Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1930, Page 51

. Theater, Screen and Music Part 4—14 Pages i Joun BARRYMORE a7d LORETTAYOUNG | > The Msr /romfi/amé/eys “Earle | 5 A I f o TR B & LUPE VELEZ and JOHN HOLLAND -/ “Ue/l Harbor* NATIONAL PLAYERS—“It Pays to Advertise.” GREAT deal will be heard this ‘week about “13 Soap—Unlucky for Dirt” when the National A us _Roi Cooper M 9 %0 Advertise” —about love and high- re business tactics. Some years m“wu broad travesty on the blind- ness of youth and love ran a whole year in New York and later toured the road for two seasons. Since it expounds the the- ory that you must tell the world in big letters that you have a better mouse trap than your sompetitor, its remise is as true Soday as it was when Mergue and his collaborator first thought of it. Froddie Sherm: tly own s m office, with the injunction to stay out. Dad is a wealthy manufacturer of soap, and Rodney, in a spirit of retal- fation and also to demonstrate that he ean win out on “his own,” determines to compete with his father by manu- facturing soap from a recipe he discov- ers in an old cook-book. Enters a discouraged press agent, who 4s watching his theater attraction cough its way to a thorough demise, and tells Rodney of the possibilities of soap and of how it must be extolled. He is en- as publicity man. So emphatic is message to the countless Garcias ‘who wash their necks that both he and Rodney forget in their enthusiasm that have forgotten to manufacture soap. A plea to Rodney's father to help them out uncovers a sudden furn in the affairs of Rodney, the pretty secretary and Dad that the sudience hasn’t suspected. GAYETY—"Heart Charmers.” ’ week’s attraction at the Gayety I4" Theater brings one of the popular and talented actresses of the Mutual Circuit, Hinda Wassau, heading the rast of “Heart Charmers.” There are HinpA 5’ \X/ASSAU- Gaye‘f‘y Doris Birmingham, Hap Freyer and Charlie Goldie. From the rise of the first curtain to the grand finale, it is promised there is fast-moving fun, new jokes and songs and dances that are as new as today's paper. “Heart Charmers” is' built around a situation to produce the m: um amount of laughs. A large chorus also is shown to advantage in clever costumes and each member is well drilled in every bit of - “business” connected with the production. BUSINESS HIGH OPERETTA— Thursday. 'OUTH AMERICAN revolutionists, an American aviator, a millionaire and & number of gay and beautiful senoritas all appear in the operetta “Riding Down the Sky,” music by Geoffrey O'Hara and libretto by Geoffrey Mor- gan, to be presented by the combined glee clubs of Business High School Thursday and Friday evenings in the Business High School Auditorium. The action of this two-act operetta, which has its setting in a small South American republic, centers around the chance meeting of the President's daughter and an American aviator who, because of engine trouble, has made & forced landing in Santa Delmonica. ‘The cast includes Richard Bird, as the aviator; Betty Thompson, & charm- ing senorita; Hortense Coffren, another senortia; Joe Weitz, a mining expert; Richard Babcock, comical deck hand; Melville Stuart, the President of Santa Delmonica; Ralph Cole, the villain; Marguerite Giovanetti, his wife; Doro- thy Beall and Marion Olivet, chaperons; Richard Hazelton and Benjamin Saun- ders, elderly. sultors; Charles Spates, a sergeant of Marines, and Charles Furr, stupid bodyguard. The operetta will be followed by a dance in the school gymnasium. “DULCY”—At Eastern High, Thursday. EAST!'RN HIGH SCHOOL will close its dramatic activities for this year with the presentation of “Dulcy,” the well known comedy by George 8. Kauf- man and Mare Connelly, in the school -\ilndlmrlum, ‘Thursday and Friday eve- nings. Gwenllian Davis is cast as Dulcinea, with Robert McCormick as Gordon Smith, and Newell Lusby in the part of sRoger Forbes. Others Include, Edwin Rice, Mildred Duryee, Helen Ma; e, Ruth Heintz, Charles Jarrett, Robert Bobby Nissen, gh"a‘ pl:.y:':- ;‘:‘m burlesque rank Grant, Charles Wise, Charles Chamber- » AMUSEMENT SECTION he Sunday Star, WASHINGTON, DL i, AGIE and SCREE e 6 B POND - e e//‘}\/g'l‘réjpgli‘fan Outdoor Amusements SEASIDE PARK OPENS. SIABIDE PARK enters the list of amusement playgrounds for the ‘Washington public Saturday, when the attractive new resor: at Chesapeake Beach, replacing the old boardwalk and concessions, opens its gates to receive those who are seeking recreation and outdoor