Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1930, Page 12

A—12 THE EVENI NG _STA F RIDAY, MAY 2, 1930. URUGUAY PPOSES RELLOGG TRBATY Latin Delegate Tells League His Country Would Reject Inclusive Pact. B the Associated Press. GENEVA, Switzerland, May 2.—Dif- ferences of opinion regarding the Kel- logg pact among Latin American coun- tries were paraded today before the League of Nations' committee on arbi- tration and security, which is consid- ering a general treaty for strengthen- ing the means for preventing war. During a discussion of the British proposal that terms of the treaty recog- nize the existence and value of the Kellogg pact, the Uruguayan represen- tative, A. de Castro, intimated that he regarded the British proposal as an at- tempt to force the Kellogg pact upon ‘Uruguay. Senor de Castro announced that his country would not be a party to the | proposed treaty if it mentioned the Kellogg pact. Uruguay and five other League mem- bers and Brazil are not signatories to | the pact, he reminded the committee. MANY REHEARSING FOR MUSIC WEEK| Adjacent Towns Contributing to Special Program for Presenta- tion at Epiphany Church. The Washington Choral Festival As- sociation announces that singers from every section of the city and even ad- Jacent towns in Virginia have been re- hearsing steadily and are co-ordinating in the final rehearsals this week and early next week for the special music week program to be presented Saturday, May 10, in Epiphany Church. Dr. Frederick Alexander, guest con- ductor for the occasion, states that the last two rehearsals will be held Monday at 7:30 pm. at_the Thomson Com- munity Center, Twelfth and L streets northwest, and Wednesday, May 7, also at 7:30 pm, in Epiphany Episcopal Church. The chorus of more than 200 singers will follow its program of Saturday afternoon with a program on Mother’s day, May 11, in the ampitheater at Arlington, which is to be filmed by a sound picture concern, later to be re- | leased on Memorial day all over the | country. The executive board of the associa- tion is headed by Dr. H. Barrett Learn- ed, with representative vice presidents in Mrs. Joseph M. Stoddard, president of the D. C. Federation of Music Clubs; Dr. J. R. Duffield of the Church Music Council of Washington, and Miss Grace Dunham Guest of the Friends of Music in the Library of Congress. COL. ROBINSON ORDERED HOME FOR RETIREMENT Army Transfers Include Sending of Capt. Rutten From District to San Francisco. Col. James P. Robinson, Field Artil- lery, at Governors Island, N. Y. has been ordered to his home to await re- tirement June 5; Maj. W. B. Scobey, Infantry, has been transferred from Fort Benning, Ga., to Milwaukee, Wis.; Maj. L. W. Webb, jr, Medical Corps, from Fort Hamilton, N. Y., to Chicago; Capt. H. G. Culton, Cavalry, from Ha- wali to Fort Meade, S. Dak.; Capt. P. T. Heffner, jr., Infantry, from Fort Sam Houston, Tex., to the Clemson Agricultural College at Clemson, S. C.; Capt. I. E. 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Dealers QUART BAYERSON OIL WORKS vou need oil, and At the Better 3m COLUMBIA 5228 | goes LONDON MAKES Alabama Actress-Daughter Like Stranger to U. S. Attests Quality of Her Histrionic Wares. BY WARD MOREHOUSE. Special Dispatch to The Star. LONDON, May 2.—Bankhead’s the name, given name, Tallulah. is her home town, bama. The theater's her profession and for seven years she's been ex- patriate. She’s been the subject of encomium and innuendo; she’s had enormous success and whooping fail- ure. In this land of the quid, the guinea and the bob, all persons who know that there's such a thing as the theater know also that there's an actress named Tallulah. Britain has the Thames, Blackfriars Bridge, the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, the annual daffodil show—and it has Tal- ulah. Miss Bankhead, then, is news. Hence my letters and telegrams to her and finally my visit to No. 1 Farm street. Some say that Tailulah has acting greatness; others vow that she isn't an actress at all, and never could be. Perhaps there aren't any great actresses in the present-day English theater. But I'm not concerned here with Tallulah's histrionic genius, or her lack of it. I'm merely striving to submit a consideration of her as a force in London's theatricals. And in the provinces. (Don't forget the provinces, God forbid.) And if she isn't a force T'd like to know who is. Gallery Girls’ Worship. For 10 days now I've been in Lon- don and I've heard her name men- tioned by everybody from the dowager marchioness of something or other to the motorman of a two-decker tram- way car; I saw a chockful gallery sit tense and breathless as she went her tragic way through Dumas’ stagy and mechanical “La Dame Aux Camelias,” and I watched the gallery girls cheer her, claw st her, stampede her, as she fought her way to her waiting car after a Thursday matinee. Policemen had to_clear the sidewalk. Did the gallery girls behave in this fashion when Duse played the Dumas tragedy? Or when Bernhardt played it? And now “La Dame Aux Camelias” is being taken to the provinces. Those poor provindes! It's when Tallulah -touring, I'm told, that the good people of this nation lose every shred of their Anglo-Saxon poise. They for- get all else in their hysteria to see an Alabama girl act a play, be