Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1931, Page 49

AMUSEMENTS. “GREEN GROW THE LILACS.” HE Theater Guild will present Lynn - | scenery but life, ning January 19, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday. The play | 88! takes its name from the cowboy song of the same title. It is a high, dramatic picture of life in Oklahoma in the days when it was emerging from the status of the Indian territory—a folk piece, robust and filled with action. It is directed by Herbert J. Biberman, who recently produced “Roar China!” for the guild in New York, and the settings are by Raymond Sovey, known to guild audiences for his settings in “Meteor.” Many folk songs and ballads are in- troduced in_the play, among them “Weavilly Wheat,” “Custer’s Last Charge,” “When I Was Young and Single,” “Way Out in Idyho” and *“Green Grow the Lilacs.” Lynn Riggs, the author, llthoughi born in Claremore, Okla., has been able | to view his people abjectlvely at least | to the point of setting down something | of their community life, which existed | in fine fashion until oil began to super- | sede cowpunching and ranching as the State’s occupation. The play proper is concerned with a romance and the hearty attitude which residents of the | cow country had toward it. | For the leading roles the Theater | Guild will present June Walker, Helen Westley, Richard Hale, Franchot Tone, Lee Strasberg, Ruth Chorpenning, Tex | Cooper, Woodward Ritter and others. There are also 14 cowboys who were engaged for the play at the close of the rodeo season at Madison Square | Garden, New York. “IN THE BEST OF FAMILIES.” “IN THE BEST OF FAMILIES,” a drawing room farce-comedy by Anita Hart and Maurice Braddell, will be presented by Thomas Kilpatrick at the Shubert-Belosco Theater Monday night, January 19. This will mark the first presentation of the play on any stage, and after a week's engagement in_ Washington it will go directly to New York. Among_those in the excellent cast are Charles Richman, Grace Filkins, Flor- ence Edney, Johnnie Brewer, Mn.l'y Ar- benz, David Morris, Derek Fairman, Kendall Foster, Enid Romany, Perry Norman, Marion Waring-Manley and Leonore Sorsby. comedy was staged by Jo Graham. RUSSIAN CONCERT, BAI. MASQUE, January 2 ONE of the unique lnd uulcrful events of the season will be the Russian Concert and Bal Masque to be given at the Willard Hotel in the big ball room January 24 for the joint benefit of St. Alexander's Russian Orthodox Church in this city and the unemployed workers of Washington. Artists from the Russian Imperial Theater and from the Chicago and Metropolitan Opera Cos. will appear in the concert, which will take place at 8:30 p.m. and be followed at 10:30 p.m. by the Bal Masque, which will have as its outstanding feature a number of valuable prizes for original costumes; music by the Meyer Davis Orchestra and attactive dance events. Tickefs may be had at T. Arthur Smith's Bureau, 1330 G street, and at the Willard News Stand. NEWMAN TRAVELTALKS, January 25. E M. NEWMAN, travel talker, has * chosen for this, his twenty-second series of Traveltalks, the high spots of Europe. “Seeing Europe” the journey is called and it will be presented at the National Theater on the five con- secutive Sunday afternoons, beginning January 25, as follows: Beeing Italy, - | interest, including not In the ever popular Switzerland all the thrills in the Alps have been com- bined with a picture story of intense magnificent hard, rdous at times, struggling against nature and again in complzte harmony with the mighty forces concentrated in the val- leys and on the heights. In “La Vie de Paris,” the French Capital will be presented in a new manner. Life in the great city in many phases will show the difference between what is obvious to the casual stranger and the other side, often hidden from the visitor by a rigid code of social traditions. No city has been less un- derstood and no metropolis has met with greater favor. iere are two sides to life in Paris and Mr. Newman has made an effort in this Traveltalk to present both. ARTS CLUB, BAL BOHEME. 