Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1930, Page 58

AMUSEMENTS. ariety of Attractions in The Capital Playhouses NATIONAL—“Strange Interlude.” Bugene O'Nelll's provocative 9-act drama, “Strange Interlude,” returns to the National Theater for a 6-day en- gagement commencing tomorrow eve- ning. It was Dt-ented at the National last Winter and hundreds of disap- pointed playgoers did not get to see & performance. This has been the expe- rience in a tour of the large cities of ‘the West. “Strange Interlude” not only wears the laurel wruth of the Pulitzer prize Judges as “the best play of the year 1928,” but it is now catalogued as the supreme achievement of Eugene O'Nelll, the foremost playwright. Nina Leeds, the wiul commanding figure, groping for elthzr twbldden or romance and iness. "When her aviator sweetheart (e to his death overseas, his crash seemed to re- move all chances of Nina ever being happy again. A period of nursing ‘wounded away as she learns that there is sanity in her husband's family, she turns brilliant whom to a she shocks hy her blunt proposal that he become the father of her child. But the doctor acquiesces, and from there on “Strange Interlude” had best be left for its author to tell. ‘The Theater Guild is sending the very pick of its own players headed by Elizabeth Risdon and including George Gaul, Frank Conroy, Blaine Cordner, Maud Durand, Brandon Evans, Mary Holsman, James Todd and Lester Sheehy. :;M t 5:30 pnu;?ne"ch formance a! Fie Tast time " ochock. From 7:40 to © there is a dinner intermis- Late comers are not seated until the act is over. POLI'S—"“Blossom Time.” “Blossom Time,” that perennial mu- sical romance of Pranz Schubert'’s life, with melodies adapted from his g §gs§. H iiig?s felen e 4 i e2 ) i g P14 Eg the Vercell sisters, Miriam Hoffman and her Ten uelody Maids, Norree and Mary Marlowe, Alexander Callam wiil introduce them and also will offer a vocal interlude. The Fox Orchestra this week is offer- ing & compllation of the familiar works of Pritz Kreisler, and Fox Movietone News will round out the program. 8. 8. Van_ Dine’s famous mystery story, “The Bishop Murder Case,” 2 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adaptation, will bring to the Palace this week Basil Rathbone as the scientific detective, Pnnn Vance. The cast also includes Leila Hyams, Roland Young, Alec B. Prancis and George Marion. From the very first reel, in which a " rhyme beside the body of & man with an ar- TOW nmmxh his heart, to the final se- quences, which _the mysterious " h an_ important figure, the FMue lon carries a series of thrills, or the story is said to have lost none of its mystery and suspense in its treat- ment for the screen. While the ob- server will be led to suspect one and then another of the characters involved, the nlm ‘when it reaches its mncl\l&loni Caplf land,” wmdum umiu the personal di- of Louls K. Sidney, which fea- tures Lou Holtz as master of ceremo- l-. nan presents a glittering spectacle of graceful dancers and gorgeous girls, including Dolores, Eddy and Douglas, adagio trio; the Pear] Twins, and the Chester Hale Girls in the cast. The Hearst Metrotone News, the bill. his mother, a nurse who had love with him, and his rus dramatic thrills trancing music mark the return of this thrill picture, now in sound and dialogte. released as a silent nlctun Phantom of the Opera” dous success, and now g8 thlfi Unlnrul has fitted it out with sound and dial it is claimed, ex- traordinary have been achieved picture is repeating its E‘evlmu of an opera by me ‘talking . The ust is headed by Lon Chaney songs and colorful entertainment, ltl',! ition. apedioes Island” A Western Dance ‘The Garden of Love,” “Radiana und. “The Far East” and “The Gate- way to the Habitat of the Water Nymphs” are the titles of the scenes. Jerri McCauley is the star and Charles Smith is featured. _Others include Betty Carlton, Jack Ryan, Wee Mary Clark, Prank Smith, Ward EARLE—“Sally.” All that warmth of color, beauty of and weaith of song and d.nce can do for a film is eviden ly,” in which the famous mulml layers, launches no less 32 numbers into the midst of its f her toes and the quality of In it, Marilyn assumes the derella-like waitress whose Broadway glamour and the young mm she has fallen in cast is embem:hcd by the serv- Alexander Gn&n’“ E. Brown, Sterling, Pert iton, T. Roy Barnes, Jack Duffy, Nora Lane, Maude Gordon, a bevy of beautiful dancers and & swarm of the ever-active Rasch ladles, gs FOX—*“Nix on Dames.” one “dame” can do to a couple particularly when those two ve her, is the story of “Nix on the screen attraction at the ater this week. It is a story | of acrobats and a girl who to be an acrobat, too, and human side of these thiee, And friendebigm