Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1930, Page 66

AMUSEMENTS. Flashes From the Screen NEWI Il‘ld Commen By C. E FTER viewing a number of pictures that have been changed from silent to sound—that is, sound ver- slons of the old silent films—I am Inclined to the belief that the nolse has not added to the enter- tainment value of the pictures. This 1s no slam at the talkies, for the latter are getting better and better. In most instances, we remember certain silent pictures that were especially good; we do| not want to see these pictures again; we do not believe that sound makes them more attrac- tive. The memory of them clings. “Tol’able David” was one of the best silent pictures. It almost created a sensation when it was exhibited several years ago. The movie audience hailed the young star, Richard Barthelmess—and the picture made a lasting impres- sion. The new version, accom- panied by the voices of the players, is well done, but it does not give us the feeling of satisfac- tien that we had after viewing the first release. There may be a bit of sentiment in all this, but I would prefer to see the movie magnates place their old stuff in the studio vaults, then allow it to rest there in peace. Perhaps it could be taken out, dusted off, and exhibited to our children’s chil- dren’s children as “the quaint stuff of the movie producers back in the year 1930.” Even then, I think, the first edition of “Tol’able David” will be declared a good picture. * X % % CRITICISM of a motion picture is more or less a personal opinion. As a rule, no effort is made to influence others Ry this personal opinion. It resolve\ itself down to the simple fact that one person may go into raptures over a certain product; another may dislike it heartily. The critic of the movies, however, claims to have a certain preparation for his work, a background of study for the opinions he types. He is familiar, after a fashion, with modes of production and exhibi- tion. His business is not to in- fluence others, but to give his own oglmo . He may be wrong, and often he is. Last week I voiced an opinion of “The Big Trail” and stated that it might be another “Covered Wagon,” but not nearly s0o much of a wagon. There was no effort to take away from the “bigness” of the picture. It is a mammoth thing, a picture of vast spaces, crowds of hardy pioneers, and a record of untold hardships —but we had seen “The Covered Wagon.” Therefore, the whole elaborate panorama did not thrill me as it was scheduled to do. My opinion, naturally, raised an argu- ment, and I have received some letters. Maybe I am wrong. I :fl:{t that.” But, still, I think I'm * % % x FROH the studios themselves comes word that the pro- ducers have resolved uj a minimum of dialogue in the pic- tures to come. en talk came into the movies it hit the popular fancy, but during the past year or 80 there has been a complaint that dialogue has slowed up the visual action. The pictures be- came too gabby, when they should have had action. It is said that the production heads have seen the light; that the newer stories are to be told principally for the eye, and not the ear. Perhaps, with dialogue taking a back seat, the producers will be able to de- vote more of their time toward action stories—more honest-to- ess picture entertainment. e talky drawing room play which can be a hit on the stage may be discarded. * = (CHICAGO theaters have been trying out the idea of exhibit- Ing two feature pictures on a pro- gram, instead of one. But the scheme has fizzled. Audiences did not seem to care for the plan, and, also, there were not enough {ood features on the market to ee& the theaters supplied. Two mediocre pictures did not answer the purpose; two pictures were an overdose, according to polls of the various audiences, requiring too long concentration. The cash- paying public voted for quality, not quantity. * X % % 'HE musical pictures have been having a rough road during the past year, in spite of their glorious advent into public favor. Very few of them are being planned for the months to come, and many o: the producers have dropped them altogether. However, an attempt will be made next year to bring the musical pictures back in the way of “shorts”— that is, one, two and three reel pictures. Among the producers and some of the exhibitors, there is a feeling that the musical shows were not given & fair chance; that they were thrown to the public in large, quantities. Under more appro- priate auspices, the music may go over with the fans and become a | substantial part of photoplay