Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1930, Page 57

Stage News and Screen and Gossip AMUSEMENT SECTION he Sunday Star, Motor, Aviation, Radio Programs | VI 2 e —— MY‘I\?NA LoY ens FRED KELSEY- " Neughty Flirt” /Ae‘iropolfi'an WASHINGTON, WALTER HUSTON- /& léraéamb/n- Columbia HOPE ON, HOPE EVER By W. H. HE theater censored itself last week and will continue its fasting and penance until Christmas evening, when the Belasco will re-illumine for Drinkwater’s English comedy, “Bird in Hand.” The National will econtinue in darkness a week long- er, when it will gird up its loins and approach the New Year fear- lessly with the Belasco pln&, “It's a Wise Child,” a sportive effort of Laurence E. Johnson, with the Belasco touch that has carried it far. Another National announce- ment that should be gratifying to play lovers is the coming of the new George Kelly play, “Philip Goes Forth,” for a four-day stay {;lor to its entry on Broadway. cidentally, “Philip Goes Forth,” is sponsored by Laurence Rivers, who is the sponsor also for “The Green Pastures,” which Washing- ton, at least that portion of it which doesn’t often get to the great metropolis, may see in time, even though it may not be for a | long time. * x x ¥ FROM the press representative of “the 12 big East Side hotels of New York,” and for the benefit | of Washingtonians who occasion- | ally are able to get over to “the city,” comes the information that | with several shows temporarily suspended and six of the less suc- cessful moved out over the week end, Broadway has been going through its usual pre-Christmas slump. So it will be seen Wash- ington is not the only metropolis where the stage is staggering and the talking screen has to hold up the drama, such as it is, that pours from the facile pen of the present day author. Under the circumstances, it doesn’t look as if a national censor is at all necessary to sit upon the deprav- ity of the stage. Rather, it would appear, is there need for the coroner. But somehow the old theater shows an inherent quality of being able to go on even after | it is dead; and it will continue probably, at least in “the sticks,” which the term for the land that lies beyond Manhattan. * ¥ % % BUT we have another theater in Washington that will never :eod a oemx.-; no matter tw}\ka‘t appens e grown-up-folks’ guyhou.lu. It is known as the unior Theater, and while there seems to be a strong suggestion of junior both in its name and those to whom it caters, it is really a professional enterprise. There, however, it severs connection with | In everything that might ly be construed as ul com- pany, for it plays in the daytime and it draws its audiences from the schools and the young folks who do believe .in ta Claus and who do not think that “Pol- anna” is mush. More than that, e Junior Theater seems to be ore. than merely and on Saturday it will give “Little Landvoigt M. Alcott first turned it loose on a simple world. These and other plays of their type have delighted juvenile audiences time out of mind and have introduced many a rising generation to the theater. It is really gratifying that they can find an audience in these days. The talking movies, which have taken their place with the juvenile taste. They would be, naturally, now that folks grow up more quickly than they used to. It's a wonderful thing to be grown up. iR UT as commendable as may be the effort of the Junior Thea- ter to keep young folks from growing old too soon, it has its rival. It has been said that the movie is a grasping octopus whose tentacles reach out where the imagination fails. Manager Hardie Meakin of the Fox Theater also is striving for a share of the patronage of the young people. So, enlisting the able co-oper- ation of Mrs. Harrlet Hawley Locher, whose later life has been largely devoted to fitting the movie to the youngster and with excellent results, is going to re- peat the experiment he made with “The Big Trail” Next Sat- urday morning at 9:30 o’clock he will tempt the Washington school children with Jackie Coogan in “Tom Sawyer,” when boys and girls will be given special price considerations. No matter by whom the enterprise may be con- ducted it is a desirable and a commendable thing to properly cater to the entertainment of children in the theater. And it is just as desirable and commend- able on the part of parents to confine the visits of their