Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1933, Page 33

AMUS Fact and Fancy in Plans Of the Cinema Producers ldealism of Jesse Lasky as Told by Leslie Howard and the Translation of Stage Plays to the Screen. By E. de S. Melcher. ESLIE HOWARD, actor, author, director and film star, England- bound from Hollywood, recently stopped long enough in New | York to present a few ideas which he has gathered since he | Mr. Howard being something of a scholar as | well as an actor, his words bear repeating. i Said he to Writer John Lardner: “I'll have had enough pictures | to last me quite a while” (by this he means when he has finished | “Berkeley Square” for Jesse Lasky). “It's drudgery, though we can't | complain as long as the drudgery is pretty profitable. I want to get back to the stage. Some day, perhaps, when the pictures have grown up a little more, and some original writers get to Hollywood, and | they sto» adapting plays, an actor will have a real opportunity out L journeyed West. there. “They course, shouldn't adapt plays. Of there's a dearth of original writers, and the producers are on lairly | in the dialogue that Mr Howard talks safe ground when they work on a suc- about, and visualize the curtain going up and coming down. cessful play. But, as a rule. the picture retains all the technical stiffness of the | play and loscs its quality. You can tell on the screen just where the curtain fell and the act ended in the original, and you can guess the number of acenes. Then the dialogue is all chopped up and loses its meaning. I 'understand,” continued Mr. How- ard. “that Sherwood Anderson believes that book writing is a dead art and that the future of all writers lies in Holly- wood. That's probably true. This is certainly a tough time for writers. It's up to the author whether he wants to score a popular success or an individual success. For a popular success he should go to the picturss. There he can reach millions of people instead of a few thousand. Heaven knows, there's plerty of rcom for writers, good ones, in Hollywood! Mr. Howard's contention that good plays do not necessarily make good films and that “the picture retains the | technical stiffness of the play and loses it quality” seems like good, sense. Although. as he also states. “the producers are on fairly safe ground when they work on a successful play.” the result seldom works out as well as both stage and screen had perhaps | imagined. We are still convinced that Jesse Lasky is right—that the screen must work out its own treatments—taking care of plot and characters in a highly specialized form. This he aspires to have accomplished in “The Power and the Glory.” which will be reieased in the near future. In the meantime, however, by think- ing back over the plays that have been made into films this season. you can get a rough idea of what Mr. Howard means. “Reunion in Vienna,” for instance, was a splendid film. nicely acted, elab- orately executed and retaining much of the substance of the original. It was not, however, the spicy. sophisti- cated Robert Sherwood lark that it was on the stage. And the cinema public didn't take to it because they thought it unnecessarily “silly.” On the stage it wasn't that at all—so what? alcade,” as far as we could see, couldn't possibly have been improved upon. Nevertheless. & Warner Broth- ers executive has told us that the film was a failure in the small towns— that in places where they never had heard of the Boer War or the Titanic it meant nothing ‘This we can under- stand. ‘When Ladies Meet” was one of the Out Where the Movies Begin Fine Pictures Next Year for Each of Several Favorites Is Plan of Producers—Quantity Sacrificed for Quality. BY MOLLIE MERRICK. | HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 1 (NA.! N.A.).—Some of Hollywood's favorites will make two pictures next year—an interesting commentary on how pro- | ducers are gauging the coming sea- son’s product There will be two for Marlene Dietrich, who is considered one of the main box office attractions of this place. | And Mae West, who broke all box-, office records in gelatin history with “She Done Him Wrong" will make two pictures also. This proves that the producer of | 1933-34 feels it is better to put out two | knockout pictures carefully written, | carefully made and correctly exploited | than to turn out four or six in a slip- | shod manner. Dorothea Wieck, latest importation at Paramount, will make two pictures.