'HE Excculive Commilteé for the 1931 Bal Boheme of the Arts Club of Washington has announced that tickets and boxes for this outstanding art event of the season, to be held at the Willard, Monday evening, February 2, are now available at the Arts Club, 2015 Eye street. This year's colorful event will have as its locale, the “Court of King Looney, XIII, on the Moon,” with a wealth of imaginative possibilities as to costumes and settings and the “Masque of the Planets' as the feature of the occasion. Fancy dress is required at the Bal Boheme, but not for the Bal theme. Prizes will be awarded, as is the custom of the Arts Club. “JIMMY LAKE'S SHOW.” IMMY LAKE in person heads the cast at the Gayety Theater, where he is also the manager, in the show next week, called “Jimmy Lake's Own Show.” Lillian Dixon, the feminine The chorus group is a good-looking con- tingent of young women, whcse numer- ous appearances during the action are madz in bewitching costuming of the , latest bizarre mode. The fans will count on Jimmy Lake for the fun. He is one of the “old school” who has kept a little bit ahead of the times in his art. DOWNING RECITAL, January 18. ATRICIA DOWNING, director of dramatics at the Washington Col- lege of Music, will give a dramatic re- cital at the college Sunday, January 18, at 4 p.m. Miss Downing is a reader and imper- sonator of ability and was for a num- ber of years on the professional stage when she turned her talents to the writing and producing of radio plays along with her directing. Appearing with Miss Downing will be Frederic Angelo Behart, French pianist, and Mrs. Gideon A. Lyon, who will give a short talk on “The Importance of the Speaking Voice.” RUTH DRAPER, January 26. RUTH DRAPER returns to Washing- ton after an absence of several years to present her original character sketches for one week at the Shubert- Belasco Theater January 26. Draper will play six evening perform- ances and two matinees, on Thursday and Saturday. Her programs will contain several sketches new to Washington, which have been acclaimed both here and abroad as some of her finest mono- logues, the most important of which being the now famous “Three Women and Mr. Clifford,” a trilogy which takes at_least one hour to perform. Miss Draper is at present playing at the Comedy Theater in New York prior to her engagement here. “A WONDERFUL NIGHT.” WONDERFUL NIGHT,” an Eng- lish version of Johann Strauss’ celebrated operetta “Die FI never previously done in this mntry, will be presented here by the Messrs. liar | Shubert at the Belasco Theater for one places of interest, the story covers the recently devastated earthquaks City with exclusive pictures of the Pope, views of the art treasures, the famous Sistine Chapel and the Raphael | Loggla and Stanza. In Pompeli, Mr. Newman photographed the recently un- earthed streets, gardens and buildings. Another fascinating feature is a visit to San Marino, the world's smallest and oldest republic. Thanks to Mussolini, Rome now presents new sights to de- light the visitor. Mr. Newman spent several days in the picturesque Bavarian village of Oberam- mergau and photographed the many changes -cund-m upon the presenta-| tion of the “Passion Play.” A new| theater has been bullt—the costumes, | colorings and ensembles are so much | better than ever before, making the play | more impressive and the players more | convincing. week beginning March 8. This famous German opera is from the great Waltz King, who wrote, among 500 other compositions, the “Blue Danube Waltz” It was produced abroad in popular form last year by Max Reinhardt. More recently the New York and Chicago. It was necessary to build a huge elec- trically-driven revolving stage to pre- sent the 14 elaborate scenes without causing long delays for scene changes. The action on the revolving stage now passes from one scene to another before the eyes of the audience without the lowering of the curtain nor the inter- ruption of the play. This same stu- pendous production is promised here. In the large cast will be Archie Leach, Clifford Newdahl, Joseph Lertora, Robert Pitkin, Bernard Gorcey, Harold Conkling, Gladys Baxter, Greta Alpeter, Sallie Stembler, Mary Wilkins and a | Chester Hale ballet. Vagaries of a Playwright. SKDNEY R. BUCHMAN, a new author, has contributed two plays this sea- son to the American stage, one of them Robert V. Newman's production of | “Storm Song,” starring PFrancine Lar- ‘ rimore. It was Fannie Hurst, if recollection serves, who declared when she saw her | first play bloom briefly and unprofitably in N-w York some seasons ago !hat‘ she came out of the experience with a g;ll knowledge—that the drama was leed the “wordless drama.” Young Buchman, however, who lm 27, learned