entertainment. * % % * COM‘!NO to personalities, many of the men and women high in the affairs of movieland speak well of the fact that Thomas Meighan is returning to the make- up box. This star dropged from public view at the height of his screen career. It seems that he simply decided to quit his job and take life easy. However, the Fox eomrlny has prevailed upon him to play for the sound pictures, and he will be flashing across the screen within a short time. Meighan is a better actor than many of the male players who are now classed as stars around the Hollywood studios. And he will not be confronted with the hard- ship of beginning at the bottom DANCING. L’EGARE ! ball care- ven_ to 'y oo S dancing, R im 5day; evening. Children its by appeintment. ibition Tap, Clos, t of the Photoplay Nelson. of the movie ladder again. will step into star roles. * ok ek 'HE R. K. O. producing organ- ization is planning quite an| extensive program for the coming months. For instance, Helen‘ Twelvetrees, Lilyan Tashman,| Robert Ames, Joan Blondell, John | Halliday and James Hall are to| have the leading roles in “Mime."] which is adapted from a novel by Donald Henderson Clarke. Then, | one of the Robert Chambers | novels, “The Common Law,” which | was a best seller several years ago, will be turned into a picture. Lily Damita, who has been llzpenrmg on the New York stage for. some time,” will be starred in “French Love,” which will be an original story. Other pictures scheduled are “Dark Flame,” from the novel of that name, and “The Registered Woman."” He * Xk % x Short Flashes. ATHAN MACHAT, who once conducted Washington’s Little ‘Theater, has succeeded in placing | Bermuda on the movie map. When he went to the island, a couple of years ago, Machat found ancient movie houses and old pictures. He took a hand in affairs, pepped things up, and now he is the movie magnate, with several theaters under his control. Mrs. H. C. Witwer, widow of the | short story writer, obtained a| court verdict a few days ago against Harold Lloyd. .She charged that one of her husband’s stories had been used, in part, for “The Freshman.” Ronald Colman’s new picture, based upon the first original screen play by Frederick Lonsdale, has been named “The Devil to Pay.” Lonsdale is well known as a writer for the stage, but he has gone movie, Willlam Farnum, one of the pioneers of the movies, has been signed by Fox to play a part in “A Connecticut Yankee,” the Will Rogers starring vehicle. It is reported that Willlam Powell will disappear from gang ictures for & while. Paramount as signed Carol Lombard, Martin | Burton and Olive Tell to appear with the star in “Ladies’ Man.” ‘The Berlin censors have finally assed “All Quiet On the Western nt” for exhibition in the thea- | ters of that city. The picture has been held up since its production in this country. According to word from Holly- wood, Art (“Whataman”) Shires, a member of the Washington base ball club, plays a big but hori- zontal part in “The Leather- pushers” for Universal. -When the picture ends in a blaze of glory, Art is on the flat of his back, hav- ing been knocked out by Kid Roberts, the hero. Then, Jim Jeftries, as referee, holds aloft the arm of the winning fighter. Art, from what we know of him, would have preferred the role of winner. Genevieve Tobin, well known to | stage audiences, has been given/| the leading female role in “Seed,” a picture taken from the novel of Charles G. Norris. Robert Milton, who directed the stage production as well as the screen version of “Outward Bound,” came to Washington for | the first showing of his picture. Mr. Milton was given a free hand in the direction of this remarkable picture, and he speaks highly of | the cast selected for the impor- tant roles. In the motion picture story it was possible to create many scenes that were entirely impossible for the stage showing. All the New York critics when the picture was given a first showing praised the screen version. Richard Cromwell, youthful star of the sound version of “Tol'able ‘David,” is visiting Washington during the coming week. He is a Californian who is visiting the East for the first time, and he plans an_ extensive sightseeing trip in and around the Capital. | been Mickey Mouse's animated cartoon St The Why of Melodrama. - ELODRAMA,” says George M. Cohan, “is one of the earliest forms of the dramatic art. Ifs pgu- larity has been continuous from ({he times of Seneca up tc¢ the present day. This is not strange, for the popular appeal of melodrama is & permanent one. It represents man's struggle