Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1932, Page 48

(.\‘/.' STAR, ART FOUR. Fluffy Comedy and Heavy | AMUSEMENTS THE SUNDAY WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 13, 19 AMUSEMENTS. A Headliner Leads Revue “Guild Play at National And Music ag}f Belasco “Everybody's Welcome " Comes to Capital for Only | TWO Days—'BCfnard Sha“"s NTOO True to BC Good" Brings Beatrice Lillie and Hope Williams. Beatrice Lillie. NATIONAL—"Too True to Be Good." EVERAL things make the engage- ment of “Too True to Be Good.” which opens at the National to- morrow evening, of considerable importance. First, it represents the Theater Guild presenting Wash- ington with a pre-Broadway view of Bernard Shaw's latest play, and sec- ondly, it will reveal Beatrice Lillie playing for the | first time in & | straight comedy N rather than in a revue or & musical comedy. | Ever since Miss Lillle burst upon the American con- sciousness in the | first “Charlot Re- vue” in 1925, she B | 58s been a major star in ouf theat- rical firmament. ‘The following sea- son she was starred by Charles Dillingham in “Oh, Please,” and after a year in England she came back to co-star with Noel Coward in “This Year of Grace." Last year it was the “Third Little Show,” which never did get to Washington, and now she comes with the Guild in a show which has words by Bernard Shaw, but music by no one. It repre- | sents. in a word, a radical change for the lady herself and an event which will greet with interest, because of its combination of a comedienne like Miss | Lillie clowning through a Shaw com- edy. | Her style of comedy developed by | her own persistence. London managers refused to allow her to depart from the straight singing which she first did. But on the night of a show's clos- ing, when every one else was clowning, she did quite a little on her own ac- | count, and attracted attention thereby. | Her style is to maintain a-mien that | is determinedly serious, and yet & | not too dolorous solemnity. With her | straight face she will threaten to “skuh- | ream.” but with a hurt look she will | exclaim, “Pull-leeze.” This “Pull- leeze,” with its connotation of a shocked | decorum fending off something too in- | delicate for mention, achieved and heid | for her an enormous popularity after Miss Lillle had first made use of it. In fact, its popularity has been vast enough to make her avoid further ref- erence to the word. She refuses to be known as a one-word girl. | Many have asked how the Guild | came to think of Beatrice Lillie for the Shaw play, since she had never | played in straight comedy before. The answer is simple. The Guild's direc- tors had read the play and were dis- cussing a cast. Some one hazarded the | suggestion that Miss Lillie would be splendid in the srole of Sweetie, the errant lady of Mr. Shaw’s newest fable. Every one present fell in with the idea, | and next day offers were sent the lady, who was then headlining a bill at the Palace Theater, New York. It took her some days to reach a deci- sion, but reach it she did, and she began rehearsals while still playing two performances daily at the g’a ace. She discovered early in these rehearsals that it was impossible to ad lib Shaw, that he must be memorized well ' since the lapse of & line can throw another player “into the air.” Thus have they m&l%ed the Lillie! h““ e company which appears with Lillie in “Too True !gpefle Good” includes: Hope Willlams, Hugh Sin- clair, Ernest Cossart, Pedro de Cordoba, Leo G. Carroll,-Mirma Phillips, Alex- ander Clark, jr, and Julius Evans.’ BELASCO—“Everybody's Welcome.” | ONI of the unusual highlights of the theatrical season will be the tation by the Messrs. Shubert of he new musical comedy, “Everybody's Welcome,” at the Shubert-Belasco The- ater for two nights only of this week, Priday and Saturday, and with a matinee Saturday afternoon, following its run of many months on Broadway. Its cast is headed by a number of re- nowned musical favorites — Prances | Williams, Oscar Shaw, Ann Penning- | ton, Harriette Lake and Jack Sheeban, | and it also brings the Tom Jones Or- chestra and the Albertina Rasch Dancers. In acenic construction, pictorial em- | bellishment, effective costuming and cast selection, it is announced, nothing | been spared to make the presen- | tation a worthy one, Love in Greenwich Village is the theme of “Everybody's Welcome." cen- | tering around a young couple who live | in s circle of “good times” artists and writers in the sophisticated region of which MacDougall street is the admit- | ted “main stem” Their apartment is in a continual uproar due to the never- ending visits of their gaylife friends. and all their extra money goes for gin and din It is when they endeavor to settle down to a more serious mode of living that the many humorous and dramatic episodes arise The large supporting cast includes Eric Titus, Jean Newcombe, Lucille Os- ‘ forgetting a fast-stepping ehorus of pretty maidens. The book is DANCING. The new siow rhythm Fox Trot—and other PROF. AND MRS ACHER, Bir nw. Class and dance with ;)rehulrn, eve sy and Priday 8 to 11 p.m riva e ool ment MEL 480, Bt 1900 PHIL HAYDEN - Classes Now Forming in Tap Ballet Acrobatic For Both Adults and Children ix Dupont Circle NOrth 8594 3 r’“fi’rfl*fi..‘?}flfii.‘i’n“.‘ Frors THAYER STUDIOS New Classes Now Porming. Featuring BALLET, TAP, MUSICAL COMEDY and ACROBATIC DANCING Adults and Children | beauty. = ™ by Lambert Carroll. the music by Sammy Fain. the lyrics by Irving Kahal and the dances by Willlam Holbrook, while the entire production has been staged by Willlam Caryl. The management seeks to impress the fact that the curtain rises promptly at 815 o'clock on the evening perform- ances and at 2:15 at the matinee. GAYETY—"Kiki-Poo Kuties.” MARION “KIKI” ROBERTS will | play a week's engagement at the Gayety Theater, starting with the usual Sunday matinee today. Her appear-| ance in Washington, following a three weeks' engagement on Broaway, inau- gurates a tour of the larger cities of the country, which will terminate on the West Coast where the tests on her forthcoming screen debut in “Follles Girl" will be made. The vivacious “Kiki” is presenting her own act in addition to the regular burlesque show and is reviving dance routines she did in “Whoopee,” “Rosa- lie,” “Smiles,” and “Rio Rita.” She ap-| peared in Washington in Ziegfeld shows for the past five years as a glorified | Supporting Miss Roberts are “The Kiki-Poo Kuties” featuring Harry “Sitting_Bull” Steppe, assisted by Ann Clafre, Tim Benson, Jim Hall, Palmer Cody, Arda Karlova and Sally O'Don- nell, with a snappy chorus. CLARA CLEMENS, Tuesday. THE Community Institute. ‘Tuesday evening at 8:15 o'clock in the audi- torlum of Central High Community Center, will present Clara Clemens, daughter of Mark Twain, to deliver an intimate story of her father. under the alluring title, “An Evening With Mark ain. The talented daughter o{uA‘x;:erl:l”e famous humorist, who also e of one of the world's distinguished musicians, Ossip Gabrilowitch, is, in her own right, a singer and actress of more than considerable reputation. More recently she has appeared as & guest artist of the Detroit Civic J'hnu?, acting in Galsworthy's “Escape, Sutton Vane’s “Outward Bound,” Noel Coward's “The Marquise,” Shaw's “Saint Joan others. ml‘\i‘lme Clemens will tell an entirely original story of her father Tuesday night, throwing a new light upon his personality and writing methods, from which were evolved such masterpieces as “Tom Sawyer, “Huckleberry Finn" and “Innocents Abroad.” She :g.lh?.k of her own close association im, in the home circle, and will tell of many of his close friends, literary celebrities | of his day. | Tickets are on sale at the T. Arthur | Smith Concert Bureau, A. A. A. head- | quarters, the Willard Ticket Agency