the lesson apparently before | he gave a play to an audience. Ver- bosity in writing and thinking is & bane | to him. His play “This One Man," produced recently in New York with Paul Muni as star, and his character- drama of the sea, “Storm Song” to open here at the National Theater, have been fast-moving vehicles. Something of his laconicism in writing has com- | municated itself to his habits of con- versation. For instance, his treatise on writers and women—in 40 words: “It is diffi- | cult for a writing man to give attention | to women, because he finds himself | using them for sounding-boards, and | becomes distressed because he feels dis- | honest in what can be only an, appare! reciprocal tenderness and affection.” ‘There's quite a thought in that, but Mr. Buchman is young, scrupuiously | honest, and—has never been in love. After a college career at University of Minnesota and Columbia he was lven funds by his father to study in rope, polnting toward writing. = 1n I'um he met women of all nations, had he been sufficiently important ‘warrant inf by the ship- pews covey on his return he would, he | iys, have answered the stock question: t do you think of American | women?” by unnq m thought ‘they were grand. So, Aside from his mh] studies in lxm- and Paris, the folks at home could ve received very little comfort from man’s correspondence. He led in Europe, preparing. He told | his father bountiful that he was going | 8o write, but writing could be done only sfter 1 lon; 'nn OovIngG’ STAN '“‘lflill | to Hollvwood,” he said. tensely. His promise was that he was confident in his self-development. “1 did not live in the artists’ quarters. I did not set myself up as a playwright, a movelist or a_short-story writer. | disciplined myself by personal contacts | T did not enjoy, because no discipline is too severe in getting ready to write,” he explained. “The severest discipline I've had is dealing with the pel‘lonllnlu of the theater, the hardest profession, bar none, in the world. Out of it has come magnificent training and experience, which is knowledge.” After another year in Enmre he came | home to spend & year in Holl “I retarded myself four years 1n going “It is almost impossible to write for pictures, be- cause a man cannot give enough of himself. Some one always interferes to arrest the job of giving honest self- expression.” In California he spent a year in writ- | ing a novel. Then he returned to New | York and wrote three plays in four months and began a fourth. Two of the three have been produced this sea- son. The third, “Acute Triangle,” been purchased by Mr. Newmln, pro- ducer of “Storm Song.” The fourth play he didn’t finish because the sub- | Ject, he says, was the most interesting he had tackled and he wasn't old enough to write it. | | lead, is a beauty who sings and dances. Shuberts presented it in lavish style in | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON IERR D 0, Thursday Ambassador 18th & Columbis Bd. Vivienne Segal in “Viennese Nights.” Vivienna Hiener H® s Gonstgnce, “Holi Vitaphone_subject. nnett in Consignce Bennett oliday.” Vitaphone_subject. JANUARY 11, 1931—PART FOUR. Saturday e ami A 0“0 ‘William Haines p “Remgte Control.” 624 B 8t. NE. Williary Haines Chester_Morris “Remote Control.” * t Whispers. ‘Comedy. TVifaphone subject. Chester Morris TR Grace _Moore Lady's Morais. Vhamine Morieei. James Hall in oo Fhird “Alafin Comedy. " Berial t. ‘Warner Baxter in “Renegades.” Cartson. Dark. A:hlon ndon. Va. “The Vasabond Kine."” Dennis King Ken Maynard in “Lucky Larkin.” arbara St k fp “Fox Follles of 1930.” P Locked " Boor ? PR George O'Brien Reginald Denny in “Roush, Romance." lam ' Batan. William Haines Av.]on “Remgte Control." 8612 Conn. Ave. Vitaphore_subject. William Haines in “Remgte Contro Vitaphone subject. Mpric Dressler and Beery in e and Bl Marie Drngiler and Wallace y in and_ Bl Comeds. ‘Vitaphone. W-m-r Baxter \ Helen Twelvetrees Richard Oromwell in ‘2> David.” “The Cat Creeps” Vitaphone subject. et A'e. Gl‘lll d Wil ‘Ronu Lightnin’ Vitaphone Sublect. Comedy. Vitaphone. William Tisines in Remgte Control. WIIl” Rogers 4 uummn' o Vil mne_subject wmum Haines in ‘Remo! 0 Cun trol.” Clnoon el Hamilton in Helen 1 Widow "From "“The c.;"c&:‘p'._-! Dark. .v-:k r')-m cumedy Rews. EEpeE R Serioon. Harry Tangdon | “See Ame st “Grumpy. Comedy. _Serial Winnie Lightner in “Lite of the Party.” Uth & N.C. Ave. S.E. .Winnie