for self-preservation and his fight ag. inst nature, society and environment. It moves people of all nations, of all ages, conditions, and all because it appeals to the fundamental emotions of hum.n love, hate, hope, fear, despair and Jealousy. “The villain, the villainess, as well as the hero and the heroine, each repre- sent the struggles which take place dally in real life. Thus their experi- ences arouse interest and sympathy in all classes of play patrons. Women in particular love melodrama, because it stimulates their imagination, permits them to enjoy the contemplation from a safe distance of many novel thrills that conventional soclety forbids and their own individ experience would probably never provide. “But melodrama is not a formless thing; it is highly organized, and in- cludes exactly 57 different and distinct situations which playwrights have used all over the world for ages. Most of these dramatists, however, have bullt their plays around two or three of these situations.” Three Talkie Triumphs. OUGLAS FAIRBANKS is of the opinion that to date the three tri- umphs of the talking pictures have NDAY ST antics, Will Rogers’ and Edmund Gouldlnld'.l an wit and ecting irection of “The Devil's Mickey Mouse combines sound and motion perfectly, it appears to Fair- banks, who has long admired the struc- ture of these animated cartoons. Rog- ers’ characterizations in “They had to See Paris” and “So This Is London” seemed art to Fairbanks. And Gould- ing he admired so much a talking picture director that he pi d him to direct “Reaching for the Moon,” Wil- llam_Anthony McGuire's story and Irv- ing Berlin’s first film production. i i A {/eteran of Rank. LAWRENCE MARSTON, who staged “As You Desire M also staged “Death Takes a Holiday” and has been connected with the stage for a half cen- tury as actor, director and playwright. His name has been assoclated with many of the fine things of the stage, Another Cohan . | HELEN COHAN, Daughter of George M. Cohan, who has - it role in the Fox Movietone juction of “Lightnin’,” starring Will Knows a Tl’fing or Two. BEBIDI'.S being one of the cleverest comedians on the screen, Harry Langdon is an accomplished cartoonist, an eccentric dancer, plays nine musical instruments and sings. “See America ‘Thirst,” his latest picture, is a satire om the liquor racket practiced by American gangsters. IT is notable that every film that astute young comedian Harold Lloyd largely because he has never allowed the action-continuity to lag for a minute. ‘When he made his first talkie, “Wel- come Danger,” he was confronted with & problem. Would the dialogue slow up action? He attacked this problem with his customary vigor and as a re- sult made & huge success of “Welcome Dange! As most folks will remem- ber, dialogue was not permitted to slow up action in that show. Rather action carried dialogue along with it. “Wel- has ever produced has been successful, | | Keeps Things M‘oving. come Danger” was a happy teaming of the two, with a slightly greater burden of responsibility on action than on dia- ogue. Now comes the most recent confection from the happy ha-ha house of Lloyd— “Feet First.” It is sald to be “crammed full of action.” Of course, it is a talk- ing picture, and the lines are in their proper places, funny, romantic, whim- sical lines. But the advance reports have it that the action carries the main burden of the production. Audiences will see Harold in all kinds of scrapes. He keeps things moving all the time to the accompaniment of laughter. ACK OAKIE says there are disad- vantages in having a reputation as & wise-cracker. Arriving in Hollywood three years ago with his now famous grin, Oakie made some fast returns in his verbal encounters and suddenly found him- self regarded as a wit. “Now,” he says from the deck of the battleship where scenes for “Sea % his latest picture, were being made, “I'm e 10 say somet] funny every time I open my mouth. It's impossible. ‘There aren't that many funny things. “I'm human, whether I look it or not, and my mind never gave llchtnl':s any lessons in speed. Even if I wan to, which I don’t, I couldn’t talk smart cracks all the time. “The guy with whom I try to on an ordinary conversation goes away and says ‘so that's Oakie the wise- cracker? If he's funny, Chaplin and Harold Lloyd combined. “I can’t fall in love with & girl and Has Vanquished Washin, and Begins Its Second in Alexandria, Foot of Cameron Street, Sunday Night, Nov. 30 In the Surprise Drama “‘MR. JIM BAILEY"' Good Music—-Boat Heated Tickets at De Moll’s, $1 or Phone Alex. 2302 QOakie