it new or old, good or bad. Why, this season they’ll probably forget the hard things they've been saying about Mr. Snowden and his budget. Fifteen plays Tallulah's done since she quit New York and Broadway and the Algonquin and fled to London on the Thames (on money borrowed from a friend of Representative Bankhead, her father), after appearing in New York in a forgotten something by Mar- tin Brown called “The Exciters.” Fif- teen plays she’s performed before the audiences of Britain. The producers here have had a habit of tossing to her pleces in which the first ladies of the American stage have done with success in New York. Her 15 London Plays. “This'll be great for Tallulah in Lon- don,” has been the way they put it, and our’ Miss Bankhead—obediently at times, rebelliously at others—has come before her British public in “They |Knew What They Wanted” (perhaps | her biggest achievement), in Katharine Cornell's role of Iris March in “The SUDDEN Beaver Board posed of fibers, old rooms Garrick Theater Patronage| WARM FRIEND ! OF MISS TALLULAH BANKHEAD Representative’s ' TALLULAH BANKHEAD. Green Hat” and in Jeanne Eagels’ role in “Her Cardboard Lover,” and also in a terrible thing or two, such as “The Garden of Eden” It was Tallulah's London run in this piece-of-nothing- at-all that caused Arch Selwyn to won- der if it might go in New York. It didn’t. Fifteen plays in these seven years and her wages have skyrocketed from her $250 a week to her present wage, $1,500 a week, so I'm told. For seven years she's been in the public prints—theater pages, front pages, and often to_her tremendous displeasure. She has been tormented by newspapers for inter- views, If they haven't been doing it this season they did in other seasons. She has been interviewed on every sub- ject from Florentine sculpture to the locust war in Egypt. She's indorsed, or has been asked to indorse, every con- celvable skin food and vanishing cream and toilet soap. She's had more full- page magazine portraits than any actress you can name. And I shouldn’t be surprised if I were told that she has had the honor of dining with their majesties at Windsor Castle. Her Farm Street Home. And all of this for the slim and blond and ripe-mouthed Tallulah, daughter of a Representative. Tallulah of Alabama. So, whether she's an actress or not | I'm not attempting here to say. 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Farm street, if you know London geography—two taxi drivers didn’t—is just off Berkeley Square and that, as you certainly know by now, is as glamorous a spot as you can find in all England. Ask Leslie Howard. Trim and Two-Storied. Anyway, Farm street is a crooked lit- tle alley that runs for a short distance, | gets all confused, rams its head against a brick wall and expires. Few struc- tures grace its rather ridiculous length and the home of Tallulah Bankhead is the most impressive of these. Impres- sive is hardly correct. It is & squat, compact, two-story bungalow. aloof ai seemingly unneighborly. ~Certainly a hand-picked dwelling if there ever was one. A white plaster or stone facade, a black and polished doorway with brass trimmings and which is just six inches off the ground. ‘The Bankhead girl, it seems, wearied of London's hotels, even the de luxe ones, and in the desired Berkeley Square district she found a garage. This she bought and converted it into the singu- larly attractive home that she now occu- ples. Her name's in the phone book, and everything, but when London calls, as London does, it's John, her butler, who answers; or Mrs. Lock, her secre- tary; or Edith, the maid. Or, in an emergency, Fenn, her chauffeur, or Mary, her cook. The fair Tallulah, flouncing on a divan, proffered the cocktail shaker but declined one for herself. “Not drinking now.” she said. “Used to, when I was in New York and lived at the Algon- quin. I smoke, though.” She spoke with a rush of words, pil- ing them onto each other. Now and then she was dreamily preoccupied. But, for the most part, as she coiled herself about her pillows, she was terse, staceato, alert and enormously remind- ful of Jeanne Eagels. Undressed Just Twice. “New York?” She paused. to play there again. and excited about it, but I live here, you see. 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And let them say I undress in tha This Dumas thing couldn’t make money in London, but in the provinces we might. % .. My age? I'm 28 Bomn in Jasper. That's 40 miles from Bir- mingham. I came out in Washington and that bored me, so I decided on the stage. My first New York job was in ‘39 East’ by Rachel Crothers, Won- derful woman, that Crothers. First London_play, ‘The Dancers’ . . . In love? I'm not. If I do fall in love T'll get married. What else? Have another cocktail? That's a good one John makes, brandy and gin. . . . How's New York? How's Kit Cornell and Ethel Barrymore and dear Leslie Howard? . . . Well, for sake, make me out s having a sense of humor and don't make a fool of me.” A decorous_tap upon the door. was John. “Madame,” he said, 130" Tallulah, whose accent is British, whose manner is often regal, smiled and flipped her cigarette into the open grate. “And one more thing,” she said, “my next play in London will be ‘Let Us Be Gay.’ . . . Come along. 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