and | the Franklin Administration Building. JANET RICHARDS, Tomorrow. MISS JANET RICHARDS will give | the closing talk on “Affairs Po-| litical and International” in her regu- lar ceurse for the présent season to-| morrow morning in the small ball room of the Willard Hotel at 11 o'clock. After | reviewing outstand: developmengs in | the world’s work for the past week, Miss | Richards will rxva a brief resume of 8 number of miscellaneous questions of secondary interest, both home and for- eign, which have been perforce crowded | out of late by developments of para- mount interest in China, Japan and Geneva. On Keith Stage LEE MORSE, Featured in the stage bill at Keith's this week. | How He Directs Films. | “THE direction of motion pictures s much like any other business or | profession,” says Frank Borzage, whose latest Fox production, “After Tomor- row,” isnow at the Fox. “It's largely a matter of first knowing what you are | going to do and then going ahead and doing 1t." | ‘This must have been the premise that sent the man who twice won the gold medal award for the best directorial work of the year and who last season made the four-star picture, “Bad Oirl,” scurrying to New York, while the play which the picture is based was et 15 be seen on the stage, In the company of Sonya Levien, who adapted the John Golden and Hugh Stange play to the screen, Borzage sat through the stage performance of After Tomorrow ht after night until every line and every situation had been analyzed for its full worth as pic- ture material. This same course Was followed by Borzage's preparation for each of his big film hits since he made a three-month study of Paris and the battiefields before he started the cameras cnc)u% on “Tth Heaven," one | his gold medal pictures. | LILLIAN SHADE, Who tops the vaudeville bill at the Earle this week. Pictures Coming Next. ¢(ARNIVAL BOAT,” featuring Bill Boyd, Ginger Rogers and a fine cast, is to be the next picture that will be featured at R-K-O Keith's Theater, if nothing happens to prevent, while the vaudeville program Wil have as its outstanding attraction “Parade of the Stars" including Eddie Carr, Jack Pettit, with Gus Edwards, who is fa- mous for his discovery and develop- ment of stars for the vaudeville stage. * o % x ¢¢PLAY GIRL," co-starring Loretta Young and Winnie Lightner, is due at the Warner Earle Saturday, with a stage bill headed by Renoff, Ranova and Bekefl in a novel dance revue. “Play Girl” concerns an independent sort of a young lady who longs to be a business woman, with financial inde- pendence, instead of a wife, until she meets a certain young man—and then, oh what happens! * X ok x “ OTEL CONTINENTAL,” featur- ing Peggy Shannon and Theodore von Eltz, will be the next screen fea- ture at the Fox Theater. The new stage program with it will bring the Fanchon-Marco “Cosy Corner” idea. * ok k * “HIGH PRESSURE,” with William Powell in his first screen comedy role will come to the Warner Metro- politan Friday of this week. Mr. Powell in this picture is honored with two leading ladies, none other than Evelyn Brent and Evalyn Knapp, as well as with a fine supporting c: The story concerns a smooth but dymanic blonde bond promoter who is too anxious to get rich quickly. * % % x ¢T)ANCING IN THE DARK,” feat- uring Mirlam Hopkins and Jack Oakie, will follow “Arsene Lupin” into the Palace Theater, with “Whirligigs," & New York Capitol Theater revue, as the stage attraction. * ok ko ¢“T'HE GREEKS HAD A WORD FOR THEM" will follow “Arrowsmith” at Loew's Columbia Theater. Childzaniat Fate. FA'll'f: isn’t such a bad old sport, after all! Here is a striking case to prove that it is often considerate and in full measure. Four of the principals in “Racing Youth,” with Slim Summerville and Louise Fazenda, now at the Rialto, started their motion picture careers as “extras.” And now look at them! Slim Summerville, who is said to reach new