on the Defensive. | get serious about it. She’s sure to tell | me what a great kidder I am. “If 1 start to squawk about the price 1 pay for suits, the tailor laughs, rubs his hands and says, ‘You always have to have your fun, don't you? Now that you've had your little joke, Mr. Oakie, you will admit that this suit is & great b-zlln at the price I am quoting,’ and, of course, I get stuck.” “Yet, if I do honestly try to impress the higher ups, they tell me to save my humor fr the screen.” SEATS NOW ON SALE BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL By the Famous BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA With Ite lllustrious Condustor DR. SERGE_KOUSSEVITZKY OONSTITUTION HALL FOUR PERFORMANCES PRI DEC. 2, 3, 8, 6 sololste— MYRA HESS, Pianist JOSEF HOFMANN, Pianist EFREM ZIMBALIST, Violinist » AR, WASHINGTON, R NOVikMBER 30, 1930—PART FOUR I AN ORGANIST AND HIS FAN MAIL I Otto F. Beck, the organist, gets about as much fan mail as a movie star. Here he is looking over the postman’s early morning delivery. Otto plays the organ at the Rialto Theater and for radio fans. NATIONAL—“The Apple Cart.” EW YORK'S Theater Guild an- nounces one of this theatrical season’s most_interesting ex- pectations at the National The- ater Monday night, when it will present George Bernard Shaw’s newest play, “The Apple Cart,” called “a polti- cal extravaganza,” in which Mr. Shaw is said to wreak his brilliant humor on kings, cabinets, America of today, England of tomor- row and all the gilded cabbage heads of politics in perpetuity. He twits and jokes royalty and the commoners to his heart's content. But the denoue- ment is said to re- veal that “Kings are still trumpe.” Being & law unto himself, Mr. Shaw continues his opening act for more than an hour, instead of breaking it up with intermissions. This act is said to be one of the wittiest and swiftest “the first dramatist of England” has ever devised, with his masterful quill, tech- nique and charm. “The Apple Cart,” like & good many other Shaw comedies, upsets the rules of the theater and of the drama. One of the speeches, given to the King, is & mere 2,500 words long. In the cast, selected with particular care, will be Tom Powers, Violet Kemble Cooper, Claude Rains, Ernest Cossart, Frederick Truesdell, Jane Wheatley, Eva Leonard-Boyne, Barbara Allen, W. H. Sams, John Dunn, Hannam C. Clark, George Graham, Audrey Ridgwell, George Colouris, Ferdinand Hast and others. ‘The play was staged by Philip Moeller. settings were done by Lee Simon- son. The scenes of the three acts were fashioned with the double purpose of providing colorful backgrounds and suggesting, by their restrainedly fu- turistic design, the fact that the action takes place 30 years from now. Viclet Kemble Cooper BELASCO—"“The First Mrs. Fraser.” FOR well nigh a year Grace George, the distinguished American comedi- enne, and those noted English actors, A. E. Matthews and Lawrence Gros- smith, have been delighting New York | in “The First Mrs. Fraser.” Now they Te coming to the Shubert-Belasco The- r in this comedy of divorce and re- marriage by St. John Ervine for the week commencing tomorrow night. Sel- dom are three such past masters in the alry art of comedy found in one play. “The First Mrs. Fraser” comes her- alded as humorously human and “true to smart-set soclety the world over.” It has been not only a long-run success in New York, but also in London, in Berlin and elsewhere on the Continent. Mr. Ervine, deftly combining & dozen fascinating characters with a theme that in itself makes for cross-purposes, embroiders his theme with the wit an epigram one might expect from London playwrights. His “first” and “second” Mrs. Prasers fence in deadly earnest, but with the poised shafts of irony. And there are constant chuckles in the plight of James Fraser, who comes for sympathy and understanding to his di- vorced wife, a circumstance much re- sented by her ardent sultor, Philip Logan, In key with this well groomed slice of modern life is the scenery designed by Livingston Platt. Miss George her- self staged the play. Her company, in addition to Mr, Matthews and Mr. QGrossmith, includes Phyllis Elgar, Ruth Benson Blinn, Charles Campbell, May Marshall and Lowell Gilmore. GAYETY—' **QUGAR BABIE! of success, is at the Gayety this week and, it is claimed, its latest ven- ture will be found about everything neediul to keep up with the spirit of the day, including beauty, with colorful scenes laid in Hungary, Holland and Spain, and a helpful aggregation of comedians, singers and dancers, headed by