| The Marx brothers will make one— “Duck Soup.” one of the super-directors of this vil- Iage, will shoot four pictures, three in | addition to “This Day and Age” on which he is now working. Two of them will be “The End of the World,” based on a novel by Phillip Wylie and Edwin Balmer, “When Worlds Collide,” and “Four Prightened People,” from a book of E. Arnot Robertson. 7, Mae West will make “I'm No Angel” | with Gary Grant, and “It Ain’t No 8in.” | She will write the script for these | largely herself, since nobody can do the sort of dialogue Mae West reads in perfection quite 30 well as Mae West. “Design for Living.” the Noel Coward | Iy which Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fon- Fatine sucopeded so splendidly with in | New York last season, is belng adapted | carefully for Lubitsch. Working on it for the last two months has been Sam Hoflenstein, whose collaboration has been with the director himself since the play in its original form is scarcely calculated to be ideal motion picture material. When it is released there is Ro doubt that it will be correct for| their purpose. Other changes in picture-making methods include the naming of new directors who are considered artists of value to the making of pictures. Lee Garmes, ace cameraman for many years in Hollywood, will be made a di- | rector on the Fox lot. For 18 years Garmes has stood be- hind the cameras, contributing ex- quisitely to the success of each picture he has touched. “Zoo in Budapest,” with its magnificent camera technique e=Conditionsd Alr—Carefally Cosled— S/Way $°8 botter show of . JOEITH'S 3¢ ‘WHAT PRICE INNOCENCE?’ ! Lere’ PARI . Next Friday CONSTANCE || BENNETT | d of Roses” solid | | tinct being. What it is heading for is | wood whimsy. And Cecil B. de Mille, | ™ | practical opportunity to observe and EMENTS pleasantest of the season's films. Nev- eriheless, you could hear the creaking | “Lilly Turne;” was a bad play—and | an even worse film. Althcugh “Another Language” is being filmed with an almost super- naturally good cast (Helen Hayes is in it), we doubt if it will have that sort | of household warmth which kept the play alive and made it seem as near to the audience as some of the audience's own home parlor. * * % HAT, then, is the substitute for plays? The ‘sort of thing that the screen has been doing more and more of is the sort of thing that the stage is beginning to_copy in its own right. We mean the action. musical. char- | acter study, with the camera swinging | into its stride, and music a more im- | portant, factor. We visualize the screen as one of the most attractive and in-: dividualisic art mediums ever created, when it has assimilated the myriads of possibiiities which it is preparing just | now. If you watch closely the methed | employed in “Midnight Mary” you will| see a little what we mean. By the striking of a gigantic musical chord, by a sudden twisting and turning of the | camera, by annotating the mental re- | | actions of the main characters pictor- | ially and musically, by doing away more and more with the old fashioned “pose. by almost blinding the audience by the | swiftness and forcefulness of thought deed and action. you have created some- thing which is very different from what | the stage has ever been doing. | Dialogue in this medium is not the | stilted outgrowth of the stage. It doesn't have to conform to the one-two- | three steps that stage characters are | allowed. It must wait for the compli- cated processes which the camera and the music and the mental imaginings have to take before it can be effective. Thus it immediately becomes an art in itself, and not something which has been borrowed from the footlights. ‘The new cinema medium has many possibilities—in fact, its horizon is end- less. You can't say that the films are down at the heels because they are not imitating the stage. The misakes that are being made are the ones they are borrowing from the theater. The screen should be. for once and for all, & dis- something quite apart from its mother parent. At least, it will be if the chiefs| get together with Mr. Lasky and realiz | that his idealism is not plain Holly- ‘There is fact in back | of his mind as well as fancy. commented upon by all who saw it, put | Hio over