Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1935, Page 49

AMU Irish Players Attraction SEMENTS,” Are Big of the Week ‘And This May Be Troupe's Last Appearance in America—Briton's Sons Are Showing Our Actors Some Fine P BY E. de S. not attuned to the poetic fancies of a race whic oints of Profession. MELCHER, our ear is has built Even if its drama out of mere “sticks and stones” (as it was ex- THIS is the week to go to the theater. plained to us you find no musica! and if the heroine is not dresse two years ago by an Abbey player), even if 1 comedy humor percolating here and there, d by M.-G.-M.’s Adrian, even if some of the plays are stark and dreary, there is something about these players from Dublin who come to the that sets your dramatic soul on fire and gives National tomorrow you one of the most | exciting evenings imaginable in the theater. Bernard Shaw, writing not so long ago about these players, said: “No- body who has not lived, as I have to live, in London can possibly under- stand the impression the Irish Play- ers made or appreciate the artistic value of their performance, * * * their spirits and their methods.” It is, we think, this “spirit” that is their all-important asset. They some- how gravitate toward the stars. All is a kind of brilliant day-dreaming | which has little relationship with the common things of the theater. Their thoughts, their speeches, their actions, are all upward. And even when there is tragedy in their doings. when the play is darker than a “Sadie Thomp- son” or grimmer than a “Macbeth,” the darkness that comes is filled with | some kind of a halo and out of the | rain and the fog and the deep, black thunder clouds appears a philosophical | rainbow that comforts rather than crushes. This season's company is not greatly changed from the one that was here two yvears ago. If you saw it then, you will want to see it again. If you didn't see it, you cannot afford to miss it now. There is a strong rumor to the effect that Dublin will not let these players out of sight any more. * X X X <DMUND GWENN, the moon-faced “ merrymaker in “Laburnm Grove,” seen for the past week at the Na- tional, is further proof that Brother England is giving the old Stars and | Stripes occasional lickings. We had| it first when Charles Laughton sat back and, tossing those chicken bones over his shoulders, exhibited a gruff ease as Henry VIII which put to shame any Yankee who had under- taken it. Then along came Elizabeth | Bergner and played Catherine the| Great the way, alas, even a Marlene | Dietrich couldn’t do it. And a young man named Robert Donat, as the| Count of Monte Cristo, has only re-| cently put most of our young Doug- | las Fairbankes to shame and is now firmly entrenched in Hollywood as| one of the wonder workers of the cinema. Mr. Gwenn is particularly to be eongratulated on giving a perform- ance which ranks among the real achievements of the season. The only actors who so far have equaled him are Fred Stone in the first act of | “Jayhawker,” Vigtor Moore in Russell | Crouse’s “Anything Goes,” and, of | Pictures of Screen Attractions and Vaudeville Programs at Downtow course, George M. Cohan in “Ah Wil- derness!” Otherwise he is quite alone in his glory, being the Peter Pan of middle-aged London suburbanites, a figure-head of modesty, a rogue in lamb’s clothing and a cherubic man built in the shape of & rubber ball. If Hollywood doesn’t grab him the place is crazy. He's Britain's Guy Kibbe—only probably much, much better. WALLACE BEERY is still a little lost without Maric Dressler, but he should be extolled for his playing of Barnum in the current “Mighty Barnum.” While he always seems a little like an old-faced young boy in rompers, his emotions being punctured by a kind of youthful lollipopism, he is the big bad boy of the screen who always turns out for the better and who invariably does at least one good deed for every three wrong ones. Beery, however, needs a partner like the great motherly Miss Dressler. Janet Beecher, in “Barnum,” gives a nice performance, but she’s too stiff, too unyielding, too straight of mouth, to set Beery off to best advantage. ok Kk THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JANUARY 6, 1935—PART FOUR. AMUSEMENTS, F—$§ — Dublin Troupe Here for a Week in Distinguished Repertory Concerning