Harry (Hello Jake) Fields, support- ed by Patricia Kelly, Flossie DeVere and Chuck Callahan, who are featured, and Rags Ragland, Charles Hendricks, Lew ~ JANET RICHARDS Public Questions: Home and Foreign Every Monday Morning at 10:45 Masonic Temple 18th . and N. Y. Ave. ADMISSION e _and_§1 T. Arthur Smith o PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA Stokowski—Conductors—Gabrilowitsch DEC. 9, 8:45 CONSTITYTION Leopold Stokowski, Conducting bt T S Y TOX "cnorals snd’ Furue in D mine T Shs B The Misses ROSE and OTTILIE SUTRO TWO PIANO RECITAL BT DEC. 7, 8:30 MATTEoN® 1 Boxes, $35. $30, §28 ellowshis in Memory of jumiston in the MecDowell Col- ony at Peterboro. The Famous Italian Conductor TOSCANINI o the series of the PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY By o Tickste :f&m':é-qu e i«-LHu" LeRoy, Fay Tunis, Babe Abbott and Gary & Evans, with an expertly trained, good-looking chorus. SHOW BOAT—Tonight. 'AMES ADAMS' Floating Theater (the original S8how Boat), is an- nounced at the Cameron street wharf in Alexandria with “Mr. Jim Balley,” a drama redolent of the type used at the turn of the century. The opening week's attraction, “Gossip,” closed last night and records show the bulk of the patronage was fiom Washington. “Jim Balley” opens tonight, at 8:30 o'clock, ‘This is the first time in Washington’s history that a real show boat has ap- peared in its environs, and the novelty has registered quickly. Aboard, for Instance, are four of the original people whom Edna Ferber fashioned as char- acters for her novel, “Show Boa These are Charles Hunter and Beulah Ad: originals of Ravenell and Mag- |nolis; Pop Nell, as himself, and Joe Gunn, the Old Man River who still maintains he can sniff. the air and tell the boat management if the weather will be fair at the next river landing. Alexandria busses leave Twelfth and the Avenue direct for the wharf and return to Washington after the show. JANET RICHARDS—Tomorrow. 188 JANET RICHARDS at her lec- ture at 10:45 tomorrow morning at the Masonic Temple, Thirteenth street and New York avenue, on Public Questions: Home and Foreign, will re- view the outstanding developments in the world’s work for the pest week, including & lst of & few of the things which as & Nation, despite hard times, we have to be thankful for. She will also define the cryptic phrase “imple- menting the Pact” and state why, all foreign rumors to the contrary, ‘im- plementing’ is improbable, Relations | between Italy and Russia also will be reviewed with a statement concerning the latest regulations promulgated by the United States Treasury to halt dumping in this countiy of convict- made goods from Soviet Russia. CURRENT TOPICS—Tuesday. MR!. GEORGETTE RASS HOW- ARD'S Tuesday morning Current topics talk at the Carlton Hotel at 11 | o'clock, which will include a resume of the week's happenings, both home and abroad, will be supplemented by a re- view of some of the recent books which will be given by Mrs. George F. Bow- erman. A discussion of “Some Good Books for Children” will precede Mrs. Bowerman's review. CLARA W. McQUOWN~—Friday. Priday morning at 11 o'clock Miss Clara W. McQuqwn will give her third talk for this Winter on questions of the hour in national and international af- fairs, in the assembly room of the Washington Club, 1010 Seventeenth street, She will discuss several questions of local importance and matters relative to Congress. Under foreign affairs, her principal subjects will be “The Soviet Economic Policy” and “The Growing ?tl prochement Between Russia and aly.” Miss McQuown's talks, which are open to the public, are interpretative reviews of political questions and are given every Friday morning. . o Theater Guild g’fomh. ECEMBER will be “Theater Guild month” at the National Theater, with George Bernard Shaw's “The Ap- ple Cart,” week beginning Monday, De- cember 1; the premiere of “In the Meantime,” the week of the 8th and “Garrick Galeties” the week of the 15th. And the National promises a joyous attraction for the Yuletide season in David Belasco’s sparkling comedy, “It's & Wise Child,” which will come for the week beginning Monday, December 29. This engagement will have double in- terest for Washington playgoers as fea- tured in the cast is Minor Watson, the first and one of the most popular of the National Theater Players' leading men. TOMORROW SHUBERT LASC MGMT. LEE AND J. J. SHUBERT *Roar China tComlng -v- has come through Maurice Colbourne, the New York Theater Guild’s most recent emissary to this city and well known in London and New York for his acting, writing and lecturing, etc., that the guild is laying plans for something of an innovation. It seems that, due to the difficuities of scenic effects and arrangements, the guild production of “Roar China” cur- rently running in New York and sched- uled for an appearance here at the National Theater will not come here after all. Not wishing to disappoint its pa- trons, the guild is trying to manipulate the highly original scheme of luring entire audiences from this and other cities—such as Boston—to its portais instead of transplanting the porials here and there. 