Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1932, Page 22

What's What and W here Attractions Soon to Be Seen in Washington Theaters ASHINGTONN appears t0 be getting quality, if not quan: tity, in its dramatic enter mate [ icture palaces. A Bernard Shaw play ' t hasn't been this vnfidmfomm- eide ter Cuild offering— eek of a lively and un- " entertaining musical show will be its portion at the one, while in the eld ofo talking pictures a distinct fea- ‘?m will be & new Barrymore picture that adds greatly to an already fine array of screen attractions. * o %0 National, Monday, Shaw’s “Too Goed to Be True.” E New York Theater Guild an- nounces & pre-Broadway view of George Bernard Shaw's latest play, “Too Good to Be True” At the Na- #lonal Theater, starting next Monday evening. The play iteelf, set down by the playwright as “a collection of ser- mons by a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature,” is described in the ad- vance notices as “something of a comic ‘Heartbreak House' dealing lightly and airily with various post-war prob- Jems of morals and other forms of be- havior, national and personal” An in- teresting and Incidental feature of Its performance is the | rance in its cast of Beatrice Lillle in a dramatic comedy role. Others ir the cast will be Hope Willlams, Hugh Sinclair, Ernest Cossart, Pedro de Cordoba, Leo G. Carroll, Minna Phillips, Alexander Clark, jr, and Julius Evans. x x % * “Everybody's Welcome" At Shubert-Belasco, March i8-19. HERALDED as one of the most de-| lightful of the season’s musical | comedies, the management of the Shu- bert-Belasco Theater announces three performances of “Everybody's Wel- come”—on Friday and Saturday eve- nings of next week, with a matinee on Saturday evening “Everybody's Wel- come” concerns the hardships and hilarity in the lives of a young Green- | wich Village couple. with many amus- | ing situations and the interpolation of tuneful songs and clever dancing. The | book is by Lambert Carroll, the music by Sammy Fain and the lyrics by Irving Kahal, with dances by Wlllmm‘ Holbrook, settings by Wateon Barratt and stage direction by Willlam Caryl. The cast includes Frances Williams. | Oscar Shaw, Ann Pennington, Harriette Leke and Jack Sheehan, with many others, including the Tom Jones Or- chestra and a cheerful dancing ensem- ble. Ticket sale starts at the box office this morning at 8 o'clock * ox % * “Kiki-Poo Kuties” Announced for the Gayety. ARION “KIKI" ROBERTS, with “The Kiki-Poo Kuties,” which fea- tures Harry “Sitting Bull” Steppe, with & cast of outstanding burlesque celebri- ties, is announced for the Gayety The- ater for the week, starting with a mati- nee next Sunday. The vivacious “Kiki” is presenting her own act in addition to | WooDWARD & LOTHROP Go to any bank and buy United States Certificates of Indebtedness—$50, $100 and $500 Baby Bonds the regular burlesque show, and she is reviving dance routines such as she did in “Whoopee,” “Rosalie,” “Siles” and “Rio Rita." ‘The “Kuties” .nclude Mr. Steppe, assisted by Ann Claire, Tim Ben- son, Jim almer Cody, Arda Kar- lova and Sally O'Donnell, with a snappy chorus. * o oxox National Symphony Tomorrow at Constitution Hall. IP GABRILOWITSCH, famous pianist and conductor, will be the soloist for the seventh concert of the National Symphony Ofchestra, Hans Kindler , at Constitution Hall tomorrow afternoon at 4:45 when Mr, Gabrilowitsch will zart’s “D Minor Concerto” for piano and orchestra—allegro, romanze, rondo (allegro assai). The program will open with Bach's “Adagio and Fugue,” fol- | lowed by the cencerto and Strauss’ fa- mous tone poem, “Don Juan," with two | Berlioz numbers from “Theé Damnation of Faust”—‘Danse des Sylphes" “Rackoczy March " and The orchestra will close its first funl | season at Constitution Hall Thursday afternoon, March 17, at 4:45 o'clock, when with Mr. Kindler conducting the Pprincipal work to be presented will be Handel's “Detingen” Te Deum, with the Washington Choral Festival Association Chorus of 100 as soloist. Leonard Davis will be the baritone soloist, and Wag- 's “Vorspiel und Liebstod,” from “Tristan and Isolde,” and Ravel's “Bo- lero” will complete the program. £ %% o Last Four Plays In Play Tournament. THE last four plays in the one-act play tournament will be presented tomorrow evening at the East Washing- ton Community Center, Seventeenth and East Capftol streets, starting-at 8 p.m. They will include Laura Hornickel's | comedy, “The Part-time Job,” by the Mackin Players, under the direction of Grace Sprucebank: Essex Dane's “When the Whirlwind Blows.” by the Washing- ton Readers’ Club, under the direction of Emma A. Jordan; “The Ladies,” ar- ranged by Mrs. Berry E. Clark, from the Richard Brinsley Sheridan play, by the Rockville Woman's Club, under the di~ rection of Mrs, Clark, and “Betrayal,” by C. Elta Van Normian, by the Chapel Players, The finals of the 1932 tournament will be presented at the McKinley Audi- torium = Tuesday evening, March 15, starting at 8:15 o'clock, after which the judges will rate the plays and select the | winner of the tournament and the run- ner-up. Seats may be had at the T. Arthur Smith Buresu or the Corgmunity Center Department. SR Chevy Chase Scheol To Present Annual Comedy. 