Millionaires And All Hitler Policies Barry Fitzgerald (at lett), Denis O'Dea and Aldeen O'Connor (center) and May Craig (at right), are only a few of the brilliant company from He needs somebody with more of a punch. Why, for instance, wouldn't somebody come along and put Edna May Oliver in a role opposite him? The “tent” racket should be grateful to Beery for creating its Mr. Barnum with such visionary gusto. He shakes the very sails out of old Phineas and puts Jenny Lind to flight with enor- mous success. The only fault, we sus- | pect, is that the producers were set on too much hokum—that playing of the Swedish national anthem when- ever Barnum's right hand goes up being a gag as old as Moses. All in all, however, Beery takes Massa Barnum for a very sweet ride— and in the end has built him up as the sort of a legendary person you like to remember. When he leads Jumbo, the elephant, to his first circus tent and the name “Barnum & Bailey” is zoomed across the screen you have a genuine affection for this amazing fellow and recall with pleasure that if it was not for him those sawdust days spent idolizing the fat lady, the thin man, the sword swallower, the trapeze queen and the clown who jumps out of that burning second- story “window” would never have existed. The old guy had charm, whether it was invested in three- headed frogs, “suckers” or what. the Week n Theaters. Myrna From Momana. RANCHES of Montana were the childhood playgrounds of Myrna Loy, who has developed into one of the most popular screen actresses of today, and who is currently co-starred with Warner Baxter in “Broadway BillL” As a matter of fact, to become an actress was the last thought she en- tertained as she galloped over the wide expanse of the cattle country around Helena, Mont,, where she was born. But fate stepped in. Myrna's family moved to Los Angeles, where she was placed in the Westlake School for Girls and there developed a decided talent for sculpture. It so happened that the late Rudolph Valentino also was interested in sculpture and at- tracted by her talents. It happened LBERT A. WICKES will bring to the National Theater for an engagement of one week only, beginning tomorrow night, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday, the Abbey Theater Players, who left such an indelible impres- sion when here two seasons ago, in a repertoire of famous plays that are | known throughout the theatrical and literary world as unforgettable suc- cesses. In its 30-odd years the Abbey The- ater has held the majority output | of the entire school of dramatic lit- This group of players carry erature. a legacy with them such as no Eng- lish-speaking theater possesses. Wil- liam Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn, being the founders, they, and George Moore, St. John Ervine, Sean O'Casey, Lennox Robin- | son, T. C. Murray, J. M. Synge, George | Duoun, known as the Abbey Players, which will begin a week’s e tomorrow at the National with Sean O’ ngagement Casey’s “The Plough and the Stars.” o a stirring and powerful four-act play | by Sean 'O'Casey; Wednesday evening, “Drama at Inish,” Lennox Robinson’s sparkling three-act comedy, Thu day evening, “Juno and the Paycoc! Sean O’Casey’s famous three-act com- edy-drama; Friday evening, “The Coiner,” an uproarous comedy in one act by Bernard Duffy, followed by “The Playboy of the Western World,” | J. M. Syng's delightful three-act comedy; Saturday matinee, “The ‘White-Headed Boy,” a gay comedy in three acts by Lennox Robinson, and Saturday evening “The Plough and the Stars” will be repeated. It was Lady Gregory and the Abbey Players who were instrumental in, bringing our little theater to life; they | might go a step further on this trans- continental tour and bring the theater back to where it was a couple of dec- ades ago, when the spoken drama | also that Mrs. Valentino was produc- ing a motion picture at that time| called “What Price Beauty.” The re- | sult was that a mutual interest in art Shiels and many others of distinction have authored their plays. It was here that George Bernard Shaw's S GAY, exciting and inviting | Columbia. Joe Morrison, tenor of as the holiday season just past |radio and picture fame; Helen Twelve- is the entertainment on stage ilrees‘ Conrad Nagel, Arline Judge and and screen currently offered | Toby Wing