Evening Star Newspaper, November 27, 1928, Page 7

“ ARTGALLERY OPEN TOMORRON NGHT Corcoran Visitors to Cast Ballots on Paintings Through Sunday. In order that persons whose work | precludes attendance during week-day gallery hours may enjoy opportunity to | vote for their favorite picture in the current eleventh biennial exhibition of cotemporary American Oil Paintings, | officials of the Corcoran Gallery of Art | announce that the tution” will be | specially opened to »w night frcm | 8 until 10:30 o | During this w and through rext Sunday all visitors may participate in the usual popular referendum, vhich has come to be 2 looked-for feature of | these biennial ‘displays. Each person | on entering the gallery .s handed a | printed ballot, on which one may indi- | cate one's favorite. Every picture in | the exhibition is eligibl> to participate | in this contest, which results in the | award of a special prize of $200 to the | winning artist. ‘This feature originated in 1916-1917 with the sixth biennial and has proven 8o successful that it has been repeated regularly since and imitated elsewhere. There has been, perhaps, as great an interest displayed in the verdict of the art-loving public as in the prizes given by the professional jury on award. In| fortified him for this new endeaver to demonstrate that in the topsy-turvy world of the comedy theater the humble, patient and good humored per- sonage of the play may be glorified, even along with the girls. In reversal of old tradition, the dancing honors of “Whoopee™ go to the women and the singing honors to the men. The production makes acknowledg- ment of indebtedn to “The Nervous Wreck,” as the suggestion of plot. The thread of story is woven into so bright- | 1y complicated a pattern that it is often in danger of becoming lost. It serves for a good, substantial character study, congenial to the Cantorian talents. Smart dialogue abounds and the music ranges, in deference to individ- | ual capabilities, from rarely beautiful themes to the blithe chatter of synco- pations. To describe at greater length the allurements of the melodious spectacle would only serve to cause disappoint- ments. Seats for the entirc week are all sold. PHILANDER JOHNSON. “The Queen’s Husband.” “The Queen’s Husband.” by Robert Emmet Sherwood, author of “The Road Rome,” opened here last night at Poli's Theater for the week. It may not be another “Road to Rome,” but at least it is a path to a pleasant evening'’s entertainment. Abandoning _historical cvents of a long dead past., Mr. Sher- wood has picked a mpythical island kingdom in the North Sea for the set- ting of his new play, and timed iy in| the present. He satirizes royalty in the twentieth century. The divine right of kings becomes under his han- dling a mere echo of the past. As the title of the play indicates, the imprint of woman on the tide of events is important. However, the queen’s husband, who happens to be the king, has the last word. He has been blessed with a wife who happens | the King his opportunity for a final cur- | the sixth exhibition Miss Lydia Field | to b2 a beautiful woman with a strong Emmet received the popular prize on | will. The king, a kindly soul with a her painting entitled “Portrait of a|passion for checquers which he exer- Child.” The winning artists and pic- | cises in secret with one of the palace tures at succeeding biennials have been | attendants, has permitted himself to be s follows: . | submerged. His wife, the queen, is the Seventh exhibition, 1919-1920—Wil- | dominating force in the kingdom. Next liam M. Paxton, “Girl Sewing.” |to the queen are the general of army Eighth exhibition, 1921-1922—William | and the prime ministe M. Paxton, “Girl Arranging Flowers.” | Reds and revolutionary activities on Ninth exhibition, 1923-1924—Sidney | the part of the Liberals shake the M. Dickinson, “Nude.” | island_ kingdom. The queen’s husband, ‘Tenth exhibition, 1926—Carl Rung- who has been a mere name, becomes fus, “The Mountaineer.” | king, not because he has any desire The public so far, while often differ- |to do so. but rather whimsically and ing widely in its majority opinion from |because it seems to be the only way the verdicts of the professional paint- out of the difficulties into which his ers, has aiways picked an admittedly more adroit advisers have plunged his good picture and this week its taste | country. The queen, by the way, has will undoubtedly again be vindicated. | AMUSEMENTS NATIONAL THEATER—“Whoopee.” ‘Theatrical terms are elastic in their | definitions. New ones are easily in- vented and this new, stupendously com- prehensive form of entertainment now showing at the National Theater needs | a name to identify it with this new world now doing things on a scale so immense that grand opera such as Eu- Tope provided for so many years dwin- dles in comparison. Its inventor de-| serves remembrance in ihe christen- | ing. A suitable thing would be to call | it “A Ziegfeld.” Yet “Ziegfeld” is rather a long