the top. Garmes has arrived at that stage in his work where he will not take a pic- | ture which does not inspire him or one | which he is not convinced will be a! success. Once he agrees to work on a picture, he gives ideal co-operation. His | splendid results are derived from the | following reasoning: “In all stories there are peaks of ac- tion and peaks of emotional movement. In between there are building-up places—spots of comedy relief, explana- | tory passages and so on. I plan my, work as a cameraman to intensify and beautify these spots. But when the| peak of emotion or the peak of action | is arrived at, the camera should be only a medium for interpretation of that | action or emotion—a medium | which fthould not, in any way, interfere I'“.h{; “Camera is 75 per cent of motion | picture success. The picture is nlfi a photographic art and no matter how fine our dialogue, how rapid our ac- tion or how clever our actors, they still stand or fall by the way the camera ts them. “In most camera artist directors there is a tendency to watch the eye appeal | and let the action go. Often the story gets away from the director, who is an artist of camera, with sad results. And results may be even when the cam- era work is beautiful. “I shall try to remember the things T have observed from time to time in working with big directors. The cam- era man, if he wishes, has the most study at close range the methods of {ncture {mkflgg{ both h{rom a construc- ive angle and from the angle of profit- ing by others’ mistakes.” Lee Garmes is hunting a story up for himself right now. True to his instinct for picture making. he wants tI story to be one in which he can have fine enthusiasm. Directors nowadays are given quite a latitude in this matter. Producers do not force upon them stories which they consider hopeless. Sometimes the di- rector will be ready for six months be- fore he will find something to his liking | 50 Lee Garmes promises from his cam- era record to be another Murnau. This | famous director of “Sunrise” and other successes. was an artist of camera first. | So was Von Sternberg. Such men bring | a magic to the cinema when they have | story sense. And more of them will be chosen! from the ranks in future: Hollywood must turn out good pictures this year. | WARNER BROS COOLTHEATRES| NOW SHOWING o JULY FROLIC ©F Jovous GAverY On Soum RICHARD BARTHELMESS LORETTA YOUNG ALINE MACMAHON Current Attractions. ** JULY FROLIC" is the current stage offering at Warner Bros. Earle Theater. Comprising 14 entertain- ment units, the show is headed by the jovial, rotund Johnny Perkins, stage and screen comedian, assisted by Ruth Petty, the 18 Gertrude Hoff- man girls. Arnaut Brothers, Tommy and Betty Wonder, and other surprises The screen attraction is “Heroes for Sale.” in which the featured roles are played by Richard Barthelmess, Lo- retta Young and Alice MacMahon. Bobby Jones' third Vitaphone golf lesson in his new series. entitled “Hip Action”: Graham MacNamee newsreel nd the Earle orchestral prelude com- plete the program. Loretta Young, supported by Fran- chot Tone and Ricardo Cortez. are | featured in “Midnight Mary,” a drama | of the underworld, written by Anita Loos. famous magazine Wwriter, now playing at Loew's Fox. The film, which was made under the direction of Willlam Wellman for Metro-Gold- dyn-Mayer, tells how a girl. born in the slums, and associated with under- world characters, manages to show her true self when the occasion arises. Una Merkel, Andy Devine and Warren Hy- mer are also in the cast. America’s foremost exponent of tap dancing. Pat Roon headlines the stage bill with his son. Pat Rooney, 3d. Comedy, dancing and singing are brought to the stage by Joe Morris & Co. Medley and Dupree, a comedy team, and the world-famous Paul Remos and his wonder midgets con- clude the bill. Phil Lampkin has taken for his overture “America Forever.” “What Price Innocence” is the cur- rent, attraction at R-K-O Keith's. The picture features the youthful play- er. Jean Parker, and the veteran of both stage and screen, Willard Mack. In tne instance of Mr. Mack he mot only wrote the story but directed it as well, and then in addition plays the important role of the doctor. Oth- ers in the cast are Minna Gombell, Ben Alexander, Betty Grable and the former star of the silent days, Bryant ‘Washburn. An interesting list