play the pivotal roles and at Loew’s Fox Theater. | the supporting cast is unusually large “The Mighty Barnum,” a colorful, |and capable, moving story of the life and loves of | P. T. Barnum is featured on the | screen. Wallace Beery is the amazing | Barnum, “The Prince of Humbugs.” Adolphe Menjou is Barnum's tippling manager and Virginia Bruce plays Jenny Lind, the lovely Swedish Night- | ingale. The Fox stage show features the New York Paradise Cafe Revue, with Jay C. Flippen, Vanessi, May Joyce, Earl, Jack and Betty, 3 N. T. G. | beauties and a parade of others. Guy Lombardo will appear Wednesday and | ‘Thursday. “FORSAKING ALL OTHERS” cur- rently enters its third week as the major screen attraction at Loew’s Palace Theater. Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Robert Montgomery, teamed together for the first time, capture greater popularity than at any time in their respective screen careers, with their ingratiating performances in this Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy. “Toyland Broadcast,” a tuneful car- toon in color that burlesques radio’s great; an exciting Metro oddity, “Motorcycle Cossacks,” an interest- ing subject of Ireland and the latest issue of Metrotone News complete the Palace program. | | ‘OW one fleeting hour changes six | unusual lives is dramatically told | in the exciting and oftentimes humor- ous picture, “One Hour Late,” which | is the major screen item at Loew's ' one of the truly great stars. RKO KEITH'S is continuing “The Little Minister,” starring Kath- arine Hepburn, through the current week, with the picture piling up all sorts of attendance records as well as favorable audience reaction. Adapted from Sir James M. Barrie's “The Little Minister,” the stage ver- sion of which brought everlasting fame to Maude Adams, Miss Hepburn has created her own Babbie and, though this is but her fifth starring picture, she has established herself as “JRROADWAY BILL,” Frank Capra’s | new production, is now at War- | ner Bros.’ Earle, with Warner Baxter {and Myrna Loy in the stellar roles. Based on a story by Mark Rellinger, | adapted to the screen:by Robert Ris- kin, “Broadway Bill” ‘provides splen- |did roles for its two stars, and has {many possibilities for the well-known Capra humanizing touches. The cast includes such ace performers as Wal- ter Connolly, Helen Vinson, Raymond Walburn, Frankie Darro, Clarence Muse, Claude Gillingwater and others. On the stage, Paul Ash remains a second week and presents another new, colorful and tuneful revue, “Va- riety Revels of 1935,” featuring David and Hilda Murray, held for a second week; Jackie Green, the Stanley twins, Barbara Blane, 16 Paul Ash girls, Bert Granoff, Aubrey Sieber and the Earle Orchestra. Still Mammy Singing BY BOB HUSSEY. OLLYWOOD, Calif. — Accus- tomed as he is to studio ac- tivity, your unofficial observer was nevertheless perplexed by the buzz of excitement that gripped the movie lot. It was at the Warner Bros.” com- missary that ke first noticed it. Every one seemed to be eating as though there were a train connection to be met. “What,” asked your correspondent, “is the reason for all this dashing- #bout business?” The guide looked incredulous. “Don’'t you know? Why, Al Jolson 1s going to sing a song on stage three right after lunch, Hurry and I'll take you over there.” No directions were needed for one to arrive at stage three, All roads seemed to lead there. Actors and mctresses from other sets were drifting over. Studio workers, usually rather indifferent about the making of pic- tures, were all heading for stage three. “Is it all right about visitors?” @sked the unofficial observer. “All right? Of course!” answered the guide. “Jolson likes an audience. In fact, he demands it. He says he can't act just for the cameras. He has to watch an audience.” The vast sound stage was crowded. It was a brilliantly-lighted cabaret scene. Beautifully-gowned women and well-groomed men sat at the tables. ‘There was an air of tense importance about the place. This, it appeared, was because this was the first big scene to be filmed in “Go Into Your Dance” and there was something more to it than just that. This was the first<big scene in the first picture in which Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler, h;‘ublnd and wife, aring together. “;‘i:gpgnmnexgfl. each