Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1932, Page 23

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24 1932. What's What and Where Attractions Soon to Be Seen in Washington Theaters Olvic Opera Co. ‘ Presents “The Gondoliers.” HE Washington Civic Opera Co. will present Gilbert and Sul-| livan’s popular operetta, “The Gondoliers,” for the week of February 29 at the Shubert-| Belasco Theater. e first perform- ance, which will be given Monday night | at 8:30 o'clock, | will mark the debut of this com- | pany, which is | formed completely | of local artists. | Among those who have prom- inent roles are Nina Norman, | Leonora Fague, . Hasseltine _Dunn, : | Beverly O'Brien, B it Alma Harris, Rita Reyos, Lorraine T | Bentley, Harriett Gunderson, Ed- ward _ Stock, Jr.; i Ira Philip Meyer, = | R-ls'mondN P‘tgm' Leonors Fague, Hen: estor, Kmoryn Bagranoff, Edward Garber and | Howard Severe. Alfred Manning is the musical director. Lillian Dixon At the Gayety. J_ILLIAN DIXON and her “Innocent Maids” are scheduled for the | Gayety Theater mext Sunday afternoon | in a show which is said to be & top- | notcher on the Columbia circuit. As sisting Miss Dixon will be George Mu ray, Bob Startzman, Charles Col Harry Beasley, Madeline La Vern Ethei Du Bois, Marcella Newberry, | Vincent Scanlon and Nora Ford, the| guest star billed as “The Gal From | the South.” Announcement has been made that Mrs. Jack (Legs) Diamond and her “Racket Dears” will be the attraction a week from Sunday. Ticket Allotment for National Theater Players. ATRONS of the National Theater | Players who subscribed for seats last season and wish to retain the same locations this year are advised by the management that they have only until Saturday to claim the reservations. After Saturday requests of new sub- scribers will be accepted and filed in the order of their request. It is, there- fore, imperative that those who desire to retain the same locations that they were allotted last year get in touch immediately with the management of | the National Theater Players. | 12-Year-Old Pianist With National Symphony. 'ANN SUGAR, 12-year-old Washing- | ton pianist, and a Eupu of Felian | Garzia, will be the soloist Saturday at | the children’s concert given by the National Symphony Orchestra, Hans Kindler, conductor, at the Central High School Auditorium, at 11 o'clock. Miss Sugar will play the Mendelssohn “G Minor Concerto” for piano and orchestra. Annual One-Act Play Tournament Begins Tuesday. THE annual District of Columbia one- act play tournament, conducted by the Community Center ~Department, with the co-operation of the Drama Guild, will open its series of four pre- liminary contests on Tuesday evening and four plays Thursday evening at East Washington Community Center, Seventeenth and East Capitol streets, at 8 o'clock. Dr. Herbert A. Gibbons Will Lecture Tuesday. R. HERBERT A. GIBBONS, author, publicist and lecturer, will deliver | a lecture, sponsored by the Community | Institute, Tuesday evening st 8:15 oclock, in the suditorium of Central | High_School. Dr. Gibbons' topic will be “Wider Horizons,” which is “a re- view of the ever-changing world.” Seats may be purchased at the T. Ar- thur Smith Concert Bureau, the A. A. A. and the Community Institute office, in the Pranklin Administration Building. Katherine Cornell Coming to Belasco. AKNOUNCWT is made that Katherine Cornell will come to the Shubert-Belasco Theater the week of March 7 in Rudolf Besier's “The Barretts of Wimpole Street.”” This play, which Miss Cornell acted on Broa way | for a solid year, is now playing a suc- | cessful engagement in Boston. The | supporting_cast includes Brian Aherne, Margalo Gillmore and Charles Wal- dron. Purther announcement from the same office indicates that the musical comedy “Everybody’s Welcome” will play a four-day engagement at this| same theater, starting March 13. The cast includes Frances Willlams, Oscar Shaw, Ann Pennington, Harriet Lake and others. Dressler in “Emma” At the Palace Friday. ARIE DRESSLER will be seen at Loew’s Palace, beginning Friday of this week, in her latest starring pro- | duction, “Emma.” Miss Dressler is sup- | ported by Jean Hersholt, Richard Crom- well and John Miljan in this picture, which is her first since she won last | year's award for the best performance of 1931. On the stage Director Barron has| succeeded in acquiring what is said to be super-vaudeville revue, which in- cludes such well known performers as Bob Murphy, Al and Ray Samuels, | Johnny Hyman and Dave Tannen. | SPECIAL For_the Month of March WIRE YOUR 6-ROOM HOUSE Main Hall: Chain Pendant and Acorn, Lazy- man Switeh. 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Second Week of “The Man Who Played God.” 'THE new George Arliss film, “The Man Who Played God,” is being held over for a second week at Warner's Metropolitan. As an added attraction on the program is the Warner Brother's Bicentennial picture, “Washington, the Man and the Capital.” “Shanghai Express” At Earle Saturday. | ARLENE DIETRICH'S long awaited film, “Shanghai Ex- press,” will start the new week on Saturday at Warner's Earle, with a cast which in- | cludes such favorites as Clive Brook, | Anna May Wong, Eugene Pallette and | Louise Closser Hale. The story, said to be highly dramatic, concerns the | romantic adven- tures of & woman of mystery and her former suiter, who meet by accident on an Oriental ex- press train. This is Miss Dietrich’ first film in many months. The stage show, the guid- of Maxine “Hell Divers” to Have Second Week at Columbia. “HELL DIVERS” will be held over a second week at the Columbia in response to thousands of Wallace Beery and Clark Gable fans. The cast also includes Marjorie Rambeau, Con- rad Nagel, Marie Prevost, Dorothy Jor- dan and Cliff Edwards. The story con- cerns peace-time maneuvers with the fleet on the Pacific Coast and in Pan- ama. JOINT RALLY PLANNED Daughters of America to Meet With Junior Order This Evening. The Daughters of Americs and the Junior Order of United American Me- chanlcs of the District will hold & joint Bicentennial rally tonight at the North- east Masonic Temple, Eighth and F sketches will streets northeast, at 8 o'clock. Sresented by the Three Swifts, Abbott | Speakers Wil include James L. Wil- | ions _and and Robey and Johnny Pastine and his | meth, Judge Gilbert O. Nat! “Dancing Sweethearts.” The program | Mrs. Sarah W. Johnson of Newark, N.J. will also include a Graham MacNamee o newsreel and a prelude presented by CH|NE—SE WILL SPEAK the Earle orchestra. “Lost Squadron” at Keith's | Two Students to Discuss Conflict Before Segnu Forum. Scheduled for Saturday. ‘HE “test run,” or "world premiere” Two members of the Chinese Btu- dents’ Club of Washington will dis- of the new Richard Dix film, “LML“ Squadron,” will take place Saturday cuss conditions in Manchuria and tonight before at R-K-O Keith's Theater. The cast of this }Jicture having to do with num} Shanghal &t 7:45 o' fiyers of the movies will include Mary |the Segnu Forum, ent organiza- Astor, Joel McCrea, Robert Armstrong, | tion, at the School of Economics and Government at National University. The meeting will be held in annex Dorothy Jordan, Erich von Stroheim and Hugh Herbert. | 5No. LN = lmo?i!{i:‘fi'm it DR. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Spec Phene Natfonal 0721 s b e ance chief performer Evelyn Wilson, who was recently seen here with George White's “Scandals.” 0”1;: Marlene Dietrich. 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