asibitione , all sympathcti- m bit of comedy. of “Big Time". ! i . e < l?a ;s;rfi‘g ;E s i § E’ A .E g i EE— T R Y .y N © O 4 T MRS KINA TR SN TASASE (1A IS YT R S ARAR T AR AT “Phantom,” and Mary Philbin Norman Kerry have the leading ture roles. COLUMBIA—“Chasing Rainbows.” “Chasing Rainbows” is the first lllpel’ wcfim at Loew's Columbia for um Gold l‘: ?:lhkl lln:l:l: e iwyn-| Ing, fuct features the Broadway Melody,” Bessie Love lnd Charles King, together with Jack Benny, George Arthur, Polly Moran, Marie Dressler, Gwen Lee d Eddie Phillips, The story is one of backstage life, and in particular of Carlie and Terry, 'llldeviéle act partners. Unknown to tvo lhuo PALACE—"“The Bishop Murder Case.” | D. C, FEBRUARY The Moving Picture cAlbum By Robert E. Sherwood. GLANCE at prnducthn schedules of the MI porations assures us that Bmd- way's domination of Hollywood is not immediately to be re- lieved, as 50 many disgruntled natives |of Hollywood have been hoping and | logu prophesying it would be. | Of course, many of the actors, authors |and directors who were transplanted | from ‘the East to the West Coast have been shipped home, but many more have remained to flourish beneath the | California sun, and others are being persuaded to join them. The onl:| producing eomp-ny ktl:n‘t ;u tardiest in recognizing the tall ic- tures and that held out most firmly against the Broadway invasion was There was an exceflent this—United | controlled by and wnvond of tant cinema stars who had achieved fame and fortune in -uant films and were liable to lose both in the outburst f_sound. Nevertheless, more than half the names on the United Artists’ schedule for 1930 are names that suggest Broad- way rather than Hollywood. = Here are some of the principal productions in prospect: 1 Whoopee.” prepared “under the por of “Whoopee,” pre ler the per- i'};‘..'l 1-uplrvmm:" of Florenz Ziegfeld Al Jolson, In.nnmyle-mw be -written and directed by George M. Cohan. b - | tional Theater Players: Richman, in “Puttin’ on the Fannie Brice, in “Be Yourself,” and Evelyn Laye, in one or m¢re musi- cal comedies. An Irving Berlin production of the farce “Upstairs and Down” and an Arthur Hammerstein production of one called “Bride 66,” which will equipped with a musical score by Ru- dolph Priml. Lillian Gish's first venture into aud! bility will be as the star of Molnar comedy “The Swan.” Norma Talmadge in Belasco’s “Du Barry.” Colman will do “Raffles,’ Ritz"; is role in D. W. Griffith’s “Abraham Lin- coln” and Chester Morris will be simi- larly prominent in Herbert Brenon's “The Case of Sergt. Grischa.” Gloria Swanson's next will be a musi- cal comedy, “Queen Kelly,” and Dolores Del Rio's will be something called “The Bad One.” Both of these stories, pre- sumably, were written directly for the Two favorites of Washington theater- goers who have been engaged for the Spring and Summer season of the Na- Romaine Cal- lender (above) and Freddie Sherman (below). They are the first players selected by Manager Steve Cochran for his 1930 company. volves & hundred or more vocalists, dancers and players. Four new songs, creations of Harry . | Tierney, composer, have been added to the original thirteen. These are “Smitty,” “Sez You, Sez Me” and two spirituals. Two orchestras and a Navy brass band enter into the musical phase of the story. The subsidiary features include a Pitzpatrick travel talk on Spain, the Pathe News Reel and Freddy Clark and his R-K-Olians in an overture. “AROUND SOUTH AMERICA,” Today. “Around South America”'is the far- away winding trail over which E. M. Newman will conduct his fellow trav- Singer elers this afternoon at the Natlonal ‘Theater. T is Lraveltllk includes the ‘“high WI find much the same state of af- of Bouth America, bellnnln{ fairs on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer wlth @ trip through the Panama Canal, | schedule. Like United Artists, Metro- down the west coast, with visits to Peru, Bolivia and Chile, by way of the Straits of Magellan to the east coast, then north as far as the Amazon and upthnnvernmounndm Among ing reminders of the past United Artists’ schedule. is “Hell's Angels,” which started some three y is “City Lights,” hich has music and sound effects, but dialogue. is Charlie was, eonnquently. slow to call of VIQ’WM ofeourle lh.moltvrvmmt offer- s Mmuwotmmmm Broadway. Brown directed el !!pr u enjoy a combination of e, b‘npw-l beauty and u'hu will find them in usual mveltllk. Lawrence Tibbett of the Metropoli- — 3 unODeunuvmm-kehubo in ‘QUESTIONS OF THE HOUR—Friday. | th Miss Clara W. McQuown will ;;ekl talk Frida lfge]r;c: d;xppto date discuss o%fldm“f:'n*n lfllll'l.