with its crew of operators, were lined about the gance floor. Each camera was placed so that it was not within range of another. At one side nervous musi- cians were tuning their instruments. There was a chatter among the play- ‘ers. “Quiet!” The command came loudly over the public address systems. Instantly there was a death-like hush. The proverbial pin could have been heard in the act of dropping, but no one dared to drop it. “Ready, Al?” asked Director Archie Mayo. “Do we need to rehearse it again?” Jolson arose from his chaiy and walked before the cameras. “No, we don’t need another re- hearsal. Let's go, Archie.” He with- drew the handkerchief that had been used to protect his collar from his make-up and grease paint. “Quiet!” was sounded again over the loud speakers. The lights dimmed, a spotlight was focused on Jolson. The musicians became taut, poised, ready to begin. “Twist ‘em!” yelled Mayo. The scene was started. ‘The music began as Jolson quietly cleared his throat. In silence the audience held its breath through the verse and then, getting into his stride, Jolson began the chorus. All the heart-rending singing for which he is famous went into “Mam- my, I'll 8ing About You.” A girl on the sidelines dabbed at her eyes. An- other, fearful that her sobs would ruin the “take,” tiptoed away. Jolson, on bended knee, was putting his all into the finish of the song. Tears could be seen glistening on his cheeks. ‘There was a terrific outburst of ap- plause when Al finished his song. “He’s dynamite!” exciaimed an old thgnmul,tmuper to another, L) led to the offer of a small part in the picture and Myrna Loy was off on her career as an actress, all without de- sign, malice or forethought. Miss Loy also took up dancing as & pastime and taught a class of children in a dancing school in Culver City. This led to other screen parts. Myrna's first real leading role was not to come until the advent of talking pictures. Oddly enough, it was in “Renegade,” in which she played op- posite Warner Baxter, with whom she is co-starred in “Broadway Bill.” “Renegade” was followed by “Devil to Pay,” “Transatlantic,” in which she created a mild sensation, and “Emma,” which led to a long-term con- tract with M-G-M. Among: her re- cent and most outstanding screen ac- ) complishments have been “The Prize- fighter and the Lady,” “Animal King- dom,” “The Thin Man,” “Manhattan Melodrama” and “Stamboul Quest.” Miss Loy is 5 feet 5 inches tall, auburn haired, with dark eyes, and weighs 125 pounds. She loves danc- ing, collects paintings and sculpture, swims, plays tennis and, of course, rides horseback. She lives in Beverly Hills with her mother and brother, who is a college student. Next Week's Films. INGER ROGERS and Francis Lederer are to be seen together in “Romance in Manhattan” at R-K-O Keith's as that theater’s next attrac- tion. Definite date of the opening is dependent upon the termination of the current stay of Katherine Hep- burn in “The Little Minister.” Bing Crosby's genuine talent for comedy, which has been receiving more and more pronounced atten- tion in each of his recent pictures, finally is accorded its just due in his new Paramount picture, “Here Is My Heart,” which opens at Warner Bros.’ Earle Theater Friday. Supported by an able cast that includes Kitty Carlisle, Alison Skipworth, Roland Young and Reginald Owen, Crosby not only warbles his way to triumph with his unique singing voice in the new picture, but contributes a splen- did comedy performance as well. On the stage the Earle will present as its headliner Sylvia Proos, a favorite of stage, screen and radio. Richards Lecture. MISS JANET RICHARDS will re- sume her Monday lectures on “Af- fairs Political and International” to- morrow morning at 11 o'clock in the Willard room of the Willard Hotel, when she will give a review of the principal political developments of 1934 and highlights of the President’s m - followed by consideration of « » of “Interesting Miscellanies” not yet mentioned in this year's course. These talks are clarified by the use of large maps. JANET RICHARDS AFFAIRS POLITICAL AND INTERNATIONAL Every Monday Morning at 11 O'clock WILLARD HOTEL Admission (Tax Included). 35c and $1.10 CURRENT TOPICS GEORGETTE ROSS HOWARD SULGRAVE CLUB ‘Tuesday Morning, January 8, 11:30 to 12:30 Pierce Hall—Evenin, 8 P.M.