entertainment. The new park will feature among its many attractions a cool dance hall with the pepplest kind of jazz music by Joe Lorell and his famous orchestra, which has been engaged for the entire Sum- mer, and a large outdoor swimming pool, which will provide healthful recreation for bathers and will accom- modate 12,000 dally. Numerous concessions productive of laughs and thrills will be available and everything has been done to make the environment pleasing. The Chesapeake Beach Railway is co-operating by the introduction of new motive power and equipment, as well as improved train service. Ample parking space will be available for motorists. GLEN ECHO PARK. LEN ECHO PARK has fully opened up and its 1930 season is now hit~ tng on all cylinders. The park is rich in_Spring beauty and dips and thrills galore are delighting record-breaking crowds, Washingtonians, young and old, never seem to tire of the old faithfuls, the coaster, derby racer, caterpillar, car- rousel, old mill, aeroplane swing, Whip, skooter, penny arcade and midway, and this season the new glant ferris wheel. An electric fountain, displays the beauty of the colorful sprays every night. In the ball room, McWilliams and his merry band of 11 play for the dancers every week night from 8:30 until 11:30 —_— lain, John thews, Gilbert Lee, Mal- colm Shutters and Billy Jones. This production is largely student managed with Gwenllian Davis and Robert McCormick acting as student directors. Miss Marie Didden is faculty director, assisted by Miss Gertrude Wal- ter, Miss Roser Arnold, Miss Ruth Culbertson, Miss Esther Jonas and.Mrs. Catherine Anderson. HOFFMAN-HOSKINS REVUE FRID. THE Hoffman-Hoskins School prom- ises 175 of the cutest kids you ever saw in the 1930 Re¥iew at the Belasco Theater, May 23 and 24, planned to cover 12 different countries to allow the remarkable children to display their versatility, in georgeous settings and costumes that will compare with those in any Broadway production. Little Lillian Hoffman, juniar mem- bu: of the firm, will g:nee o };:;‘ ::-l;y s in two solo numbers, - able dances of every discription will be on the program. The professional finish and smooth- ness of the Hoffman-Hoskins Reviews seem to take them out of the amateur class ‘The end of the show where the kids all wear their Camp H and H uniforms will give an idea of the wonderful Summer they expect to spend at Mr, and Mrs. Hoffman’s new camp. o'clock. Adequate car service to and from the park is a noticeable feature, and motorists find the reduced parking charge for the protected area is an inducement. CHAPEL POINT. MONG the outdoor recreations this Summer will be the trip to Chapel Point on the steamer City of Washing- ton, or the “moonlight sail” down the Potomac_on the same vessel, both scheduled for every evening except Tuesday. As Washingtonians well know, the ride down the Potomac alone is well worth while. The stop at Chapel Point adds to it opportunity for salt-water bathing, with up-to-date bath - house accommodations, diving boards, water slides and the water wheel to _add to the fun for the bathers. The picnic grounds, 20 acres of rolling greensward, afford shady groves, with tables for all. Riding, boating, athletics and dancing are other recreations at Chapel Point. ‘The steamer leaves Washington at 9 am. and Chapel Point about 3:30 p.m. for Washington, reaching home about 7 or 7:30- p.m. The boat has a dance floor that will accommodate 300 couples and music is provided for dancing, s large orthophonic Victrola by day and an_orchestra at night. ‘The boat leaves for the “moonlight trip” at 8:30 pm MARSHALL HALL. ANOTHER of Washingtén's favorite outdoor amusement_resorts will be in full blast, beginning Decoration day, 1t i8 none other than famous old Marshali Hall, and, as usual, it will be reached by the almost equally famous steamer Charles Macalester, which will make three trips daily, at 10 am., 2:30 and 6:30 pm. The ride on the Potomac down to the hall is just long enough to be enoyable, and at the historic grounds much fun and recreation is provided for old and young. Plenty of good tables and benches and a view of the sweeping Potomac make an ideal setting for an all-day picnic. At the hall also will be found shooting galleries, bowling, the meroplane swing, roller coasters, etc., with free dancing in the open-air pavilion. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1930. Motor, Aviation and Radio News JACK OAKIE snZ ELMAONEAL; ADELAIDE ~/n*Rramount on Porsde-" HiBBARD- A d=", fo%fik)fi; Naflonal Columbia s T CHARLES FARRELL a7 JANET GAYNOR - In “High Society Bluves* Fox The Play Jurors Decide By Percy Hammond HE conferences of the Pulitzer play jurors this Spring were marked by none of the perplexi- ties common to deliberation. Mr. Connelly’s “The Green Pastures” 50 far excelled the product of his fellow dramatists that it had no rival for the red feather; and the award was made without the wrinkling of a brow. Clay- ton Hamilton, & judge whose standards are skylike, says that the committee had no second choice. And he adds that “The Green Pastures” is s0 soaring an entertainment that it comes near to being “the best American drama of all time.” Mr, Hamilton voices the enthu- siasm of his tribunal by describing the lay as “simple, gentle, kindly, tender, umorous, compassionate, wise, beauti- ful, exalting and exulting.” In this he songfully echoes the opin- on o:dlll who h.l.t':'}:cu:an "‘l:hlb proceedings upon the stage the characters and episodes of Writ in terms at once comic and rev- erent, orthodox and heretical, primitive and modern. God Almighty is to be seen in “The Green Pastures” as he is imag- ined to be in the minds of his Negro children. A fatherly Negro in a Prince Albert coat, he superintends life upon “the meanest of the planets,” giving ad- monitions to Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the drunken Noah and his flock, Moses and the stubborn Pharaoh. His vate secretary is Gabriel, a Harlem ornblower, and the dark angels who clean his office wear aprons upon their wings to protect them from dust. As the Creator, descending to earth to look things over, passes two pickaninies, playing behind a bush, he says: “Howdy, children?” And they reply, “We'se O. K. Lord” Being the offspring of a rigorous Presbyterian family, I was reared in the bellef that God was a cross and fear- some old fellow, with long whiskers, seated in flowing robes upon a golden throne and addicted to scolding those Stage and Screen Attractions This Week NATIONAL PLAYERS—“It Pays to Advertise,” comedy. morrow evening. GAYETY—"“Heart Charmers,” burlesque. evening. To- This afternoon and METROPOLITAN—“The Big Pond.” This afternoon and evening. PALACE—“Hell Harbor.” evening. FOX—“High Society Blue.” evening. R-K-O KEITH'S—"“The Cuckoos.” This afternoon and evening. EARLE—“The Man From Blankley’s.” This afternoon and This afternoon and evening. COLUMBIA—“Paramount on Parade.” This afternoon and This afternoon and evening. LITTLE—"Damaged Souls.” For women only., This afternoon and evening. who displeased Him. So I trembled the other night when at the celestial fish- fry in “The Green Pastures” the mas- ter of ceremonies cried, “Gangway for the Lord God Jehovah!” But God en- tered in the person of & Negro actor, & friendly chap of 60 or thereabouts, whose demeanor was so noble and agree- able that I knew at once that the Book of Genesis would not be insulted. “The Green Pastures” stops just this side of the New Testament. Mr. Hamilton declares the play to be “astonishing in its originality,” not aware, perhaps, that it was suggested to Mr. Connelly by a book. Years ago Irvin Cobb discovered that Mr, Bradford's volume was a masterplece, fascinated his neighbors in East Hampton, L. I, by reading from its contents, impersonating its characters with a holy sense of humor and with a Negro accent. “The Green Pastures” is not original, it is more than that. It is a best play be- cause it is a “good show,” new, honest, refreshing, thoughtful and perfectly acted by the colored folks. Better, I be- lieve, than Mr. Barry’s cryptic “Hotel Universe,” its only opponent in the co test, except Mrs. Barnes' popular e: hibition, “Dishonored Lady,” aided by | Miss Katherine Cornell. * k¥ ‘OHN GOLDEN'S “Ada Beats the Drum” is an uphill comedy about some hayrick Americans who go to France in search of culture. Their ex- periences, hard by the Pryenees, are troublesome, and they start back home, convinced that the U. S. A. is God's country, after all. Miss Mary Boland as an ambitious American matron, struggling for happiness in Europe, is loud’and energetic in an old-fashioned way. She shovels her impersonation from stage to audience, throwing it into our faces for fear that otherwise we will not know what she- and the author mean. “Ada Beats the Drum” is not one of Mr. Golden's triumphs and I shall not recommend it to those search of pleasure. e e L L. Belasco Bestows Rewards. ONG life seems to have its rewards, even