‘ o nder up European fariff walls and the com- ing economic conference, also changing dictatorships, especially Spain and Ju- goslavia. ‘These talks are given every Friday morning at 11 o'clock in the assembly room of the Washington Club, entrance 1010 Seventeenth street. Ben-Ami Lectures. Jacob Ben-Ami, stage luminary, as- a Tevue involving such veterans as ‘Weber }‘l‘nd ml:l‘ Trixie dy | sociated at present with the New York | B. De Theater, te, rises to vex their souls and to thrill and en- | ing this tertain the -udlenee, untll “happy days are here again.” The Hearst Metrotone News, the Co- lumbia Orchestra and short subjects will complete the >_program. Civic Repertory will wnlght at the Jewish Community ter on “The Stage lin and ends up among the flames of tl'qm the Inferno, Prominent in the casts of most of these Metro- cloldwyn ucnon. are Basil Rathbone, Kay Jo! Schenck, Ethelind Te which hz hll acted with considerable R-K-O KEITH'S—“Hit the Deck.” “Hit the Deck,” starring Jack Osakie and Polly Walker, holds over this week at R-K-O Keith's. Not since the Rita,” “ is been such an oumndln' Youman's ment of “Rio a vhmlre ‘The Hallelujan: Sy ally, is & " song, espec! ly, an ex- ample of what has been done in it. was a solo on the stage. In the screen version it becomes a lengthy sequence— & Negro spiritual meeting which in- BOSTON SYNPHONY A, Dr. lflcl KOUSSEVI Tuesday, ! W. F. BAKER STUDIO o Dramaties a Clasa "nd Srivete Thstraction Day and Evening Play Production Coaching Parts tudlo, 1624 B N.W. 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PRICES—Nights—50¢ te $2.50, Thurs, Mat.—50¢ to $1.50 Sat. Mat—50e (& 2. Sest Sals: Wodnesday § A. M. Bl be| musical comedy, Yo and Elliott Nugent, Rob- en“:‘mn Charles Bickford and others who have been imported lately from | the Broadway stage. The same is trye of the ml)or"y of the writers involved in the preparation of stories and dia- Oniy in the matter of directors does Hollywood seem to be triumphantly holding its own, IT may be that the Broadway legions will be routed this year and the for- mer cinema celebrities restored to emi- nence. But the probabilities are other- wise. There is, indeed, reason to believe that a great many stars will fade out permmencly within the next few Mot no need to mention any names in this connection. Most of the celebrities who are now in the legion of the condemned realized their fate without being wld ot it through the medit 1t this col g (copm.m. !mn Tossed to Fame. CATAPULTING & young woman through the air for 28 long feet of space, and without either intention or p is rather a novel start on the road to fame. True, it was sheer acci- dent that caused the catapulting, and had not a watchful teammate arrived at destination in time to pluck her out of the air before the hll there might have been unpleasant nings. However, all's well that ends well, and in the instance referred to the toss and catch opened the door to a new type of adaglo work which brought fame to Dolores, Eddy and Douglas, a stage at- traction of the week at the Palace. It all happened last Summer in a “Broadway Nights.” But uj the discovery that such a thing is possible the team, it is said, have constructed many of their most sensational feats that have brought them nation-wide fame. l Reading From Plays l JACOB BEN-AMI, Prominent in the Civic Repertory Thea- ter of New York, who will make his | only Washington appearance this yea at the Jewish Community Center 1930—PART _FOUR, HAT New York is suffering from :omethlnl diagnosed as snow-and- slush fever is apparent from the mor- bid reports of the ticket speculators, who gomplain that there are only six shows selling out nightly. They add, r, somewhat surreptitiously, that tr:?n‘:neyveothen are doing almost as well. the openings durln' the past week m?ete stand out especlally—“The Women Have Their Way,” because Eva Le lienne is sponsoring ‘Recapture,’ be. cause Preston Elur[el. the author of the season’s greatest hit, “Strictly Dis- honorable,” 'rau it, and “The Choco- self. The Civic R&per 's production of “The Womznn}llve ‘r{uelr v:;y" ll;&nd nsiderable or among the critics. cl)mo ribed as & “mild, delicately flavored and good humored “““"":f of the Quintero brothers,” who, it will be re- called are relponllble for “Papa Juan,” it seems to possess & rare degree of charm. Furthermore, it is skilifully acted, and Eva Le Gallienne, in an An- dalusian skirt, is said to be most sooth- ing to the eyes. ‘Whether it was on account of Oscar Strauss’ paternal glances from a stage box or just because the music refuses to grow old the current revival of “The Chocolate Soldler,” at the Jolson Thea- ter, is pronounced a hit. The sensation of the week in New York was Helen Howe, who with true Ruth Dtaperean finesse, proved vastly entertaining all by herself in a series of 10 monologu ‘The powers that