of supplementary features constitute the balance of the present Keith bill. “Gold Diggers of 1933, the cur- rent screen attraction at Warner Bros. Metropolitan Theater, will end one of the most phenomenal runs that any picture ever had in Washington on Thursday night of this week, to make room for a new attraction. The names of Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee, Ginger Rogers and Ned Sparks head the cast. There are 300 girls in the chorus. Owing to the length of the feature and the variety of the entertainment it possesses, the latest issue of the Paramount sound news is the only struction, the only cost being the reg-| short subject on the program. Jean Harlow and Clark Gable in “Hold Your Man” is the current film at Loew's Palace Theater. Miss Har- low plays the role of a gaudy creature who is willing to allow herself to be- come involved in a love racket for the sake of her man. Gable plays the part of a cheap crook who thinks every girl he meets will fall for him. ‘The supporting cast is composed of Stuart Erwin, Derothy Burgess, Muriel Kirkland, Garry Owen, George Reed and Elizabeth Patterson. The balance of the bill is made up with an Andy Clyde comedy, an Educational travel- talk and the Hearst Metrotone News. Conrad Nagel and Leila Hyams bring | to the screen of Loew’s Columbia The- ater tomorrow Eugene O'Neill's stage play, “The Constant Woman,” pro- duced by World Wide Pictures and di- rected by Victor Schertzinger. The story revolves around a tent show. The supporting cast is composed of Claire Windsor, Tommy Conlon, _Stanley Pields, Pred Kohler. Robert Ellis and Lionel Belmore. Short subjects and the Paramount News will complete the bill. el B oy 1T CHARLES FARRELL has been signed to play the leading romantic role i the forthcoming R-K-O Radio Pic- ture adaptation of Joseph O'Kessel- ring's play, “Ageie Appleby, Maker of en,” announc Merian C. Cooper, xecutive producer. Helen Mack will be Aggie herself, this being the most imposing role to date offered the popular character in- genue, who h talents by her rol and “Fog Boun in “Melody Cruise” Helen Broderick, | Broadway musical comedy star, is also prominently cast. Tomorrow AND THE GLORIOUS d4th FOR GOOD TIMES AT FINE FEATURES AND REFRESHING SWIMMING IN CRYSTAL POOL WASH. RY. & zi:.lgi‘ <. RS Sl ol e OB s recently proved stellar | | Upper left: Richard Barthelmess as he appears at the Earle in his new picture, “Herces for Sale,” and &t right Jean Harlow as the heroine of the f¢ ure at Loew's Palace, “Hold Your Man.” Below is a scene from “Bed of Roses,” the Constance Bennett-Joel McCrea film which is due Friday at R-K-O Keith's. | Where and When in Local Theaters COLUMBIA—“Sunset Pass,” at 2:55,4:40,6:25,8:10 and 9:55 p.m. !'| R-K-O KEITH'S “What Price Innocence?” at 2, 3:57, 5:54, 7:51 and 9:48 pm. LOEW'S FOX—"Midnight Mary,” at 2, 4:29, 7:17 and 9:46 p.m. Stage shows at 3:33, 6:21 and 8:30. | | PALACE—"“Hold Your Man,” at 2, 3:55, 5:50, 7:45 and 9:40 p.m. | | EARLE—“Heroes for Sale,” and “July Frolic” on stage, this afternoon and evening. ‘; METROPOLITAN—“Gold Digge! ] evening. | | | | SWIMMING AT GLEN ECHO. IN an effort to further the knowledge of swimming and diving in Wash- |ington and vicinity, Crystal Pool at | Glen Echo announces free classes will be conducted from July 5 to 28, In- clusive. The schedule of classes will rs of 1933,” this afternoon and FTER weeks of consideration, during which many storles were carefully weighed, Dolores Del Rio's first R-K-O Radio starring vehicle, under her new | contract, has been definitely selected by Merian C. Cooper, executive pro- ducer. | Cooper announces that “Dance of | Destre” will serve as Miss Del Rio's | Dolores’ Next. | | Next Week's Films | THEODORE DRIESER'S celebrated novel, “Jennie Gerhardt,” has been brought to the screen under the same title by Baramount, and will be shown as the screen attraction of the pro- gram for the week of July 7 at Warner Bros. Earle Theater. Sylvia Sidney plays the title role and she is supported by Donald Cook, Mary Astor and H. B. Warner. The new siage program will feature William and Joe Mandel, the agile comics in their famous = skit, “Quiet Pu-leeze” as well as Ann Pritchard, Rube Demarest and Olive | Sibley and Madie and Ray. RICHARD DIX will return to the | 'R-K-0 Keith screen on Friday in | his newest picture, “No Marriage