Evening Star Newspaper, October 21, 1930, Page 24

I I I WAV | e ——— ALSTRALIN FLYER NEARS L FANCEE Kingsford-Smith Now Only 450 Miles From Sydney. Sets New Air Reoord. By the Associated Press. BRISBANE, Queentland, Australia, October 21.—Wing Comdr. Charles Kingsford-Smith landed his Southern Cross., Jr., here at 4:05 p.m. today and came within 450 miles of the side of | wth, his flancee, Miss Mary Powell, who lies 11l at Sydney. News of her indisposition was coms municated to the airmen, whe has flown here from England in 12 days, breaking existing records. Me seemed ‘worried, but relieved by assurances that her condition was not serious and that she hoped to greet him at the field tomorrow. ford-Smith came here in an oso-m flight today from Cloncurty, also in ensland, where he nwr mr danlnun Monday at flnwn Northern ‘Territo: He hnded at Porr. Darwin BundAy eom- plete a record-bmkln. fl ht in O | pam, aa.ys 23 hours from to Aus- lia. He will take off here at dawn tomor- row for Sydney, arriving in about five hours at the Mascot Airdrome, where 8 host of his admirers are expectéd to greet him. His flancee, 0 whom he expects to be married the last week in November, has come here from Mel« bourne, her home, for the occasioh. THE ETHEL BARRYMORE SAYS PUBLIC s IS HUNGRY FOR STAGE PLAYS e Famed Actress Has Desire to Take Part in One Talking Picture. Has Torn Up Ten Movie Con- tracts Offered Her Daugh- ter in Week. Painting the future of the American theater in words of the brightest hue, el Barrymore, star of “Scarlet Sister Mary,” which played at the Belasco Theater 1ast week, said that the stage Was a5 “grand” ahd “glorious” as ever and only half started on its never- ending career. “There is just about as much truth, I believe, in the légend of the theater hav- m“‘pun out its brief existence as there i it the Mdllfl'lrlnlflonewith Why, do you know,” m. !-rry- ted o2 and migh tem tem- perature mn she has been s ling -nn most of Week—"do know tmz in lebmh at one ol’wr,he per- Mr. Bonner- vflu—— omarly ot Washington and Poli T RN n 1§ e Was s to tell me that half a dozen pfi;fi{ lone made up the audience, he shook his head and said that no less than a thousand women MA;:':: turned away hy thAt the foad is faisheat . o Hungry for mm 'Why the people are hungry for the nmudyo! EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, v ’:\f‘"“' oS, 8 o ss ith the rest of the HN. mz'-nncmm an im- D. C ter raised hand—"1 Ililll flo oné only wheh | hour do not have to be at the merey of & little man at the controls, who with his smallest manipulation of the switch 'an blast one’s voice around the audi- torium into baritone profundity or a mpl-n’ soprano at, will.” or_other mefnbers of her family, “No, they will not come back,” she said with a half-sigh. “Thin agreeing with them too well recently welcomed mldn the ranks of her acting family, she said, “Within the past week I have torn u 10 movie con~ tracts that have been offered her!” ducu mythical réports th ETHEL BARRYMORE, s Menlml wilh what has been pre- sented roadway, they will come and be fltflfied If any klmnl has been done by lucers it is because théy have not lived up to their best tradi- tions. one's best in tne aeep- seated hlnu lands is just as important t5 the futufe of the stage as it 1s to rant and roar on Broadway " ‘Wants to Do T: Miss Barrymore, as positive as she was about the unending horizon of chu stage, also admitted that with oert technicalities surmounted, confirury !n reeem reports, she 'ould be guite will- Perplexed by Critics. oted actress, of all the subjects g, seemed perplexed only by the t have been wend- ing théir way northward concerning the bombardment bee th I became ANgry ohce when a gentle- man intérviewer misquotéd me villaine iously. 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