children to the theater to plays and per- formances that are free from the objections that have recently prompted a noted journalist to suggest that a national censor will be inevitable unless plays and pictures as well as theaters are purged of unwholesomeness and suggestiveness. Picknd' for Stakiom. ANH’A LOUISE has been engaged for five {eln by Radio Pictures. - nition of her talent, beauty and youth, it is announced, came with her e t She draw important parts in forth- coming productions until the w is opportune to present her as a Miss Louise entered motion pictures as a child player about 10 years ago. “The Untamed " she played with ?dlorh sw‘:l:lonnr a girl. S :’lzg received valuable stage training Walter in “Peter Ibetson.” She went to Hollywood in 1927 and ap- with the Duffy Players “Why Men “The Third * a8 feminine lead in "-Ylll:. maflelv,e‘n." Her hmt‘uhuv‘en- ment, however, is an part In “Millie” Miss Louise appeared in support of Heh‘: ‘Twelvetrees, and a ‘Women,” which has dimmed girl- ' sh eyes with mists since supporting cast including Lilyan Tash- tri Louen | Ry e S BP0 0%, younger generation, are so much | more satisfying to the morbid | LureVELEZ a7/ XALLIAM BoyD~ /n Ve Storm”. *Miss CountryCLup” Fox (§79ge) Theater ULIA PETERKIN, author of “Scar- let Sister Mary,” which Daniel Reed dramatized and which Ethel Barrymore is trying hard to make her countless New York admirers like, is sald to be writing a new story, her third full- length novel, about the Gullah Negroes. The Shuberts recently presented in Philadelphia & new musical play, called “Arms and the Maid,” with score by Jean Gilbert. It was adapted from the Olen;nn by Harry B. Smith and Harry Clarke. Showing the value of friends and pedigree in the play business, Belle Sylvia, who plays the part of Yanain in “Nina Rosa,” has just completed her first 25 years on the stage, but is de- ferring its celebration until the return of the famous diva, Melba, from Europe, because Melba is her godmother. Her godfather was the late Duke of Edin- burgh, father of the present Queen of Rumania—at least, so runs the report. Miss Sylvia herself is the daughter of Capt. Pat Malone of the 69th, if iou know what is meant, and she made her debut in Milan, Italy, quarter of a century ago. Isabel Jeans, the featured feminine in “The Man in Possession,” who crossed the seas with the play, is sald to have told a British producer very recently that she was unable to select a new American play because, while overcome with an avalanche of that article when she intimated what she was after, she could “find nothing suitable.” That's the polite way of vetoing abroad present product of American brains in the story-writing line. Billie Burke will rufigur in a new comedy by Ivor Novello, titled “The Truth Game,” in Newark, N. J., tomor- row evening. The play is sald to be e Eniun: siaets, *The payiriht an stages. wrote “Symphony ‘Two be Miss Burke's leading 3 ington will remember Billie Burke, if for no other reason, because she is Mrs. Florenz Ziegfeld, A recent reviewer of “Bird in Hand,” Drinkwater'’s comedy which opens at the Belasco Christmas evening, “All the excellent to journey to be ‘in on &' He the | mings to select D. C, SUNDAY S\CREE *BirD INHA Belasco Ann SUTER- MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1930. CHARLES ROGERS: /nasce/le rom " ALone Came youTi- | RAE- Palace Palace Stage) ND” 1! JOE E BROWN snd LAURALEE:- /y _ “Going Wikl * Baarle /[~Oox EVELYN BRENT- /roscere rom" Madoms of #he Streets” o ok iy /npersonstthe Earle Rumors. tally, he probably would not experience at any number of inns, through & whole Summer of touring, the pleasure of meeting_such a stimulating cross-sec- tion of English society, nor come upon such a significant domestic drama, as this comedy presents.” ‘Wallace Munro, the gifted herald of many choice attractions that have come to Washington in years, has fled to Minneapolis to do as much for Madge Kennedy, the charming comedienne, there and in the Bible belt. Not Really a Pet Name. HILE “sea monkey” hardly seems appropriate for a movie star's name, that is the literal translation of the monicker assumed by Maria Rosa Amida Capdevielle, the Argentine beauty known on the speaking screen as Mona Maris, who plays a leading role in “A Devil With Women.” . name bestowed “Mona” was the pet on her by her father, a landowner of Buenos