comedy zeniths in “Racing Youth,” was taken by a prize fighter to the old Keystone studio to make his first picture. Mack Sennett took one look at his pathetic appearance and said: “You're hired.” Now he's a star. Louise Fazenda did almost the same thing with the old Crystal Co. in 1912, Only, she didn't arrive at the studio in company with a prize fighter. Now, she’s a star. Frank Albertson started in extra work § to supplement the small salary he wi making in the laboratory of Femns Players. And now, he's a featured Iagor with promisg of going up the er, Eddie Phillips was plck of extras by Carl et ik af n line the villain in “The Collegi now, he's also a featured player Quite a record, interesting in view of the fact that these four peopls are all se=n in “Racing Youth. His First American Role. RONALD COLMAN plays his first role as an American, s0 it is nounced, in “Arrowsmith,” with Helen Hayes, now at the Columbia. ‘This picture, based on the Sinclair Lewis Noble Prize winning novel of the same name, is sald to be the greatest production in the career of both of these brilllant actors. Colman is seen as Arrowamith, the doctor who sacrifices everything to attain his goal in the feld of medicine. Miss Hayes has the important role of Arrowamith's wife, who shares everything with her hus- b:_ndiexrcfi surc'caur o WET OR DRY! You'll Want to See the Prohibition Fair April 17-23 Washington Auditorium GAYETY BURLESK NOW PLAYING THE FRONT-PAGE GIRL OF 1932 Marion “Kiki” Roberts IN PERSON Drama in Week'’s Pictures! A New Star at Keith's dram57Charles Farrell Nixon—Summerville FOX—"After Tomorrow 6« FTER TOMORROW." the Fox emotional drama taken from the play of the stage by John Golden and Hugh Stange, is now b at the Fox Theater. It presents Charles Farrell, in & new-type role, and Marian Nixon, as the sweethearts. The drama con- cerns two everyday youngsters, who want to get mar- ried but cannot be- cause of their de- pendent families, Rather than go against their par- ents’ wishes they seek relief in the thought that “After Tomorrow” life would be brighter. The supporting cast is headed by Minna Gombell, as the girl's mother, and Willlam CS’:- ler, sr, as e Charles ell. father. Others are et Josephine Hull, Nora Lane, William Pawley and Ferdinand Munier. Frank Borzage, maker of “Seventh Heaven" and “Bad Girl," directed the production. On the stage Fanchon & Marco are presenting the “Modern Minstrels” idea, with Tyler Mason, Bruce Jordan, Harry Van Fossen, Three Page Boys, Juggling Nelson, Esther Cimpbell and the Sun- kist Beauties. especially arranged overture and the Fox Movietone News completes the bill EARLE—"Behind the Mask.” 'l‘RlPLE-P'EATURE week at Warner's Earle this week presents Jack Holt and Boris Karloff in “Behind the Mask," a Columbia mystery thriller; Bing Cros- by in his latest singing comedy subject “Dream House,” and a vaudeville pro- gram headed by Lilllan Shade, musical comedy star. “Behind the Mask” is a story of a mysterious, dreaded figure, hiding be- hind a mask. Any one whovinterferes with his develish plans is put to death or cruelly tortured. The leader of & notorious gang, not even his loyal co- workers know his identity. Not until the last few feet of the film, when the mask is torn from his features, is he revealed, and this only after a series of adventures in which he performs many flendish things. Running through this mystery is a love romance between Jack Holt and Constance Cummings. Besides Boris Karloff, the supporting cast in- cludes Claude King, Bertha Mann, Ed- ward Van Sloan and Willard Robertson. “Dream House,” the Bing Crosby screen comedy, is said to be his best singing-acting picture. Heading the stage bill is Lilljan Shade, a new Broadway musical comedy celebrity, making her only Washington appearance before stardom in a new “Music Box Revue.” Other acts include Chris Charlton, the different magician; Dave Jones and Peggy