Lightaer in Do hia Arite Pare " the Party.e ADC Angs Pase “Little M:clflenl Batsy Ruth Mller and Aghn, Moggrmick in, Edw. Everets ‘Horto \de Open." Mgrilyn Miller and John Gilvert a Leila’ Hyams i “gutihy." “Way_for 'a_Sailor.” Neil Hamilton in “The Widow From #30." Central Evelyn Brent “The Silver Horde o cme Vitaphon subjeet. Neil Hlm“lo “The B Cllicag Comeay. m Brent Will Rogers Fvel; “The !uverdl-mae » Vitaphone F\lh‘!ll n “Lightnin". Vitaphone subject. Bessig Love Iois Moran 1 “The Dancers. o * Com!d!v medy. “See America Thirst.” __Vitaphone subject. ) 9th St. N.W. ie Dressler l‘nfl i Circle Tl “Min snd Mv; D}enil;lter and Vislace Beery i Kine Vidor's “Billy the Kid." ¢ Vidor Harold Liovd in " one Hid. et Bt James Kirl Haold Liovd tn Lioyd mmumn arid 2105 Pa. Ave. N.W ( Marilyp_Miller Colony gl gy unny.” Ga. Ave. & Farragut __ Vitaphone subject. qulm Miller Dorothy_Peterson . Vitaphone' Dorothy_Peterson “Mother's, Ory." Warne, Baxter “Renegades.” vxmmonu subject. Jge Frisco and Lila Lee -Fhe Gorman Comedy. Vitaphone. Charles_Bickford “The m\»:‘n End.” Dumbart Marie Dressler and 1 lumbartion hdiy ard, B omey rie Dras: Wallace 15 % 4 “Min an dnm e nem e ve and Ratey Smuh i m.nleyd Aflnh in Stanley Smith | Comedy. Marle Dressier an Weiface. Beery " “Love in the Rous Waliace Beery n 1343 Wisconsin Ave. i T rold l..lnyd i Feer Firs swr.u.m H mld Lio Fold Lloyd T Coi Sportiight. ler_and i Hopkins _and role Lompard in” ‘gust & ven.” . an ‘omedy. Sportiis Comeds. " Sporiignt. __ et orlym:e‘: g Jack Mulhall iy “Murder Will Out.” Comedy. Cartoon. Fox ers. mos 'n’ Andy | ‘l:hukhend Daubl- Comedy cmmn “Up the River.” Comedy. Cartoon. “Buffalo Bill__ Pestwara Bonn “Up the River.” d. Comedy. Cartoon. crial Comedy. Cartoon. ox | El Brendel in “‘Just Tmagine.” Comedy. Cartoon. Hippodrome 808 K St. N.W. Arthur Lake i “Cheer Up ant Comedy. _Cartoon. 1d Denny and iriam Segar 1 “&oteay. Aet Arthur Lake | “Cheer 0 Smile. Comedy. _Cartoon. ooThe, Bis Trail oZhe, Bis Trall “The Big _Trail Cummy Cartoon. John w St Marsuerite *Ehulehin “The Bie Trail” Home E B 1 Fual Tarine 13th & C Sts. N.E. Dark. irbanks. Jr. Pod® tien Ghand ndel in BPrimiat> M “Ouuvn! “Bot v Wray and Virlar Varconi in ‘Capt. Thufld" Comedy. Vif Victgr *chrlen n Ryom Comedy. Vitaphone John Mack mué' “h Bl‘(’t‘\;"‘ - Serial. fhort. subuct< 4 Izene Delroy and John Mack Brown in T KTy, o, Sl 5‘ '-nm "the Kid." -mory| subjects. Tice Chevaller 1o 8100 18th st. n.e. Walter Huston and Elsie Ferguson in Kay Francis in irtuous Sin fang Jovs, 00 “Half Shiot med Bert Wheeler ai Beri Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in Cenrise” “Ralf Biot at Gunrise’ Nen Comedy._Ne: ‘Brendel . arte e n l(uzl‘recn Sunivapin Kay Francl o omedy. Comedy. _Ca Buck Buck Jone Trene Delroy and 1 in Rk ‘omeds. Short_subjects. Buck e 3 ':;'a;:'nc‘fl Ann Hardini " CHrI L‘( the Gul;‘tn dy. Camzflv Bob Stee] New Laurel ‘Walter Huston and Laurel, Md. Kay Prancis in i Leader ncls in Siils an Dorothy M-cnm in Dorgthy Mackel “Man Trouble.” Troubl Muwn 8ills_an Milton i e, Comedy. _ Act. Clara Bow In “Her Wedding Night.” Comeds. cf Act Richard Atler Mitzi Green |'n"‘d “Santa Fe Trail Clara Bow in “Her Wedding Night." Comedy. Act. Comedy. Serial arold Murray in 9th & E Sts. N.W. _Comedy. Serlal. News Lyric Gaithersburg. Dark. Ma. Reginald Denny Resinald Donay in in “Madam Satan.’” Jghn McCormick in, John ucr:‘o“;mlex o, o g My Heart.” “Sons g My Heart. pulomeds. Gom, Pathe News. der Suspiclon.” eria Pathe News Palace e Bes Wolf | 307 9th st. n.w. . T 3&"'&“ ‘er‘::mln a W ° Ayres | ommor . C1a: ‘Common. Clay. Sl Cartoo Comedy. Cartoon. Ol udetle Colbert and ederic March, in Manslsughter; view. Cartoon. mflzum Colberf .lmnn)& and in toon. v'vnmer'!-iter. “Renegades.” Review. "."men Fune Collyer .nu and rown Wallace Beer, John Mark “Buly the Kid.” Princess 1119 H St. N.E. Wallace Beery and dohn Mack Brown .y quigt on the “Billy_the Ki Wenem ’l’o Dark. | Richmond Alexandria, Va. i p‘fiw‘#n’r\ s tath Doonuy m Kell" edy Snott subiects. Evelyn Brent In “Xiadonnia ‘of the Vitaphéne subject Savoy 8030 14th St. N.W. Evelyn Bunl “}‘l' . “A Ladg B aumnam » e in “All Quict on the Western Front.” 1l Maude 1n § Mands o alines ot n ‘“Way for a_Saflor.” d Waliy Wales in “Trails of Danger.” o William Haines and William Haines and Doran in Dor n in “Rempte ControL” Com._Short submu Bebe Dllnfill n Snort. subjects. Ann Harding co o SR of the, Golden in “Man to Man." Eddie_Cantor Buck Tones, in : in e Dawn Trail.” Vitaphone sublect. ects. vitaphone nubleet SGCO Dark. ing, Md. Amos n° Andy “Check, Anfl Double Amos ‘: andy “Check _and Double Ch Qugen and Johngon | y P Roman_to Woman. .