be h:ve‘-declde‘do:dh._t the Fred Stone offering 80 “Ripples” is its name—that it will be yanked shortly from its New Haven theater and plunged dlrectli into New ‘York, without allowing Wi gtonians to get the glimpse of it. From Baltimore comes & billing on which is imprinted the announcement late Soldiers,” because of its own Neet'fi." Manager Cochran ever enrolled in AMUSEMENTS. ETTERS and telephone messages ga- | lore indicate that n large part of the population of sees “happy days ahead.” n is going to take more thln an overpowering snow- storm to make us gloomy. ‘The news that Romaine Callender has really for Manager Steve Cochran’s company at the National Theater has been joyously received. And it was to he expected, for Mr. Callender is de. ly one of the most popular a: Wlll as one of the most efficient players Summer effort to maintain interest in the legitimate theater. In every sec- tion of our city the news of his return has been gladly received, and those ‘whom it pleased have not omitted to let the fact be known. And now comes Manager Cochran's announcement that another big favorite enrolled. No less than Freddy Sherman, who came lm ynr for the first time and soon won hi Wwas every reason to bellrvn that Freddy would be a “holdout” this season, like the famous Bambino of base ball fame. smace Notes | |“Happy Days Are Coming!” But heddy likes Washington as '!ll as Wuhfl‘:gton'lll}lu hh'n it lml'l. 50, after & ter of repertory in mingham, notwithst _ml to play in Cincinnati, St. Louis and Cleveland, where he is also well known ll’ld highly a lated, he capitulated to Manager Steve and will lead the Summer forces at the National when the April showers begin to !lll, Manager Cochran says slow, signing them up with gfln mination a considering all the ul- sons pro and con, for it is his determi- nation this year to have a eoma&:: that will rank with the best, N :;bel.n: done in the way o;uncrumn. e company on somebody else's say 80, at least until Mr. Cochran has had & good look at the people reeommenm Chances have hun taken in the past, but this year all doubts are to be re- wlved .gon utlblllh’d flm fully as- advance and '.huranl'llhly Two-Sided Genius. Tucnmo the young idea how to shoot |.l perhaps, a somewhat dif- ferent task from that of teaching a pair of m!h!ul k't how to kick and other- wise to disport themselves with grace in the ch-ruu of the ballet. Bernice Lille, premiere danseuse of Even while at school Miss Lillie be- gan with child parts for the cmur vic Opera and later heuu that lustrious Inlutuuvnl leading danseuse. She has danced in various caj Mu elsewhere and m an _act in vaudeville with 10 people, !nt.lfled "An Amy of Youth.” At the time she came to “Blossom Time” she was mflfil the ensemble for vaudeville units. is is quite & record for a girl who was born in the backwoods of Tennessee less than 20 years ago. the operetta “Blossom Time,” based on !Be life and music of the great Franz Schubert, is sald to have qualified in in order to become a school teacher and, it is claimed, even now is eligible to teach in any public school in Chicago. This educational career was headed off, however, by the dis- covery of Herman Devries, music critic that De Koven's “Robin Hood” will be the first production on the Victor Her- bert festival. ‘The open| of Katharine Cornell’s new play “ nored Lady” in Buffalo evoked the following newspaper report. “Miss Cornell is a white flame in her new piece.’ She is terrific— our other command. adjectives are her Questions of the Hour in National d International Affaies iss Clara W. THE WASHINGTON CLUB Assembly Room Entrance, 1010 17th St very Friday, 11 AM. Tickets, $6.00. Single Admission, 75e. GAYETY THEATRE JACK REID JERRI McCAULEY AUTO SHOW DRAMATIC RECITAL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER Sunday Evening, Feb. 2nd; 8:15 Admission, 50c -n‘u §! 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It’s another “Rio Rita” Fitzpatrick Travel Talk laga to Madri FRED CLARK and beautiful, passionate, simple, tragic. All | mirort and journalist, that Miss Lillie was also a dancer of exceptional grace and tal- ent, and it was h his influence that she was started on the career of a dlncer. with Muriel Abbott of Chlcuo Miss Lillie was, in turn, a pupil of Ivan Tarasoff for six years and then went under the tutelage of Plerre Viad- , the Russian teacher. NATIONAL and S ln h lolnlo C Copats ul-llo- lIrul. lnnl . l t. ve., G ity ‘- 6 DAYS ONLY STARTING TOMORROW forelsn stars of first rank. Request of Thousands Whe Were le to Get Seats Before Exceptional New York Cast, including Elizabeth Risdon, George Gaul, Frank Conroy, Blaine Cordner, ndon Evans, ST AT Thiee PRioEs OVROE. 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