in a dance revue, three Cossacks in sensational skating, and Maxine Doyle, mistress of cere- monies. The program also includes the Graham McNamee newsreel and a prel- ude by the Earle Orchestra. PALACE—"Arsene Lupin.” JOHN and Lionel Barrymore, it is claimed, appear for the first time together in the screen production “Ar- sene Lupin." This story was selected as thelr first co-starring venture be- cause of its many possibilities for both actors, It also is said that this production will leave but little doubt in the minds of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as to the winner of next year's award for the best male per- formance. A deep love story is entwined into the plot. which concerns a man who stole jewelry and women's hearts, and his brother, who was forced to be his pursuer. i On the Palace stage a Capitol The- ater, New York, revue holds sway and boasts of many well known Loew acts, including Walter Dare Wahl, Frankie Finn and Rita Delano. KEITH'S—"The Office Girl.” KElTH'S THEATER is now offering as its screen attraction “The Office Girl,” which introduces to America a lamorous Viennese star, Miss Renate Muller. Also, it brings to the American screen Jack Hulbert, who ranks in Eng- land among the best of the screen and stage comedians. Radio Pictures, spon- soring this British screen production in the United States, is confident Miss Muller is headed for a highly successful screen career in this country. The pic- ture was produced in England by Gains- borough It is a musical production with several songs that may prove pop- ular here. ‘The RKO vaudeville portion of the new program features Miss Lee Morse distinguished for her crooning radlo voice: Nine Olivette, a product of Broadway, whose comedy is aided and abetted by her “nine cheer leaders: Charles “Slim" Timblin, with a study in blackface that makes for laughter; Harry Savoy, who styles himself the | ml!fll’ of Goophar Town, and Aussie | and Czech, who bring a flash of the life in _the Argentine. Peter Laurini, guest The Perfect Picture! CHARLES FARRELL Illil, NIXON in FANCHON & MANCO'S Exetiguy “Modern Minstrels” Idea ng_shown | Al Mitchell conducts an | — Good Vaudeville Pi_- Plays Opposite Marian and Fazenda Starred. conductor, and the Pathe News also are important features of the program. | RIALTO—"Racing Youth,” A THRILL-DOTTED comedy, & talk- ing picture that has the smell of the automobile racing track, is attract- | ing large audiences at the Rialto The- | ater, where Slim Summerville and | Louise Fazenda are appearing in Uni- versal Pictures' new production, “Racin Youth,” an original story by Ear! Snell, who also wrote the dialogue. Its supporting cast, under the direction of Vin Moore, includes Frank Albertson, June Clyde, Arthur Stuart Hall, Forrest Stanley, Otis Harlan and Eddie Phillips. It is a romance that mixes in equal measure exhilarating speed with gay and gallant humor, quite like the type of picture that whirled the late Wallace Reid to picture fame, with the same distinctly American background and the same kind of romantically funny situ- ations. In addition, the Rialto offers a list of selected short subjects, including Graham McNamee in the newest of the Univer- sal News editions. COLUMBIA—"Arrowsmith.” “ARROWSMITH," Sinclair Lewis'! Nobel prize for literature, re- mains a second week at Loew's Colum- bia Theater, where it serves as a star- ring vehicle for Ronald Colman. with Helen Hayes in the leading feminine role. “Arrowsmith” is the tale of a man who loved two things, his wife and his | | profession. It is also the story of & woman who followed her husband ‘lhrnuuh adversity and disappointment, but not to success Included in its cast are such sterling actors as Richard Bennett. A. E, An- son, Alec Francis and Myrna Loy. | A “series of selected short subjects augument the feature production. METROPOLITAN. roken Lullaby.” 