—For Reserval Mrs. Boykins, North January 7, 9537 PlayAouss o “Worthy Plags Worthity Presented’ *BELASCO Tomorrow Night and Week The Art Theatre Soclety Offers A Perfect Romantic Comedy “Mrs. Moonlight” AN UNBOUNDED LONDON AND NEW YORK SUCCESS By the Noted English Author, “MRS, MOON- IMPORTANT! 355 %o ommended without all except the hope at it may 8ive to thousands of others some of the charm that it gave to Lon- a Jork endiences. by clergy an: ‘most perfect MAY, S0e. AT. $0476 plays of today. Best Seats 31 &t | first plays were produced, and many | others of distinction wrote their plays | and worked untiringly until The Ab- ibey passed the experimental stage and became one of the world's great- | est present-day theaters. During their one week's engage- ment in Washington, these distin- guished players will be seen in the following repertoire: Monday and Tuesday evenings and Wednesday matinee, “The Plough and the Stars,” Two New Pictures. FIRST NATIONAL PICTURES, Inc., announces that i. has already set February release dates for two of its recently completed feature produc- | tions, “Red Hot Tires” and “North | Shore.” “Red Hot Tires” was based on an | original story and screen play by Tris- |tram Tupper. It is the second in the First National series of action ‘pic |tures, of which “Murder in the | Clouds” is the first. Lyle Talbot is | being starred in all of the First Na- | tional thrillers. His leading lady in | “Red Hot Tires” is Mary Astor, and the supporting cast includes Roscoe Karns, Frankie Darro, Henry Kolker, Gavin Gordon and Bradley Page. “North Shore” is a Barbara Stan- wyck starring picture and features a large cast in support of the star. Among the players are Gene Ray- mond, Genevieve Tobin, John Eld- redge, Phillip Reed, Dorothy Tree, Russell Hicks, Nella Walker, Claude Gillingwater, Doris Lloyd, Hale Ham- ilton, Forrester Harvey, Gordon Eliiott, Eleanor Wesselhoft, Brandon Hurst, Arthur Treacher, Edward Van Sloan, Ann Shoemaker and Fred Vogeding. Robert Florey directed from the adaptation by Mary McCall, jr., and Peter Milne of Wallace Irwin's widely read novel. Played Wit}: Ina Claire. ELEN KINGSLEY, who plays the lead with the Belasco Art Theater Society, has played with Ina Claire in “Reunion in Vienna,” Jane Cowl in her revival of “Camille,” with Vio- let Hemming, in “The Last of Mrs. Cheney,” and with Thomas Mitchell in “Riddle Me This.” This week she plays “Mrs. Moonlight” in the pro- duction by that name at the Belasco. Constitution Hall Thurs. 8:30 P.M. NATIONAL SYMPHONY l"lANS KINDLER, Conductor oven’s Seventh Symphony. Sibelius’ ndia.” Ral M ell's Cone ip D Minor, With" FRANCES NASH. American planist, as soloist. Tickets, 50c to $2.50 Box Office—Garfinckel's. NA. 3730, . Cappel, Manager. in Sir JAMES M. BARRIE'S “The LITTLE MINISTER" Coming GINGER ROTIRS FRANCIS LEDERER YROMANCE in MANHATTAN" BT FOX £ FRIDAY WILL GERS “COUNTY CHAIRMAN" Plus Great Vaudeville Show Joan Iemon Clark GABLE " with CHARLES SUTTERWORTH Hoal / i’ was “the thing"” because of its beauty, vitality and entertaining qualities. It will be many years before these; players will be seen in America again ‘ as the government is loath to let them leave their native land. | In this original cast of the Abbey Theater Players will be found the ver- satile and gracious F. J. McCormick, Eileen Crowe, Barry Fitzgerald, Mau- | reen Delany, Arthur Shields, Craig, Michael J. Dolan, Aideen | O'Connor, Denis O'Dea, Frolie Mul- hern, P. J. Carolan, W. O'Gorman, U. Wright and Joan Sullivan. ‘C]’\ul’c}l MO“SC * Tomorrow. 'HE story of the quiet, unassuming young women who often rule the rulers of many great industries has never been told more effectively on | stage or screen than in the new fllm‘ "version of the famous play by Paul | Frank and Ladislaus Fedor, “The | Church Mouse,” which opens tomor- |row at Warner Bros. Metropolitan. | picture career in this gay comedy. Annual Curley Play. THE Curley Club Players will present their annual Winter comedy Thursday evening, 17, when “The Radio Mystery,” & three-act comedy, will be presented in Carroll Hall. The play will be pre- sented under the direction of Mr. Paul Messink, one of Washington's promi- nent dramatic instructors, and a large cast has been selected to portray the several character roles. Helen Her- beck, who has essayed