word lnedl theater, where every second is val- ued. Should an abbreviation be desired. in accordance with the rapid exuberance of the creation, you may call it a “Zig.” If the term seems a shade undignified, 50 does the title “Whoopee " —which soon asserted itself as a word of respon- sibility for which a rejoicing audience gave thanks. The “Zig” placed before the public last night is a stupendous revelation. Although it adopts the method of Mo- liere in magnifying the underling for his shrewdness, it out-Wagners Wagner in the boldness of its splendor. And even the poetry of Wagner himself is hinted at in the noble scene which tells | with compelling song of the spirit pre- siding over the mountains. A “Zig” is not a play for the delight of poets and dreamers who limit them- selves to traditional romance and ignore the eternal lova of beauty. It exempli- fies the genius of the engineer who knows how to utilize ideas of mass pro- duction and expert management of co- ordinated individuals. This particular specimen is the result of art evolution under conditions which make little ac- knowledgment of obligation to the past. It is originally and positively American as base ball or the jazz orchestra. It is Eddie Cantor who represents | the under dog so well beloved in the | drama of all time. He revels through | many scenes in versatile variety. He | sings enough to give zest to the topical | song, here revived as a hilariously wel- | come influence. He dances a little in his own way, but not enough to in- | dicate a thought of rivalry to the mar- | velous grace with which he is sur- | rounded. He appears for a short time | as a black-face comedian, and adds to | his accomplishments that of the ven- | triloquist. The rest that Cantor re- cently insisted upon has, beyond doubt, gone on a visit to the United States, a la Queen Marie of Rumania, with the announced intention of raising a loan of $100,000,000 to better conditions in the kingdom. Had the queen re- mained during the attempted revolu- tion, it is quite possible that the king might not have exerted himself, or been permitted to do so. At any rate, she was away at the psychological || moment. 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The king's advisors and the queen have arranged for the marriage of the princess to a crown| prince of a neighboring country, a| dissolute fellow. ‘The princess turns to her father, who has some appreciation of the character of the proposed husband of his daugh- ter. How he extricates the princess | from the royal marriage at the eleventh | hour is nbt without its humor and gives | tain that leaves the audience smiling. if not laughing uproariously. The play. like “The Road to Rome,” has its frank lines, in which a spade is called a spade. But in these days of frankness there appears no offense to the taste in them. Roland Young has the part of the Queen’s husband. He is a lovable, har- sed little King, regarded as a fool by s wife and_his prime minister. W he rises finally to meet a s tion in the country and makes the dis- covery that, after all, he is “the state,” Mr. Young makes no effort to make his King heroic. He is whimsically hu-| morous to the end, even in the threats | of shells and bombs. He speaks his lines admirably and with an appreciation of | the finer lines of the author. Gladys Hansen is every inch the Queen. She is | particularly entertaining in a descrip- tion of her visit to America. THE PLAYERS' GUILD. The Players’ Guild of St. Patrick Parish added another laurel to their large collection last night when Father Hurney's brilliant young company in- troduced “The Jonah,” a musical farce, tora capacity audience at Carroll Hall Bright, lively, colorful, this new play from the pen of E. Lawrence Dudley is an ideal vehicle for the youthful cast. It was difficult at times to remember that this was an amateur production, after all, so atimirably did the native talents of the young folks make up for the few technical deficiencies noted. A score of solos, duets and choruscs— some original and others interpretations of popular ballads—is strewn through the three acts of “The Jonah.” The plot itself abounds in humor, most of , this arising from the complications in | which a henpecked husband finds him- self enmeshed after one night of cele- bration with his son, far from the ac- customed slippers and fireside. It is on the morning after this night of kicking over traces that the action f the play begins. A broken-down ragedian arrives at the home of the wife-ridden John Hildreth and makes him believe an astonishing version of the previous night’s adventure. Hild- reth, whose memory of the night is hazy, reluctantly accepts the tragedian’s tale as true and is forced to invite the thespian to pay @ visit at the Hildreth home. This is the beginning of a merry round of mix-ups which cannot be ad ! justed before the last few moments of l Grimes and Elaine Shimek, as the ro- the play. 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