Evening Star Newspaper, November 11, 1930, Page 20

SOCIETY __(Continued From Third Page. ‘Washington as the guest of Mrs. John J. McMahon at her home on Military rod and during that time was con- tertained. Mrs. McMahon en- tea for her and Mrs. Robert W. Hunter gave a luncheom for her at the Kenwood Club. Mrs. Eu- Hill was also a luncheon hostess Mrs. Gourdin, entertaining her in the charming home of her r, Mr. Ralph Hill in Georgetown. . Gourdin is spending a few days with Col. and Mrs. Willlam F. Bugbee, formerly in command of the Charles- ton Army post. Mrs. James E. Jones of Youngstown, Ohio, formerly of Washington, will ar- rive tomorrow motning to be the guest for the remainder of the week of her uncle and aunt, Lieut. Comdr. Willlam Neal Cogan, U. 8. N,, retired, and Mrs. in their apartment in the Impe- rial. Mrs, Jones will come from Nor- folk, where she has been for a fortnight with her son-in-law and dayghter, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Richardson, jr., the latter formerly Miss Ruth Jones, a. debutante in Washington a few sed- s0ns ago. Mrs. Jones will join Mr. Jones, now financial advisor to the City of Youngs stown, the first of next week. The marriage of Miss Edith Carleton of Keene, N. H. to Mr. Thaddeus O. Johnson of Hinsdale, N. H., took place last Sunday afternoon at the home of the bride's brother at 30 Channing street northwest, with the Rev. Moses R, Lovell officiating. Miss Carleton has been critic teacher | of English and history at the Keene Normal School i ew Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Linden King of Tekoma Park, Md., afnounce the en- ment of their daughter, Miss e Isabelle King to Mr. De Knickerbocker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Knickerbocker of 2525 Ontario road. No date has been set for the wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Martin Savage returned to their apartment, at 2400 Sixteenth street, from New York, marriage of their nephew, Mr. David Gregg, 3d, to Miss Virginia Wykoff, which took place Thursday. Mrs. Harry Jacobs of Chicago, who has been visiting her cousin, Miss Kath- M. Ellis, will return to Chicago . Mrs. Jacobs has many friends ‘Washington, where she frequently visited as Miss Mae Shaw before her to the late Mr. Jacobs. She came to Washington from Edenton, From the Front Row Reviews and News of Washington's Theaters. George M. Cohan and Play Please National Audience. ITH all salls set and colors flying, George Cohan moves on below the hori- zon before the show ends. He has refused to disclose whether the Vagabond he repre- stnts is & Junatic or just another character adrift in a queer world. A back view of his disappearing figure ts only an actor who has spent sugges a few hours entertaining himself with the eccentricities of life and has decided that the incident is closed. “The Tavern,” at the National ‘Theater this week is that kind of a play —fo _crazy that it has sometimes been accepted as reality. There is the storm, for instance. It has the ear- marks of a real storm, except that the thun- “der sounds like part of a salvo for a public offi- clal. Every shot seems to be a The light- however, is subdued. The really interest- ing thing about the storm is that it has long periods of tranquillity, but starts up when- ever anybody goes out or comes in through the door. An accommodat- ing storm it is, permitting people on the stage to talk in the intervals. It is burlesque melodrama. George Cohan invented it. ‘When some odd person begins an indignant speech or engages in some suspicious pantomime, everybody else on the stage lines up in rigid forma- tion, motionless and inevitably speechless. It is the mark of com- plete attention. It becomes a picture George M. Cohan. ics at Maryland University; Miss Alice Edwards, national secretary of the American Home Economics Association; Miss Helen Atwater, editor of the Jour- nal of Home Economics; Miss Ashen- felter, director of Government cafe- terias; Miss Mary A. Lindsley, manager of the Dodge Hotel; Miss Bulman, di- rector of dietitians of ‘the Veterans' Bureau; Miss A. M. Jones, dietitian at Emergency Hospital, and Miss Rowena and a Symbol of the development of a thrilling ploté It is melodramatic George The star of the show himself pla; the fool, while observing all the in- teresting things that are to be dis- covered in the characters about him. Then he tells them all that he has observed. He relieves the tension by engaging in one of those round and round and round dances and singing a few lines about fixing things “with cially the person who is described by Mr. Cohan as ‘“the governor's charming daughter.” She responds with the exclamation, “Isn't he the quaintest thing!” Such accom- paniments of & grotesque story are unique. George Cohan invented them. Surprising things happen at the tavern. Each new character gives a turn to the plot. They all do unin- telligent things. Mr. Cohan's inter- view with the governor's daughter, disclosing an impressive influence over the feminine mind, is the high point of polite burlesque. The hired man is a comic strip, and the as- sociate lunatic, an exotic young woman, is a most serious example of the type tI en in screams of emotion d Inspires screams of laughter. There is a plot, of course, but what impressed the first-night audience was George Cohan, actor, playwright and producer. There are several things that the world loves, and one of them is a good actor who doesn't care what happens. Another is a good company that is satisfled with the play so long as it is well olled and moves merrily along. George Cohan provided both. His welcome was like the complete approval that is in evidence on the last night of a popular stock company that will not be back for another year. It was just Geoge Cohan laughing at the world, and especially at its melo- drama. His associate players are Theodore Newton, Kathleen Niday, Robert Middlemass, Joseph Allen, Shirley Grey, Willlam Jeffrey, Eda von Buelow, Isabel Baring, Willis Claire, Edward F. Nannery, Manuel Durante, Dan Carey, Curtis Karpe and Joseph Mackin-Nerney. D.cC.c. “Marseilles” Seems to Lack Something. 'HE ol’ devil sea, blinking merrily at the Bar de la Marine, in sorrow fathers, mothers and daughters that remained. All this, of which one was made conscious along about the second act, was the pattern of the latest Marcel Pagnol drama—reported to be the toast of the Parisian theatrical season—which, however, flying un- der local colors seemed a trifie un- invigorating in its narration. It seemed, too, that if the second act could have been telescoped into the first—ditto the third—there might have emerged a drama of the stuff that one imagines Marseille is made of. s it was, the characters that in- habited the shambling docks of this seaport town talked endlessly about ships and shoes and sealing wax, breathed with mild excitement over the strange conduct of Marius, the boy with the sea bug, and waxed more eloquent over cards and their impolite selves than over the drama LANSBURGH’S o ond its head by whispering of his heart that he wanted to to sea, somehow the thunderbolt fect that one expected, after all gnl perambulations, didn't come With the explosion of the main idea, however, the subject that re- mained was turned into nomethm that made up for the unwarran shortcoming o fthe reést. The se: quences dealing with the three-col nered battle between Marius, the girl and the sea, exceptionally dri matic in thought and deed, moved on to an ending full of Pathos and genuine emotton, in which the girl, having loved not wisely, but too well, handed Marius over to the watchful waves, after telling him with sup- posed honesty that she had intended to marry her aged admirer all along. There was in the long run—and it was a very long run—however, much to be thankful for in this play. Thé theme was nice, when it showed its teeth: the setting attractive, and the actors so skilled that many of the 7th, 8th and E Sts.—NAtional 9800 No Connection With Any Other Washington Store which they did w All of which sent the Noted Physicist Stricken. PASADENA, Callf., November 11 (). —Dr. Robert A. Millikan, noted physi- cist, was confined to his home last night suffering from a slight attack of bronchitis. 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