Ties.” Directed by J. Walter Ruben. the pic- | ture has the distinctive noveity of two | leading ladies in the persons of Eliza- beth_Allen_and Doris Kenyon. Allen Dinehart, Ferdinand Gootschalk and | Richard ' Carle are also prominently | cast in the picture OLLOWING the current run of “Gold Diggers of 1933, which ends Thursday night. Warner Bros. Metro- politan Theater will present as the | major screen attraction “Forgotten | Men.” a motion picture record of the | World War, edited into chronological order from official film just now being released by all nations who partici- | pated. A conglomeration of stars on the | screen and on the stage will be fea- |tured at Loew’s Fox Theater starting next Friday. The screen attraction finds James Dunn and Sally Eilers {co-starred in “Hold Me Tight" in which Frank McHugh. June Clyde, | Noel Francis and Dorothy Peterson are {in the supporting cast. On the stage | will be seen Nan Halperin, merry mad- cap of songs and characters; Harry Savoy, eccentric comedian of weil known fame: Peggy Taylor and Gary Leon, the Kitchen Pirates. with Stuart | Tarrington and Eddie Flynn and the | Norman Thomas Quintette. in a “jam- boree of jazz” As an extra added at- | traction, "Loew’s Fox will present for three days only. Tuesday, Wednesday |and Thursday, July 11, 12 and 13, the | University of Tilinois Men's Glee Club. | _“It's Great to Be Alive,” with Raul Roulein, Gloria Stuart. Edna May Oliver, Herbert Mundin and Joan Marsh, opens at Loew’s Columbia Theater on Monday. July 10. “Storm at Daybreak,” a colorful story of modern Russia, will be seen at Loew's Palace Theater starting next Friday. Nils Asther, Kay Francis and ‘Walter Huston have the leading roles. be as follows: Children, swimming, 10 first vehicle. Donald Henderson Clarke | am; women, swimming, at 10:30, and men at 11 am. At 11:30 am. instruc- |tions will be on mixed diving. and at |7 pm.. swimming lessons for men and | women. No classes will be held on holidays. | There will be no charge for this in- |ular admission to the pool. For those | wishing to attend these classes regular- ly. the director offers special swim tickets. | GEASIDE PARK reaches the peak of its Summer activity this week end | with four days of holiday festivity at | the popular Summer resort. The Chesa- | peake Beach Railway is providing extra !train service during the period, to | handle the anticipated crowds. The park has been gayly decorated | with flags and bunting. Special enter- | tainment has been arranged for to- morrow night at the Boardwalk Ball Room where Bernie Jarboe's Nitehawks play and the Independence day celebra- |tion will be climaxed Tuesday night | with a beautiful pyrotechnic display in | front of the casino. Because of the holiday the usual | Tuesday night movies in the ball room will be dispensed with this week. In- stead, there will be a showing of “The Story of Temple Drake” on Thursday | night. CHILDREN ENJOY BOAT TRIPS. NOW that school days are adjourned and Summer is officially here, many parents are taking their children on the Wilson Line trips to Mount Ver- non and New Marshali Hall Park. With {the natural love that all children have | for a boat trip it is little wonder that the City of Washingtcn carries hun- dreds daily up and down the Potomac | River. SEASIDE PARK. as Kiddies' days on the Wilson Line |and every Monday from now on the Hall Park on the 9:30 and 1:30 boats. Ak dek kAt ik FKEEP COOL! PR PR T TR P T T T T T T T T Ty SEE WASHINGTON AT NIGHT FROM THE AIR Open Ships Used of lighis and shad. sl 50 trip over Wash- o ingten .... = Night Flights Every Night ows, complete air Weather Permitting il M .Mlh“lnfl!ly-“ - Fhone DL 6300 Mondays have again been designated | {rates will be cut in half to Marshall | fiQ*fl*"*t‘ifi‘imfitt'fifiiiflfitthifi‘ is writing the original especially for the star's talents. Myles Connolly will be associate producer. |~ Joel McCrea is being considered as |a strong possibility for the leading | male role opposite Miss Del Rio. Their joint success in “The Bird of Para- | dise” and many fan letters asking that | they appear together again in a new | picture are strong influences in favor of such a decision. Miss Del Rio, for the first time in | her screen career, will be garbed in gorgeous modern gowns for this role and one of America’s leading design- ers is now fashioning her