1In other words, if plans become realities, the guild will provide a special train, at specially re- duced prices and a special perform- ance for Washingtonians who are will- ing to travel up to New York. Called— mayhap—the “guild express,” hardy theatricalites from this town may cruise to New York instead of to the National and witness what seems to be one of the hits of the current sea- This is, of course, still a nebulous dream, but, as in such ventures as nine hours of “Strange Interlude” and other side-steppings, the gulld may find itself again at the head of a real innovation. vl Native Songs Heard. ‘“THE LOVE FLOWER" is the theme song of “The Love Trader,” Tif- fany's drama of New England love in the South Seas. It was written by Jimmy Guest and Richard Coburn, Co- burn, the lyricist, has had his name AMUSEMENTS. Washington’s Players What Various Dramatic Organizations Are Doing and Propose to Do. G. W. U. TROUBADOURS. HE Troubadours of George Wash- ington University will present their 1930 song and dance re- vue, “Good Graclous, Godfrey,” Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, December 11, 12 and 13, at the city’s community playhouse, McKinley Auditorium, Second and T streets north- east, with a cast of principals and chorus including outstanding members of last year's show and a goodly num- ber of promising new players recently added to this talented club of college studengs. The experienced guiding hand of Denis E. Connell will coach the show, Ralph Kennedy will be its managing director, and Carl Wells is this year's musical director, with Dorothy Schenc- ken as the dance director. ‘The book of “Good Graclous, God- frey” 1is by Frank Westbrook and Fletcher Henderson, and the musical numbers are the work of Bill Jemison, Carl Wells and others. Up-to-date songs and dances will be a big feature of this year's show, which also will be m?‘t, ‘Pea‘:“ All in the ty students will appear e piece, including 36 lovely girls. Cos- tumes are under the direction of Kitty Boykin and settings under John Red- mond’s artistic direction. SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY, Tomorrow. 'HE Skakespeare Society meets tomor- associated with songs of the past few years, including “Avalon” and “Whis- ring.” pering. “The Love Flower” is sung to Leatrice Joy by Roland Drew, who portrays the characf of an island prince and adds & plea<i@® baritone voice to his histri- onic abJlty. Noah B!e'r{, whose bass voice has been an unknown asset during the years of silent pictures, and who has become popular since the advent of the mkms pletures, sings an old sailor ditty dug up by Harold Shumate, the story’s author, while on a preliminary trip to the South Seas. The title is “Only One Port for a Sailor.” Sol Hooppi, whose Hawaiian orchestra is known all over the country, provides native songs and furnishes the native musicians and singers to interpret them. In the picture there were over 50 native singers and musicians. Jimmy Spencer, another well known in the fleld of South Sea Island music, functions with & group of musiclans in providing mu- sical backgrounds for the romantic love sequences. = Finding New Faces. “THE most tremendous and difficult task of the casting directors of Hollywood is that of finding new faces for the screen,” according to Fred Datig, who acts in that capacity for Paramount. “The Paramount studio casting offices are open from 11 until 1 every day for the interviewing of new personalities, to assist us in this unending search,” he explains. “Between 100 and 150 persons are registered daily as a result of these interviews. Out of this aston- ishing number of new applicants an av- erage of one a month is given a test for & small part or a possible contract. “A casting director is required to see every new and important film re- leased that’ he may be thoroughly versed in the appearance of new and interesting players. This picture show scouting demands five nights out of every week.” . Youngest Director.” RAY McCAREY, who