'HE members of the Glee Club of the Chevy Chase School will present their annual _ political comedy, “The Chevy Chase Frantics,” Saturday evening, at 8:30 o'clock, at the school. The piay, written by Isabelle 8. Farrington, with music composed by the students, is being dl y | the announcement of the THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, 1 S Clara Clemens, March 15, Cuirtral Community Center. A CLEMENS, dsughter of Sam- uel L. Clemens, the famious “Mark litersture, will _deliver an With Mark to_have inherited much of her famous | father's genisitty and y she has made & name for herself in | musical circles as a rare contralto. In | | her talk she tells much of interest con- cerning Mark Twain's experiences at | home and abroad, the celebrities he met and many amusing and interesting } storfes that are said to reveal her father in a lew light | * % ¥ % | | Yushny's Russian Neévee At Nationsl Theater Mareh 15. | Y ASCHA YUSHNY'S Rassian revue. “The Blue Bird," described ss "a stimulating cocktall of m«m y o'€lock 46 an attraction in Mrs. Greene’s artists’ course. It offers, in rapid succession, some 15 {mterludes #n episodes with a dash of sophistication saturated with the muste of the Rus- sian composers. 1 EE “Racing_Youth” At the Rislto Friday. { L RIP-SNORTING racing picture, loaded to the brim with thrills,” with the Kind of story ¢f the autd racing type that lifted the laté Wallace Reid to screen celebrity, is the intro- duction of the management of “Réeing Youth” featuring Slim Summervilie and Louise Fazenda, whieh starts at the | Rialto Theater Friday. It 8 based on | an original b - Earl Snell, and the sup- | porting cast mcludes June Clyde, Frank Albertson. Arthur Stuart Hull, Fofrest Stanley, Eddie Phillips and Otis Harlan. * ok ok K Triple Bill at Earle, tarting Next Saturday. | "THE Earle Theater, for the week starting Saturday, anncunces a | triple feature bill, including “Behind | the Mask.” a Columbia mystery thriller. | starring Jack Holt and Boris Karlofl: | Bing Crosby in “his best picture,” titled “Dream House,” a musical comedy, and Lillian Shade, a new musical comedy star in a few music Box revue, who will make her first af e in Wash- ington, o head the stagé Vaudevilie: L ‘Sunshine Susie” Coming to Keith’s Saturday. «QUNSHINE SUSIE,” a British-made picture, starring the lovely Renate Muller, supported by thé British eome- | ian, Jack Hulbert, with Owen Naes, is jement ot the | {of the R-K-O Kieth Theater | coming week. The stage vaudeville will | | be headed by Lee More, famous for her | radio and victrola records, with Nina | Olivette and her “nine cheer leaders” | &nd others. e ‘Atsene Lupin” | With Barrymores at Palace. | OHN and Lionel Barrymore will be featured in “Arsene Lupin” as co- | Sinclair Lewis' “Arrowsnsith.” [ a strong bid for the year's award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scieness. A New York Capitol Theater revue the m, Which inchudes meny 05 v sets -y Loew itan. ’r!l BROKEN LULLABY," sdapted | from Maurice Rostand's play. “The Man 1 Killed." the of a young man who falls in love with the sister of & man he had killed, with a cast headed by Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll and Phillips Holmes, will remain for another week at the Warner | Metropolitan. 1t is an Ernst Lubitsch creation. *x oo Columbi Holds Over { ¢ A RROWSMITH,” which won the £ Nobel Ifterature prise for Sin- | clair Lewis, will continue at Loew's Co- | lumbia Theater for another week. It i the stotry of & woman who foHowed her huskand through adversity and dis- sppointment, but not to happiness, sithough he loved but two things, his wife and his profession. The cast is Headed by Richard Bemnett, A. E. Anson, Myrna Loy and Alex. Franels. * x ox % “After Tomorrow” $tatis at the Fox Friday. “ Amfl TOMORROW,” the widely heralded emotiondl drama from the play by John Golden and Hugh | Stenge, will be seen in its screen | sdaptation &t the Fox Theater starting Priday of this week. 1t presents Charles Farrell in a new li it 18 said, and Marion Nixon as aweethearts, two every-day Vi who want to marry, but cannot, because of de- | pendent families, The edst inchudes Minna Gombell, Williem Coflier, sr.; Josephine Hull, Nors Lane, Whiiam Pawley and Ferdinand Munjer. It is a Frank Bomcoflnfirm emta'n. 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