wardrobe. el . é Nana" to Be Filmed. ARREN WILLIAM will have one of the two leading male roles in “Nana,” Samuel Goldwyn's picturiza- tion of the Emil Zola novel that will introduce the Russian Anna Sten to Ame: n film audiences. In “Nana” Willlam has the role of Count Muffat, a patrician nobleman and equerry to the Emperor Napoleon III. The count, as well as his brother, falls victim to the charms of Zola's voluptuous siren. The scene of “Nana” is the gas-lit Paris of 1870, “the city of light,” fresh and bright in its newly laid boule- vards. Edwin Justus Mayer and Leo Birinsky made the adaptation. George Fitzmaurice is directing this Goldwyn picture for United Artists release. o CUNSET PASS TAKE ONE OR STEAMBOAT on the FOURTH OF JULY D8 a8 Take Steamer “City of Washington” to ‘ | MARSHALL (Marshall Hall with new name, new management, new deal) = | If you want to have a wonderful Fourth of July take this trip to Marshall Hall Park! Picnic groves right on the breezy banks of the Potomac. Amusements, rides and all kinds of entertainment for all Lunch on boat if desired Schedule: Daily including Lv. Washington — 930 A. M., 1.30, ‘The most glorious aj on the modern steamship “Ci and there you are! Mt. Vernon L Lv. Washington Lv. Mt. Vernoa at Marshall Hall Park. . Nightly at 8.30 Lv.Marshall Hall Park—12.00 Nooa, 3.43,6.45, 10.23P. M. MOUNT VERNON pproach 1o George Washington's homestead is via the Potomac. Only an hour's run a sight you'll never forget! Lunch on boat if desired. Schedule: Daily except Sundays 930A.M,1.30P. M. 12.20 and 4.03 P. M. M-S%N I%T ?%S with DANCING Enjoy these wonderful evenings on the Potomac River. Searchlight discloses points of interest along shore. Fine orchestra. Perfect dance floor. Boat stops ISON LINE wamaidbe 7on Stroet Wharves NA 2440 SRaSNwns AMUSEMENTS. Low-Priced Hippodrome at D I is a sight for sore eyes these best of seasons. Opera Co. and Corps de Ballet. A queue of ticket buyers hangs from the Sixth avenue entrance of the Hip- | podrome from early morn onward, and | the sight, both outside and inside the big theater, is something New York has | had little of lately, except in the case | of political conventions and prize fights. The crowd itself is a fair cross section | | of the seven millions. There are Latins | | of the sort who fill the top gallery and the standee places at the Metropolitan, and there are Park avenue Nordics in | dinner coats: there are men in straw {hats and men with no hats at all; old | 1adies and school children and young couples who have momentarily deserted the “movies.” The spectacle as the | singers themselves see it—the huge or- | | chestra, balcony and top gallery above | that, and all solid full of people—ought |t> and does, inspire their most re- | doubtable efforts. Marcelline, the fa- mous clown; German acrobats, bathing | beauties in’ tanks of real water and | troops of performing elephants used to enjoy that sight, and now it is rel- ished by Enricos, Giuseppis, Luigis, An- nunciatas and their brother and sister songbirds from overseas, with a sprink- ling of such native names as Charlotte Ryan, Dorothy Chapman and Lawrence Power. ' | AESTRO SALMAGGI'S artists are all old hands at their work, in any case—old in experience, that is to say. They know their operas so well that re- | Learsals are scarcely needed, and the ' performances, both from the point of view of singing and of the orchestra. are thoroughly capable. If there should be loose edges here and there, there is al- ways the comforting thought that you are paying no more than you would for the less nourishing products of Holly- wood. This reassuring thought is not to be sneezed at in times like these, and it | Lelps to produce that genuine holiday air which pervades the Hippodrome and the streets immediately adjacent. Be- |tween the acts the crowd mills about fl the lobby or on the sidewalk or 100ps across the street to one of the neighboring refectories, Where pretty | niearly real beer is dispensed across real | vars by what look to be real bartenders. | { For those who stick to their seats there are candy and ice cream and orangeade “butchers,” hawking their wares up and down the long aisles and in the foyers. In short, something like the atmosphere of a real volksfest has been achieved right in the center of Manhattan, and | anybody who can create such a phe- nomenon in