'HE management of the Warner Bros. Metropolitan Theater, in response to evident demand for “Broken Lull- aby,” the sensational picture directed by the German genius, Ernest Lubitsch, is holding it over for a second week. The picture has been hailed by some | critics as the “finest talking picture ever | made.” | . “Broken Lullaby,” adapted from Mau. rice Rostand's pl “The Man I Killed,” is a powerful dramatic story of a re- morseful young man who falls in love with the sweetheart of the man he | killed. It is a simple and heart-warm- ing story of a tragedy that becomes & beautiful romance. Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll and Phillips Holmes are seen in the title | roles. The cast also includes Tom Douglas, ZaSu Pitts, Lucien Littlefleld, Louise Carter, Emma Dunn and Tully Marshall. | The program also presents “The Sub- | way Symphony,” a musical novelty: a new Bosco song cartoon “Big Hearted Bosco.” and the latest issue of the | Paramount Sound News. Real Novelties. ¢ A FTER TOMORROW," the current week's picture at the Fox, is said to be filled with attractive novelties. For instance, it has one whole scene, | with William Collier, senior, and Mrs. Josephine Hull as the chief actors, in| | which the humor and amusing repartee | |is entirely their own and replaces the | original script dialogue. Frank Borzage, | who directed the picture, took the re- sponsibility of making the change, and now everyhody seems to be glad he had the courage. Another novelty is the character of a sentimental mother, who is promptly provided with a suitor by her own son and then left to chase after happiness. | Still another is the theme of the story, | which concerns two young people so much in love that naturally they want to marry, but are prevented because each has a dependent family whose needs demand their help—and so they | drift into the mistaken notion that “out in the great beyond” (“After Tomor- row”) they may find the culmination of their affection. It is a quite unusual story and quite as unusual a picture, if the advance | representative has correctly reported | the facts. "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Saturday Afternoon, March 26 at 3:00 O’Clock Joseph Haydn Bicentennial MR. GUSTAV HOLST, Lecturer THE ROTH QUARTET Tickets at T, Arth i 3 E N, esinning Mondsy "Maren Tor_each tiekei, 25 | | i The Somathies, EW “The OFFICE GIRL” with the Glamorous Vienned Star RENATE MULLER and the Fomous Eccentric Comedian JAC :l"l.lll'l‘ 4-STAR-RKO VAUDEVILLE BILL MisS LEE MORSE NINA OLIVETTE ONAS. “SLIM" TIMBLIN MAERY SAVOY AUSSIE_ & OzEOR “STAl lCa:m;‘ ADE" Prestniet b, 0 us FoWARDS March 18th & 19th SHUBERT BELASCO Nighte and Sat. Mat. Only WALTER DARE WAHL, A star of the “Impressions of 1932" revue at the Palace this week. Annie Russell Returns. Afllfl! RUSSELL will dedicate the Annle Russell Theater, at Rollir College, at Winter Park, Fla., the eve- ning of March 20 by returning to the stage after 12 years to appear as the Queen in Robert Browning’s poetic | drama “In a Balcony” She will be supported by Rollo Peters and Mary Hone. The play is being produced and directed by Miss Russel] To those who admired Miss Russell’s art in her prime as a comedienne her return to the stage is a joyous antici- pAtion. Miss Russell will take active charge of the theater by producing and directing professional performances in accordance with the high standards she 50 consistently maintained as an artist. There is no commercial implication, of course, in this event, but it is un- doubtedly important news in the theater The Annie Russell Theater was given to Rollins College by Mrs. Edward W. Bok of Philadelphia in honor of her life- long friend, Miss Russell. Mrs. Bok will attend the dedicatory performance. At the Gayety MARION “KIKI” ROBERTS, Star of the Gayety's producion this week. JANET RICHARDS Affairs Political and Internatienal Last Talk of Winter Course Monday Morning at 