recently com- pleted “Kid the Kidder,” his second Pathe comedy, is the youngest film di- rector in Hollywood. In spite of his age and the fact that he has been in the industry only five years, young McCarey earned his promotion when Pathe offi- clals elevated him from an assistant director to a full-fledged megaphone wielder. His first assignment on the lot was to assist Joseph Santley with the direc- tion of “Swing High,” Pathe's circus special, for which he also wrote the continuity. Subsequently he worked with Russell Mack on Eddie Quillan's| recent Producunn. “Night Hawk.” It was following this that Pathe execu- tives realized that young McCarey pos- sessed ability of no mean grade. Hence he was awarded his initial dlrenwrlll' assignment, “Two Plus Fours,” the first of & serles of college comedies. g o Judith Anderson. JD‘DH‘H ANDERSON, who appears in Pirandello’s “As You Desire Me,” learned her art in the grinding mill of stock compantes, She_first attracted the attention of New York playgoers as Jessie Weston in “Peter Weston,” with the late Frank Keenan, and became a star through her acting in “Cobra.” Born in South Australia, she made her debut in Sydney, and after her success in America she returned to her native country to appear in “Cobra,” “Tea for Three” and “The Green Hat.” THE PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY 1600 21st Street Announces that for the pleas- ure and convenience of the visitors to the opening of the Corcoran Biennial Exhibition its hours on Sunday, November 30th, will be from 11 am. to 6 pm. 0 MATINEES At 2:30 Thuri., 2. Tow evening in the auditorium of the Corcoran Art Gallery. Parts or acts 3 and 4 of “As You Like It” arranged in three scenes, will be pre- sented. The first scene is between Rosalind, disguised as a youth, played by Olyve Barbee, and Celie, In the guise of a shepherdess, by Irma Vaughan. The second scene includes Audrey, by Ada Louise Townsend; Willlam, by T. Weed Harvey, and Touchstone, the Jester, by Clarence E. Ruebsam, who has enacted the same role in every one of the soclety’s 16 full productions of the play. In the third scene Rosalind and Celia appear with Oliver, played by Thomas M. Cahill. The arrange- ment and direction is by Mabel Owens Wilcox. “MOTHER MINE.” Grace Church (Georgetown) Dramatic Club will present & three- act play entitled “Mother Mine” De- cember 11 and 12 at the parish hall on Wisconsin avenue, The play is a simple, moving story of a woman's love for humanity. The main character, Mrs. Peasley, “Mother Mine,” is played by Miss Edith L. Allnutt. The cast also includes Mrs. E. Huntington, Mrs. P. Nelson, Miss P. Bayley, Miss Virginia Ballinger, Miss Helen Malone and Messrs. T. C. - den, Marvin Smith, Py E. Nelson and ‘W. A. Mattice. Famed as a THAT airy persifiage and gayety which makes Lawrence Grossmith a delight on the stage doesn’t come off with his grease paint. It's in his blood. It's a traditional her in his well known English theatrical family which, for five generations, has played a great part in the annals of the Lon- shares honors with and A. E. Matthews in . John Ervine's sparkl! comedy, “The First Mrs. Fraser,” at the Belasco this week. He's been playing Philip Logan, the “first” Mrs. Fraser's charm- ingly persistent suitor, for well nigh a year in New Work. “It is a delightful comedy role,” ‘he says. Mr. Grossmith gravely avows that the rose is his favorite flower, yellow his favorite color, that he thinks first- class tennis the most thrilling sport to watch, that golf is the game he himself plays oftenest. Exercise in the city? Er—a daily walk. “How long a walk, Mr. Grossmith?” “As far as the nearest taxi’ Regarding the Grossmith habit of going on the stage, it was begun by a couple of his great-great uncles around the year 1800. Lawrence’s grandfather, the first George Grossmith of the Lon- don stage, gave readings of Dickens’ works. Lawrence's father, the second George, made the name famous by creating leading roles in “The Trial by Jury.” “The Sorcerer”‘and one after another the rest of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. For 12 years, under one management, George Grossmith reigned at the Savoy Theater. “I was, of course,” says Lawrence Grossmith, “brought up on talk of the theater., I cannot remember a single week of the theatrical season in Lon- don when there was not some Gros- smith on the London stage.” ‘The third' George Grossmith is Lawrence’s elder brother, known on both sides of the Atlantic and at pres- ent in Hollywood. Lawrence, too, has been borrowed from the London stage : for many a New York production. He | appeared in America first with Lily FRITZ KREISLE CONSTITUTION HALL, DEC. 11, 4:30 Bepts; Mrs. Greene's Concer Bureau, 1300 @ 6493, Questions of the Hour National and International Afairs Miss Clara W. McQuown THE WASHINGTON CLUB Assembly Room Entrance. 