+ Sailor, Behave. “Woman 0 Womi ~joiephine Dunn in ™ Alieen ';'mn Mo "s"o o znflm George Arliss Leprence T -rnunoon Sylvan hie 104 R. L ave. n.w. e Basion 550 X Kay Prencls in “Old English.” Sportiight. " Rilly Dove in “One Nignt st cumon "¢ Eomeds. Jack Mylball_in “Murder Wil out. Comedy. Cartoon. News. fon Nixon in Meoiege “Lovers™ Com>dy. | Takoma ume Dreulu lnfl o) Takoms Park. D. C. “Min and Bl "'v’ir"mu Beery Ogurpd Negel in “A Lady Surrenders. rold Lioyd in Hazold Lovd 1n Hazold Liovd lfl Lloyd 1 e Pay HARG Staron. Lynn 1n ild Bmmunv E “Min _and HIL" Kay Prancis in “Facston Flower.” Vitapbone subject. | Tivoli 14th & Park R4. J5 o % outaara Houn Vitaphone subject. Kay Prancis ip “Passion Flower.” ames Hall and Feno ue!my on “Divoree. Priends - vitaphone. etes, Chandier i Qutward Boutd. 26h sect James Vall and Irene Delroy in “Divorce Among #riends.” vitaphone. Bessie Love e Rmerica This ‘Cowedy. ne 1 taphone L Chester Morris William Haines “Rem troL” oy York 11 memge Canteel” Jia B Chester Morris t Whispers.” “Th ‘A Lady's Morals Phtadhone Sobject. Vitaphone subject. Vlnnhone‘ sibject. Gs. Ave. & Quebes Lawrence Grant Honored. AWRENCE GRANT will be remem- bered by Washington theater fans Le Gallienne in “Tillle of Bloomsbury.” After a long and successful stage career, Grant has become an important figure in motion pictures. He succeeds the late Milton Sills on the board of directors of the Motion Picture Academy. He is also seen on the screen now in “The Cat Creeps” and “The Boudoir Diplomat.™ After a long stage career, with such stars as Elsie Perguson, Jane Cowl, Mar- jorie Rambeau and Olga Nethersole, work and has been there for five years. He and Miss Ferguson appeared on the stage in “The Grand Duchess and the Waiter.” One of the most interesting episodes in the career of Lawrence Grant oc- curred in Glacier Park, when he became a member of the Pegan branch of the Black Feet Tribe of Indians. He was in charge of a series of lectures on travels, ul\umud with motion pictures which wished to. himself, and during this time he spent, eight weeks among the Black Feet. With much ceremony, they took him into their fold, and he returned to New York to resume his lecture work. Twenty of the Indians came to visit | him in the East. Grant lived at the McAlpin Hotel at the time, so had wig- wams erected on the roof of the hotel/ and entertained his red brothers royally. He has pictures taken at the time show- ing him pointing out the sights of the city from the roof. — G Sophxe on Eaay Street. COMES the news that Sophie Tucker, “the red-hot mamma of America” and “the darling of London,” opened last night at the Palladium Theater, London, to the biggest box office in town. The house was sold out two weeks in advance and hundreds were turned away. Sophie is doubling at the Palladium and the Kit Kat Club, and the famous night club, it is added, has been doing capacity business since Sophie opened six weeks ago. Following her engagement in London, Sophie goes to Paris, where she will play an engagement at the Empire Theater “at the highest salary ever woman artist in the history of the show business.” Think of that! for his work with O. P. Heggle and Eve | “| writer, Grant went to Hollywood for picture | paid a | Oklahoma’s PmHAPS no American playwright, | save only Eugene O'Neill, has had | so varied and adventurous a pre] tion for the task of depicting life on the stage as has Lynn Rfln, author of “Green Grow the Lilacs.” Riggs has been cowpuncher, driver of a delivery wagon, proofreader, chau- tauqua singer, factory hand, truck driver, farmer, Hollywood sc teacher, bookstore clerk and movie extra, not to mention a Guggen- helm Pellow in Europe, poet and play- wright Doubtlau all these activities con- life, but the influence which is domi- nant in nearly all his work is that of the frontler farming community into which he was born. His birth hce Wl.l the Oklahoma equivalent of tional log cabin—a humble {r‘me farm house typical of that State in the days when it was still Indian Territory, and the discovery of oil had not yet started it on the road to industrializa- tion. Althnu‘h Mr. Riggs has traveled far since