11 Willard Hotel (Small I} ) ard, Jel (Bppat Ban Bowm re “l@lllh iuflfim" “ “Jiack HOT¥ =" BORIS KARLOFF BING CROSBY Song Film “Dream House" LILLIAN $HADE ND 3 BIG ACTS “The G INST 'TSCH'S - Formerly “Man I Kl LIONEL BARRYMOR! NANCY CARROLL x PHILLIPS HOLMES Selocted t joets White's “Scandals.” |"T© meet the demand for highest | grade entertainment at a popular scale of prices, George White will pre- sent his newest edition of the “Scan- dals” at the Wash- ington Auditorium for a week, begin- ning Sunday eve- ning, March 20 Because of the in- creased seating c acity of this pla: se, ‘“Scandals will be seen here at “a revolution- ary _popular-price scal prices for evening will range from 50 cents to $3, and matinee prices Wednesday and Saturday from 50 cents to $2.50. ‘The forthcoming “Scandals” cast includes such names as Willie and Eugene Howard, Rudy Vallee, Ethel Barrymore Colt, daughter of a famous mother; Everett Marshall, | baritone _of the Metropolitan Opera | House; Ray Bolger, the Gale Quad- ruplets, Barbara Blair, Maxine and Virginia Loomis, Joan Abbott, Fred Manatt, Ross MacLean, Peggy Moseley, Hilda Knight, Joseph Vitale, Hazel Boffinger and a large ensemble of “the Rudy Vallee. most beautiful and talented show girls Hotel on the stage.” | Coming Attractions BLACK AND WHITE REVUE. MIANAGER LAKE of the Gayety """ Theater has announced that his next attraction, starting with a matinee a week from today, will be the Black and White Revue, with & east of 70 people, including Elmer Calloway and his “Hot From Harlem” Orchestra and the Club Pru e (the Cotton Club of the South) stage show. “OLIVIA BOWS TO MRS. GRUNDY.” ANAGER L. STODDARD TAYLOR of the Shubert-Belasco states that, under the auspices of the Professional Players. Roland Bottomley's new com- edy. “Olivia Bows to Mrs. Grundy.” with Janet Beecher in the leading role, sup- ported by a fine cast of players, has been booked for appearance at the Shu- bert-Belasco for the week beginning Monday evening, March 28. The cast will include, among others, Taylor Holmes, a star in his own right; Sidney Greenstreet, Fleming Ward, Jane W Nicholas Joy and Evelyn Carter C: {}llnglun. It will be staged by the au- or. Incidentally that subscript of the Prof. now being Manager Taylor states s for the third se n nal Players’ offering: ved at the box Mr. Taylc Is0 announces far off as April 18 probably will make its appearance at the Shubert-Belasco. J Bernailr;d; Shgl\gf’sfi Play. THERE are those who take George Bernard Shaw's white halr for an cuse and call him Saint Bernard. He es no such stock in gnation, but sounds his own title, Dramatic Emperor of Europe.” This gets to the point that the “Dramatic Emperor of Europe.” meaning Mr. Shaw, is now having his newest play presented in Washington by the Theater Guild at the National Theater. True to Be Good,” not “Too Good to Be True,” as the proofreader often insists upon making it. Though the Theater Guild is but 12 years old, it considers that it attained its majority within a year or two after its organization, for then the renowned Mr. Shaw did this group the distin- | guished favor of letting it produce his then new “Heartbreak House.” Since that time the Guild has done many of | his plays, making a point to produce & Its title is “Too | ecclesiastical | | mew one or o revive an old one every | year. |* The list of Mr. Shaw's the Guild has produced includes “Arms and the Man,” “The Man of Destiny,” “The Devil's Disciple,” “Caesar and | Cleopatra.” “Major Barbara,” “The Doc- tor's Dilemma,” “Getting Married,” | “Back to Methusaleh.” “Saint Joan,” “The Apple Cart,” and now “Too Trus to Be Good.” This latest play Shaw himself sets 'down as a “collection of sermons by a | Fellow of the Royal Society of Litera- | ture.” It is something of a comic | “Heartbreak House,” dealing lightly and | airily with various post-war problems of morals and other forms of behavior, | national and personal. “Too True to | Be Good” will be the fourteenth Shaw i piece brought out by the Guild. SAMUEL COLDWYN Prssenta. owsmi Soids MELEN HAYES " H!