in the case of a play. David Belasco, for instance, still smiling over the success of “It's a Wise Child,” has arranged a series of gifts for the vari- ous members of the company, so that each may have a permanent souvenir of the engagement. gifts inciude the following: To Mildred McCoy, a rare old edition of “Romeo and Juliet”; to Leila Bennett, & first edition of “The Life of Duse”; Sidney Toler will receive Burns Mantle's new book on the theater, Helen Lowell wins the “Life of Sarah Bernhard.” And the rest of the cast get souvenirs ranging from “Napoleon” to Masefield’s “Poems” and Walcott’s “Modern Alr- eraft.” } 1 BeTTyComrsons %e C}ar‘ Rialto JOHNNY HARROW Bcoadway \WHEELER- ond [ROBERT \W/OOLSEY> /4 METROPOLITAN—“The Big Pond.” AURICE CHEVALIER, famous French comedian, is the pic- ture star this week at Warner Bros. Metropolitan Theater in his newest romantic comedy drama, “The Big Pond,” a lively and exciting story of French temperament, - love, chewing gum and big business. ‘The one and only Chevalier, with his dazzling style of singing, his thor- oughly likeable per- d his for light comedy is 4 happily fitted in the prineipal role, with Claudette Colbert, well known American stage and screen star, opposite. In this picture Chevaller is the guide to a wealthy party of Americans wufln’r Europe, and falls in love with the heiress of the party. To cure the girl of her affection for him, her father and her other suitor trap him into accept- ing a job in the father's American chewing gum factory. Given the work of three men, bullied, framed and har- rassed at every step, he still manages to win the friendship of his fellow workmen with his humorous songs and, in the end, wins both love and fortune in a surprising manner. “The Big Pond” introduced Cheva- lier's latest melodious song hits. As- sisting him and Miss Colbert in the cast are George Barbler, Marion Bal- lou, Andree Corday, Frank Lyon, Nat Pendleton and Elaine Koch. The pic- Msurice Chevalier. in | ture was adapted from the stage play by George Middleton and A. E. Thomas. Hobart Henley directed it. Additlonal features include Vitaphone varieties, The Evening Star-Universal newsreel, with Graham McNamee newscasting current events. 'RIALTO—"“The Ciar of Broadway.” ETTY COMPSON and Johnny Har- Ton show thelr friends how to really | 0¥, With make love in the current attraction at the Rialto Theater. “The Czar of Broadway,” in which Miss Compson is once again cast in a character role which first made her famous on the screen, a lorelel of the upper under- world, who gives many men her smile, but only one man her heart. ‘The story concerns a man who by sheer nerve has absolute command of the men and women who mrhy outside the law n)on’ the world's greatest street. He is undbyhun?mmd The Cuckoos: RKO.Keiths also hated by hundreds. But his - sonal safety is assured because he m’:- s hat o Hal e destrren By an e 3] be des only person he loves, g ofJot]l:: ‘Wray is seen in the “czar.” He alre tracted wide attention wlfl:?l.lm ous work as “Himmelstoss” in the screen version of “All Quiet on the Western Pront.” Others in the cast are Claude Allister, Wilbur Mack, King Baggot and Edmund Breese. The ple- ture was directed by James picture, Love” and “That Homstead of Mine.” e, s comedy and s Shrtoam toReiaE , y and a cartoon, together with numbers by the Rialto Orche complete the bill. o PALACE—“Hell Harbor.” 'HE flery Lupe Velez is featured this week at Loew’s Palace in “Hell Har- bor,” the romance of an isle in the Caribbean Sea. Jean Hersholt and Johtn Holland appear in the supporting cast. “Hell Harbor” is a tale of pirate-] traders, modern incarnations of !I": and Silver, who seek to steal not only gold but ladies’ hearts. On the island of Madre, where a polyglot crowd makes life swift'and interesting, Anits is with & treacherous father who wm to marry her to a shrewd trader. Out of the frustration of her father's at- tempt to marry her to Horngold the trader comes Anita’s true love—a lover, Americn and bold. On the stage Benny Davis, i redit. inciading: “Morgle s credit, inclue ! bye Broadway, Hello Pnn“g ing,” “Carolina Moon,” “Oh, I Miss You Tonight” *“A Smile Wil Go a Long, Long Way,” is in a Capi Theater, New ‘Broadway Stars hits “Good~ sents Bemis and Brown, Addie Seman, the human top; the Cali- fornia Crooners, golden voices from the' Golden On'fho: g‘l‘u Heller, the little e voice; J Thelma White and Alfred m"“ .avu. e e ne News, Charles Gaige at the PRlont Geer comp! et