then, both.geographically and spiritually, he has never gotten away from that farm house. Nor has he Riggs was born in August, 1899, near the town of Claremore. His people | p: were small ranchers or pioneer farmers. He attended school in Claremore and in vacation time rode after cattle with his father and brothers. He earned | money at odd jobs, including that of | singer in the local movie house, and read a deal—mostly, he says, trash. After graduating from the Claremore Preparatory School he set out to see the world as “puncher” on a cattle train bound for Chicago. From there he went to New York, earning a living at any jobs that came to hand, being by turns an extra in the movies, a clerk in Macy’s Book Store and proof- reader on the Wall Street Journal. Re- turning to Oklahoma, he worked in Tulsa on the Oil and Gas Journal. It is perhaps characteristic of Riggs and of the blend of realism and | in all his work. that he should have got the idea of writing poetry while work- ing on the Oll and Gas Journal. read poetry voraciously, and, as he con- fesses, wrote Teams of it. After a few months on the Pacific Coast, he de- cided to complete his education and returned to the University of Oklahoma. He was now 21. Poetry was still his chief interest. He discovered the the- ater as an interest two years later when he wrote a farcical comedy, “Cuckoo,” which was produced by the tributed something to his outlook on| Izl_gwright. dramatic department. His first serious play, “Knives From Syria,” was pro- duced under the direction of Ida Rauh, formerly of the Provincetown Players. Encouraged by its success, he wrote his first full-length play, “The Primitives” (a satire on New Mexican life), and | followed it with “Sump'n Like Wings.” This play, together with the two that followed it—"A Lantern to See By" and “Big Lake’—brought him to the nwenuan of influential persons ln '.he theater world and helped win Guggenheim fellowship with a n.lgend permlttins a year of creative t was there that he wrote “Guen Grow the L\!m > which the guild is now_presentin, His first New York production was “Big Lake,” which was u:ted at the American Laboratory Theater in April, 1927. It served to impress his name on the critics as a playwright of un- common promise. Other (\lll-hnxth plays by Mr Riggs are “The Lonesoms Nest,” "lhneor “The Domino Plflol" and “Roadside” (formerly _called “Borned in Texas”). “The Domino Parlor” was acted outside New York in lfl?fl, wiLh Irene Fenwick in the leading ‘Roadside” was acted under the mlnlgement of Arthur Hopkins in the Fall of 1930. It was described by the critics as a Rabelaisian extravaganza of life in pioneer Oklahoma. Mr. Riggs has recently published a book of verse, “The Iron Dish.” Much of his poetry l;las been published in leading maga- ines. As several critics have pointed out, Riggs is by no means a “poet turned dramatist,” but rather a dramatist with a vivid feeling for the poetic, in action as well as in language.. His plots are essentially of the theater, and his dia- logue has that quality which every actor instantly recognizes and prizes— it “fits the mouth.” Tallulah Bankhead's First. “NEW YORK LADY,” the tentative title for an pl.l.y by Donald Ogden Stewart, will Tallulah Bankhead's first motion vlc- ture, according to_announcement by Paramount’s New York studio. Tbis cholice replxcu “Her Past,” previously announced for Miss Bankhead's initial appearance on the screen. Clive Brook will share screen honors with Bankhead. THOU SHALT NOT LOVE looe o vt Scooping Wickersham. ORN out with anxiety and impa- tience over the delay in render- ing the report of the Wickersham Commission to the President, Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer ups and makes a pic- ture that is going to “tell all.” Prances Marion, who provided the material for “The Big House” and “Min and Bill,” wrote the story. Hill, who directed the pictures mentioned, also directed this one. It is called “The Secret Six” and is heralded as “a vivid expose of the ‘in- side’ of American political life in the city and its relation to underworld con- ditions.” The facts, it is claimed, were gathered from 10 or more Amerlun gma one of which Washington, D. C., not. The cast Includes Wallace Beery, Lew\a Stone, John Mack Brown, Ralph Paul Hurst, Marjorie Ram- beau, De Witt Jennings, .Yun H.lrhw “soul of the electric Gable, Fletcher Norton lnd a Whoh lot of atmosphere