\IYIB IIYI"S!ASNI'I MNM'GREEKS HAD A WJORD FOR THEM ” e S A Bow WASHINGTON WEEK ONLY BEGINNING NEXT AUDITORIUM SUNDAY NIGHT “ NO PERFORMANCE GOOD FRIDAY BOX OFFICE OPEN 10A. M. TO 7P, M. FIRST TIME AT THESE SENSATIONAL PRICES MATINEES WED. & SAT. 50¢ t0$2.50 GEORGE ALL NIGHTS 50c to $3.00 THE HIT OF HITS ~ 11¢h-EDITION WHITE'S In an- | other sense of the word, it will be the eighteenth, since “Back to Methusaleh™ was actually a sequence to five different plays, designed in that fas| Shaw but rearranged by th as to be presented in three perform: instead of five. Since the second or third produ of his plays by the Guild, Shaw turned over to the Guild the ‘exclusive rights to his works in this country, so that now any one wishing to perform his plays must seek the Guild's perm son, and the Guild must say the appli- cant nay unless satisfied that a good production will result. These are said to be Shaw's orders. "CLARA CLEMENS (Daughter of \Mnrk Twain) n “Reminiscences of My Father” CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTER T3 & Clifton Sts 8:15 P.M. Willard, Tuesday, Mareh 15, Seats selling: T. Arthur Smith's, A. A, and at_the door. NATL. THEATER, Tues, Mar. 15—4:30 Most _Colos Production E NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF WASHINGTON. D. C. HANS KINDLER, Conducter CONSTITUTION HALL, Thursday, Margh 17, 4:48 ND The Washington Choral Festival Association Chorus ‘Pri es, $2.75, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00, TSe Tickets Mrs. Wilson-Greene's _Concert | Burean, Droop's, 1300 G st.; Distriet 6498 24 BRLC 1343 Wisconsin A WINNIE LIGHT- 8. B! RWORTH | PRRABE. " O Cameds, ROBT, 3 Cartoon. 1st & W 1. Avy a1l sl ' BUSTER KEATON, Comedies. News Reel. Al ANITA A . W, 2 e e Geresn JAMES DUNN, SALLY EILERS, “DANCE TEAM.” Near oth T DIREA N_&ID] HIPPODROME ok, “835. 028 Joan Crawford-Clark Gable “POSSESSED” CAMEQ XT, SAINGER. v, Sylvia Sidney in “Ladies of Big House” ARCADE FraTzavmgr o, Joan Crawford-Clark Gable “POSSESSED"” & N. C. Ave. SAFE \h DOROTHY MACKA or! TAKOMA % i DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR.. in “UNION DEPOT" Cl gt" COM&Y.MA oM N St NE. Warner Bros. Warner Bros’ Conn, v, snd MeKinley . D. O ¥ ATIONAL | rowor.viem Foge. $1 to $3 Jo& 7Scto$2 i 7Scto $2.50 @he THERTRE GUILD, Ime ave. 8% GARBO and_RAMON NO- AT WAL Call This Week for G st Lesson, No Charse HOW GOOD RUDY WILUESEUGENE EVERETT _ VALLEE-HOWARD-MARSHALL DANCING . o RAY _ ETHEL BARRYMORE GALE ity ey ACK T JONE n BOLGER ~ COLT — QquADRUPLETS What better way to broade: ” : m I““.I“' L:’.i‘.flslm j‘ . "An"n' g v B n oy, oss oan, oanna Dan Wakely g’u“"}?fii’i‘éfig’;fififit g Hilda Knight, Joseph Vitale, Mazs! Boffinger, James Howard & introduction. e SETTINGS BY ¥ SONES BY LEW BROWN SKETCHES BY GEORGE WHITE 7| JOSEPH URBAN AND RAY HENDERSON LEW BROWN & IRVING CAESAR Entire Production Conseived & Staged by GEORGE WHITE If you are unable to visit the box-office, choice seats may be reserved by mail. Send self- dta.rnul. stamped envelope Mal check or money order payable to George Whit NIGHTS 50c TO $3.00. SAT. MAT. THE SAME. NO PHONE OR MAIL ORDERS. NO TAX. ———— e WEEK MONDAY, MARCH 28th--SEATS THURSDAY Sixth Play of the Professional Players Second Subscripiion Bessen “Olivia Bows to Mrs. Grundy” A New Comedy by ROLAND BOTTOMLEY WITH JANET BEECHER And An Eminent Coat of Artiats Including st || L e T T B g T HOME e .?:O AR GO oRRD Warner Bre TIVOLI ““14h & Park Ba. N. WILL ROG! “ Pk B BUSINESS AND Let Mr. Thayer's talented in- structors show you how easily and pleasantly you can learn the new steps. Call this week for a ten-minute guest lesson. Studio open until 10 P.M. Leroy H. Thayer Studios 1308 Conn. Ave, in Warn. YORK% “Ave. & Quebes St. N.W. J RV 40d, BALLY EILERS