this 1933d year of grace de- | | serves the title of public benefactor. | Trifling scratches on the smooth sur- !fece of Maestro Salmaggi's enterprise have been made by horny-handed proc- ess servers, alleging that the Sunday evening performances violate section something or other of the penal code touching on the vexed subject of Sab- bath entertainments. The answer to these summonses has been that the Sunday evening shows have been ‘‘bene- fits.” In any case, they went merrily on. The experiment has been so tre- mendously successful that, after this early Summer fling has been completed Maestro Salmaggi promises an Autumn season at the same prices. Moreover | there are to be German as well as Ital- ian operas, with real dragons. Rhine maidens and other fauna, doubtless, as there was a real bull for “Carmen.” ‘ | MEANWHILE the “regular” theater | shows have been gradually folding up and calling it a Broadway entertainments closed a yesterday, five more closed yester- | v, bringing the available number | |down to five. “Good-bye Again” fin-| isned & 27-week run last evening and “Biography” lay of the 1932-'33 season. cheering fact that the play the longest run of any | It is a| which ALL OF THESE EXCURSIONS HALL PARK | ages. Sundey 3.30, 830 P. M. DIRECTION OF S0 ROUND TRIP Children, 23¢ (Plus 25¢ admission t© Mt. Vernon) 55¢ | _GEORGE BRENT. lfiUMB’A'RTON i3k {FAIRLAWN o 8MS°SHAR; “PERFECT _UNDEI PRINCESS “e/* WARNER BROS. THEATERS . 1 > New York Goes in for Grand Opera Maestro Sa]maddi. Who Produced at Griffith Stadium in Washington, Is Filling the Old epre uion pl’iCGl. By Percy Hammond. HE Hippodrome, once one of the show places of New York and of late years fallen from its original high estate to the status of a white elephant rather hard pressed to pay its own rent, hot evenings. Packed to the roof, with hundreds turned away, it brings into dog-day Manhattan and a theater world troubled with all sorts of ills the cheering air of a going concern enjoying a success rare even in Midwinter and in the ‘The magic lamp which has brought about this metamorphosis is Italian opera at popular prices—25 cents to $1—and the Aladdin who has done the rubbing is Maestro Alfredo Salmaggi and his Chicago achieved the latter feat was perhaps the most brilliantly written and acted comedy of the year. Mr. Behrman, its author, deserves the adjective “sophisti- cated” in the best sense of that rather misused word, and his play was corre- spondingly acted by Miss Ina Claire and the entire supporting company. As fast as the city shows close Sum- mer shows open at the dozens of Sum- mer theaters, extending all the way from the nearby suburbs to the Berkshire Lills and the cool coast of Maine. Stat- isticians upon such matters tell us that no less than 55 professional companies are thus scattered over the resort hin- terland round about New York and in New England. Chamberlain Brawn carries the Sum- mer theater idea into New York with a_series of revivals at the Mansfleld Theater. Mr. Brown came before the curtain at the first night of his offer- ing, “The Church Mouse,” last Monday evening and explained to the audience that he intended to put on the plays that “you folks want.” with the accent on the “you.” and to have them played, s0 far as possible, by young actors likely = be well known in the theater of the uture. To this end. Miss Louise Groody. formerly of musical comedy, took the part of the Cinderella-like hercine, played coriginally in New York by Ruth Gordon. while Paul Stone, daughter of Fred Stone, and John Drew Colt. son of Ethel Barrymore. were also in the cast. Miss Groody lacked some of Miss Gor-" don’s skill and persuasiveness, and neither Miss Stone nor young Mr. Colt shed any marked luster on their roles but the entertainment was passable. nevertheless, and seemed to be thor- oughly enjoyed by those seeing it for the first time. Brother Bill Cagney. ILL CAGNEY, handsome younger brother of the famous James, and who was recently signed to & term contract by R-K-O Radio, received two assignments yesterday in two different pictures. The first will be in “Bird of Prey,” the merial drama of the war, starring Richard Dix, and after Bill completes that part he will become & very ro- mantic lover in “Sweet Cheat,” which will feature Ginger Rogers, William Gargan. 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