and extras. Beery as Scorpio is the big villain, graduated from a slaughter house to the position of litical boss, while Stone is the crooked legal master mind that the ma- Gorgeous Settings. ANTIQUES valued st approximately a quarter of a million dollars are said to have been assembled in one set- ting at Paramount’s New York studio, representing the luxurious home of the thumcnl 'amily which figures promi- nently in the story of “The Royal Fam- fly of Broadway,” now being brought to the talking screen. Nearly a score of New York’s leading antique dealers, it is claimed, mntflb- uted one or more articles to the en- semble of rugs, furniture, pianos, draj n; des, Wnflnfl and Oblef-! d'art 1! 'rhe set nu compleu living ters, including a huge and ornate room, a library and the .slezpmg wnrt- ments of the varous members of a large family. Louis XIV is the dominant period of the setting, with occasional Venetian baroque and odds and ends from the later Louis assembled in a harmonious group. Ina Claire, Frederic March, Mary Brain, Charles Starrett, Henrietta Cros- man and Arnold Korff are said to re- create colorful characters in this com- Miss |edy by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman. NOW PLAYING Rcture PAUL KAS DAVID MANNERS AMUSEMENTS. PALACE—"One Heavenly Night” V!LYN LAYE, English light star, in “One Heavenly Nl(hl." an original romantic comedy by the celebrated nov- elist, Louis Bromfield, is the current attraction at Loew's Palace ‘Theater. ‘The scene of the dramatic love story is laid in Budapest, where Fritzi, the darling of cabaret ptu’nns in the night life of the clt.y has, through her be- . havior, incurred I the censorship of + the law and is ban- _ished for six| months. Lilli, af . flower irl, wul’w ships itzi, and is | easily induced by the singer to ac- cept the exile in her stead. How this leads Lilli to the count's castle and the results of the discovery of the deception is told in frolicsome action, witty dia-| logue and tuneful | Evelyn Laye. song. Colorful cos- | tumes and a large cast of citizens, peasants, soldiers, swells and police provide the atmosphere of both castle and cabaret in a lavish Goldwyn fashion. Evelyn Laye has the role of Lilli, the | heroine; the other half of the romance is entrusted to John Boles, who is heard to advantage in a number of selections. Leon Errol, famous stage and screen comediai, has lines and situations worthy of hls eat talents as a popular jester, while Lilyan Tashman, as Fritzi, gives a brilliant performance. ‘The story was adapted to the screen by Sidney Howard, well known plny- wright. George Fitzmaurice directed. On the Palace stage this week Allan fers Miss Chatterton, “triple characterizatios role of Joe Copeland, Mnnnern has opportunity fo portray part of Miss Cl mrum. nrn lover. * ‘The action of the story is laid about & farm in the Middle Wut for the ma- Jor portion of the picture or until Miss Chatterton has completed the Tole- mother and daughter md is mth ly (m; dLhe final k e granddaughter. Paul l-ll r the leading role in the a the picture. Georze leur prominent part. Richard Wlllu‘e directed the m- duction and the screen play Was pre. pared by Zoe Akins. A group of short subjects rounds out, the program. R-K-O KEITH'S—*“Charley’s Aunt.” - F strictly English theme and atmos- i b[.:her: lti Cr:;g:y! Aunt,” the Oo~ umbia picture starring Charles Ruuh. which fs the current attraction -a% R-K-O Keith's Theater. The story centers about life at Oxlfllfl University. Charlie Ruggles plays. the. first female impersonator in pictures. He wears skirts, a curly, silky" wig, a shiny black silk dress with m and a perky bonnet. A large and imposing cast lndudu June Collyer, Hugh Willlams, Lloyd, Flora Le Breton and Phillips’ Smalley. Al Christie, renowned for- his-- :‘mndlms of comedy, directed this plc- ure. RIALTO—“Free Love.” SIDNEY HOWARD'S well known play, “Half Gods,” has been_transferred to the screen by Universal Picture Oor=~ poration under the terrifying title of: “Free Love,” and it 1s the current sts- lrlc‘:lon at the Rialto Theater this, weel The story concerns a young co le, financially comfortable, who neve e Rogers begins his seventh week as mas- | less drift perilously near the divorce. ter of ceremonies in a revue titled “Keep | Moving.” Stan Kavanagh is the fea- tured artist in the number of Loew acts. EARLE—"Viennese Nights.” “VIENNISE NIGHTS” and Vivienne Segal, star of numerous Vitaphone | g productions, head the stage and the screen show this week at Warner Bros.’ Earle Theater. The booking of Miss Begal for a personal appearance is in conformance with the policy of the Earle to bring the greatest luminaries of }';he stage and screen behind its foot- lights. Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Ham- merstein, 2d, are the creators of “Viennese Nights,” which is “a love story that contains more human in- terest than any two romances in the past,” according to an announcement. The authors have to their credit such successes as ‘“Blossom Time,” “May- »*“Rosalie,” “Show Boat” The story is set in Vienna and con- court because of the wife’s selfishness, her lack of consideration for her hus-: band and her petulant habit of nagging. Genevieve Tobin and Conrad Nagel head the cast, which includes also Mon- roe Owsley, Ilka Chase, Sidney Bracey, Slim Summerville,” George Irving, Richard Tucker and: Bertha Mann. The Universal newsreel, with Graham - :?:gn:ee brold:la!lng, Otto P. Beck* e wrgan and some short comedy " reels are added lm'lmona. N METROPOLITAN—“The Passion Flower"—“Going Wild.” **THE PASSION FLOWER," from the story of Kathleen Norris, is the attraction through Tuesday of this week at Warner Bros. Metropolitan, which now presents two_photoplays: weekly at reduced prices. This Metro=- Goldwyn-Mayer production is a dra- matic story of a woman who, umnc tn‘ 8 success of her own cerns the love of a girl for a young the musician and her fidelity to him throughout her life in spite of the fact that her father marries her off to a young officer. Vivienne Segal has the leading role. Others include Walter Pidgeon, Louise Fazenda, Alice Day, Jean Hersholt, Alexander Gray and Bert Roach. “Viennese Nights” was presented in New York at advance prices, but is shnwn here at popular Earle prices. iss Segal, star of “Viennese Nights,” & ll-w appears in person in the stage program. sonal appearances are to a few weeks before returmng to work before the cameras, promised to come to Wa last November, and her cun'ent lppe.rlnce is the fulfillment wllf Other personalities be seen on the lh(e are Lelvitt and Lockwood, laf of “Sunny Days,” “Gay Paree,” "Etumnz Prince” and “Take It Prom Me.” In pressie Kingsley, Eddie Cassell, Fred Kuhlman and Gay Nell. The fun-making is con- tinued by Nash and Fately and the Four can Aces and & Queen. Maxine Doyle continues as mistress of ceremonies. The entertainment is com- pleted with the Earle News and the usual short subjects. FOX—“Part-time Wife.” 'DMUND LOWE in “Part-time Wife,” a PFox Movietone comedy-drama, with Leils Hyams and Tommy Clifford, ‘Theater’s current screen offering. Edmund Lowe, who played a hard- botled hero, a drawing-room lover and a gentleman crook in “Part-time Wife,” is a headstrong hubby, who didn't know ?ow hl::ch h‘ghloved his wife until she ibed moving and is replete with laughs, h throbs and action. Bob West, back at the Fox again, e?mmm 1wmnmw mr:ml organ, will offer one o o ‘The Fanchon and M.lrr.o is _titled “Idea in Blue” In it Renoff and Renova are co-featured with Mitzi May- fair. Others who are seen and heard to advantage are Harry Savoy, in his famous skit, “So What?”; Webster and %(:fih:o. Paul Russell and the Sunkist let. Leon Brusiloff and the Fox Music Masters é’la’ one of their popular over- tures and the latest issue Of Fox Movie- tone News and a comedy, “Their Wives' Vacation;” complete the program. COLUMBIA—“The Right to Love.” DAVID MANNERS is one of the three leading men cast with Ruth Chat- terton by Paramount in “The Right to Love,” mkl.niz “camerization” of t.!u Susan Gaspell story, “Brook Evans,” which is current at Loew’s Columbia. ‘This new “drama of romantic repres- sion_throughout three generations” of- This petite star, whose per- | M! limited /‘ | TNIGHTS | ey BASNSRRTRTE Msrma SEGA 15 - /n Person. NOW SH! “PASSION FLOWER" WD ¢ AL COMEDY. ist St. & B._T. Ave. SYLVAN 1550 A5 CARouNA lllh " N. C. Ave. in_“LIFE OF THE PARTY TAKOMA ‘&3¢ nm MARIE DRESSLER i “MIN AND BILL” Cont. from 3 P.M. PRINCESS L% %™ WALLACE BEERY 3 BROWN in "BILLY T J%’x’;."m est d w-nu ln- E B G MAURICE P SARIS. NEWS. TODAY AND TOMOREOW. WILLIAM CONTROL."”" " Warner Bros.” o B fonno WIL] HAINES “REMOTE CONTHOL. Warner Bri AVENUE GRAND TODAY ~AND TOMORI ROGERS 1N “LIGHTNIN w"""R'A"i' ot St. Bet. 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