1010 17th St. Every Friday, 1l AM. Single Admission, i5¢ Georgette Ross Howard Current Topics Becond Season Carlton Hotel, Tues. Mornings 11 to 12 NA WED. MAT., 760 to 72222, % NIGHTS, $1.00 2. Presents (The First Production of the Second First Tour in America of the Staged by PHILIP MOELLER TOM PowERg ERNEST COSSART EVA LEONARD-BOYNE BARBARA JOHN DUNN HANNAM AUDREY RIDGWELL GEORGE an DY, THE PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS ‘n‘ll "Pheir Subserivtion Series GEORGE M AE.MATTHEWS & LAWRENCE Entire New York Cast Direct from 358 Performances .- NEXT WEEK—MAN, ORDERS NOW—SFATS WED, GILBERT MILLER Presetts HELEN PETTICOAT INFLUENCE A New Comedy by NEIL GRANT —wiTH HENRY STEPHENSON RS. FRASER” “at Playhouse, New York HAYES “I think ‘The Apple Cart’ about SUBSCRIBE Mise Lucile now at the NATIONAL THEATRE, THE APPLE seats for Theatre Guild productions. BEGINNING! MONDAY NEXT WEEK' TION Phones Natl. 0501 and o AT, MAT:, 75e to §2.50 THE THEATRE GUILD, INC, Luttrell of the Theatre Guild's subs ART, IN' dne will de immediate attention to subseriptions Comedian. Langtry in “The Degenerates,” return- ed again in 1907 to join Lew Pields in “About Town,” and at that time put his young brother-in-law on the stage and invented his nom de theater, Ver- non Castle. Directed the Play. OBERT MILTON, director of “Out- ward Bound,” the Warner Bros. and Vitaphone picture at the Metropolitan, was associated with Richard Mansfield, Charles Frohman, Mrs. Fiske and George Arliss as director prior to his associa- tion with the screen. He was born in Russia and first stud- fed to become a priest of the Greek Church. His father being a well known stage director, however, it was natural, after receiving his education in St Petersburg and Munich, to turn to the theater, and he was given a small role under his father at the Royal Theater. m then on the stage superseded the church in the young man’s aspirations. ‘Then followed many years of acting and directing. ‘Three years ago Mr. Milton began his directorial work for the cinema. His first was “The Wild Party,” followed by “Charming Sinners,” “The Dummy" and “Behind the Make-up.” Warner Bros. then signed him to make “Out- ward Bound,” from the pen of Sutton Vrlolae.czee-u;. he wn‘su;:muhr with the production, having directed prigi- nal stage production of the play in America, with much the same cast as appears in the cinema DANCE RECITAL LISA GARDINER Formerly of Paviows Ballet Sunday, 30 ‘WARDMAN PARK THEATER i . $1.50, $1. Wi G Bi ot SO GAYETY THEATER Washington’s Only Burlesque Theater “The Singing Horsemen of the Steppes” DON COSSACK RUSSIAN MALE CHORUS OF 36 SERGE JAROFF, Conductor CONSTITUTION HALL, Saturday Eve., December 13, 8:30 Seats now sale, Mrs. Wilson- Greenes Bureau, Droop’s, 0 Dis. «<Poli Teg out e Yo Sty ] to ‘handie’ the fraffic end line af the AL OPENING MONDAY 3. AND WEEK Washington Subseribtion Newest Play by the World’s Greatest Dramatist BERNARD SHAW'S THE APPLE CART Settings by LEE SIMONSON With the Following Cast Composed of the Theatre Guild Acting Company VIOLET KEMBLE COOPER CLAUDE RAINS FREDERICK TRUESDELL JANI WHEATLEY ALLEN SAMS COULOURIS others the best play Shaw ever wrote.” —Gilbert K. Chesterton AND SAVE! G E GRAHAM FERDINAND HAST ription offices 1s Telsphons National a?u,'.aanl-‘ il e piessad 10 reseios ang. give for aeries of five productions. MATS. WED. & SAT. @ THE THEATRE GUILD, Inc., will present its seco ond subscriptio nd production of the sec- n season in Washington, IN THE MEANTIME, by Claire and Paul Sifton. The play deals with contemporary American life and is int erpreted by an excellent cast which includes GLENN ANDERS, LINDA WATKINS, FREDERICK PERRY, JOSE- PHINE HULL, HAROLD VERMILYEAI‘ HARRIET MacG STRANGE and many others. IBBON, ROBER It has been staged by PHILIP MOELLER and the settings are by WOODMAN THOMPSON. @ Because each of the Washington during the Guild’s productions in past season has enjoyed excellent patronage, we urge that advance orders be made BY MALL Orch.y $3.00; Bb;‘ $2.50, at. 2d Bal., Staged MR. MILLER nmn—uukhuu.nm" and Saturday Matiness, 30o to 82.50 immediately. Nights: , $2.00 & $1.50; 2d Bal., Orch, $2.00; Bal.,, $2.00, 75c. Sat. Mat,, Orch.,, , $2.00 $1.50 & $1.00; 2d Bal., 75¢. ALE AT THE BOX OFFICE