Aires, because of her mis- chievous habits at an earl; h her love for the all things nautical caused her to adopt the alliter- ative “Maris” when she made her pic- A ture debut with UFA in A Since coming to this country she has been featured in three Fox Movietone offerings—“Romance of Rio Grande,” “The Arizona Kid” and “One Mad Kiss.” Her notable work in these pro- ductions caused l?mkec‘wr Irving Cum- for the feminine lead in the McLaglen vehicle. Famous Old Play. i pH 5 e f 3 -3 §3 BELASCO—“Bird in Hand.” PRDEP!CI‘IVE patrons of John Drinkwater’s brilliant comedy, “Bird in Hand,” which will be seen at the Shubert - Belasco Theater, opening Christmas night, are said to be often curious as to the significance of the title. There is really ‘nothing cryptic about it. However, it bears no refe Stage and Screen Attractions This Week On the Stage. BELASCO—“Bird in Hand,” Drinkwater comedy. (Christmas night). JUNIOR THEATER—“The Prince and the Pauper.” Tomorrow afternoon. “Little Women.” Saturday morning (at the Belasco Theater). GAYETY—“Girls in Blue” evening. Gl o'clock. Both plays will at_the Belasco Theater. While widely different in character, both pla ppeal to the mood. (burlesque). This afternoon and On the Screen. EARLE—Ann Suter, “Going Wild.” This afternoon and evening. R-K-O KEITH'S—“Madonna of the Streets.” This afternoon and evening. % RIALTO—"The Storm.” This afternoon and evening. FOX—“A Devil With Women.” This afternoon and evening. PALACE—“Along Came Youth.” This afternoon and evening. METROPOLITAN—“The Naughty Flirt.” This afternoon and evening. COLUMBIA—“Abraham Lincoln.” This afternoon and evening. Greenwich Village. CONTRIBUTION to dramatic his- tory as rare as it is invaluable has been furnished the observant reporter by C. P. Greneker, the gifted expres- slonist of the Messrs. Lee and J. J. Shu- bert. It appears too good to be submerg- ed—s0 here goes, for everybody has heard interesting things about New ‘York’s “Greenwich Village.” “Albert Hackett and Francis Good- rich, who wrote ‘Up Pops the Devil’ which is at the Masque Theater, New York, recently made an exhaustive sur- vey of life in Greenwich Village in or- der to settle all doubts about the authenticity of certain situations in their play. . “They discovered that of 50 fam- G 10 uc e stershire, one of those Dl cently with Ethel Barrymore’s who played the boy in the orphnnmmmn’i Miss Barrymore’s production of “The Kingdom of God.” The story upon the remarkable resemblance be- pranbsn moed e pHace eaanges pranl e clothes with the “Little Women” Daphne W. Wilson. he . tiny hostelry and has been run by | tru members of the same family for, nearly | Picture of a truly Am 00 years. neighborhood in the The incidents which gave Mr. Drink- | 8fter the Civil War. In it both water the inspiration for his comedy (and fiction are brought in actually occurred during one of his so- | Guaintance. journs ‘at the “Bird in Hand” Inn, &l- e though naturally he has altered the GAYETY—“Girls in Blue.” identities of the persons concerned. It is described as a vibrant, wise and mel- Eight were or had been press its. "‘Nuen. who were not 'lork!.ng:mk- ed happy and well-fed. One, par- ticular, who said that he had not work- ed for three months, asked them for change of a twenty-dollar bill. “Gin was unanimously voted the nec- tar and ambrosia of village. All had heard of chamj . Thirty peo- ple said that they had tasted it. Seven said that. they had t some when they were “Three boasted of their abilities as lease breakers. One village boasted of the fact that he never lived in one flat more than a week. He avers that he’d get_thrown out of hell. “Pifty novels were bel written. Six novels were almost ted and the rest were awaiting a divine inspiration. three rooms had fireplaces. Twen- had been used. Thirteen than a year at the London, and for over 500 perf in New York. Among the artists, chosen and di- rected by Mr. Drinkwater, who will ap- |/ here in “Bird in Hand" are Wal- Edwin, Daphne Warren , Eliot Makeham, Olga Slade, Frank Pet- ley, Johnmwnbllr\‘;:, ‘Dtn and Arthur E e wun settings were designed by Rollo Wayne. s JUNIOR THEATER—Two Plays. A GALA “time. promised Junior Theater patrons' double of-| o\ of “The Prince and‘ghe Pauper” ‘Women” during the week. Prince and the Pauper,' ty-seven smoked. and ments. mw—nmm m ‘were uncovered. * Tevealed six investigation seventeen polygons.’