prominent roles in many local amateur groups, includ- ing “Broadway Jones,” last year, will play the leading role in the forth- coming comedy. Luke F. O'Reilly is chairman of the Committee on Arrangements, S A **Mrs. Moonlight™ Here. OPENING tomorrow night at the Be- lasco Theater the attraction will be “Mrs. Moonlight,” the romantic comedy of Benn W. Levy, which was | produced successfully at the Charles Hopkins Theater in New York. The May | play was first produced in London | where Benn W. Levy, its distinguished author, lives. Among Mr. Levy’s many New York and London successes, in addition to “Mrs. Moonlight,” are “Springtime for Henry,” “Art and Mrs. Bottle,” and “Topaze.” Grandon Rhodes, Helen Kingsley, Robert Pitkin, Edith Ketchum, Doris Underwood, Foster Williams, Vera Tatum, David Appelbe, are among the others in the capable cast who will handle the various roles. D *Peek-a-Boo." EACH show of the Independent Bur- lesque Association gets better than | The beautiful Laura La Plante has each previous endeavor of this organi- | Philip Barry was.enormous, and he | one of the finest roles of her motion | Zation, famed for the production of “Rain From Heaven,” Opening in New York, Could Have Made Good Movie Material, Says Critic—The Whereabouts of Elmer Rice. BY PERCY HAMMOND. HATEVER it is that 8. M. Behrman has to say in “Rain From Heaven” he says it gently, pouring the drama'’s fresh instruction o’er the mind with generous clemency. Unlike Elmer Rice, he mends our morals without kicking our pants; and in his lesson you will discover no ill temper or violence. , tantrum of Mr. Rice’s teachings discourse. I have an idea that persecution of the Jews as Mr. Rice is. The awful frown, the uplifted ferule, and the noisy are absent ffom Mr. Behrman's he is just as upset about Hitler's His distaste for American millionaires is probably as chronic as Elmer’s, and his purpose to ex%ose them every bit as determined. They think alike, if Mr. Bel rman will excuse me for say! ing so; but where the one is loud and irritating, the other is quiet and persuasive. Some of the more constructive re- viewers have hinted that Mr. Behrman in “Rain From Heaven" makes too pretty & picture of the Jewish hero in a crisis of oppression. I shall give you briefly a vague idea of his situa- tion and leave it to you to decide. Hugo Willens (John Halliday) is a German music critic, expelled from Munich on the grounds that he is one-eighth a Jew. He accepts that universes. The rest of the current shining is done by the following women: Miss Ina Claire as a champagne widow in “Ode to Liberty.” Miss Fay Bainter, suggesting, subtly and obviously, a member of the Detroit .smnn set becoming patrician and | wicked while on a vacation in Europe. | Miss Peggy Wood in “Birthday,” | as a beautiful widow, whose second bad break with becoming tranquillity | marriage causes her morbid daughter and finds a haven in the country|to become hysterical. house, near London, of Lady Violet| Miss Irene Purcell and Miss Wyngate. Played by Miss Jane Cowl, | Constance Cummings—Miss Purcell Lady Wyngate is, of course, gracious, | is seductive in “Accent on Youth’ sympathetic and personable. A little | Miss Cummings is one of the drama’s confused by the current chaos in ro- | mance and economics, she has with | her also in a week end party a certain | rich man from the U. 8. A. (Thurston | mystery | yaily and his younger brother (Ben |phandso January | Smith), a polar explorer, whose prin- | cipal passions are Lady Wyngate and the undiscovered fields of snow. ‘The Americans resent the European | intruder’s presence because they think he is interfering in his seductive Continental way with the Yankee ice- man's hot pursuit of Lady Wyngate. One day, at or nearabouts the tea | hour, they forget their good American | manners and insult the unoffending | emigre. They denounce him and ap- ply epithets to him, although he is | much finer a gentleman than either | of them. Accepting their blows with | clicks his heels together and exits politely. It is the opinion, as I have most devastating secretaries Miss Gladys George as an amorous Hollywood artiste let loose in “Per- sonal Appearance” on a rich and me garage man in a Pennsyls vania village, Miss Cornell, who looks and acts like Shakespeare's Juliet so vividly that one forgets her occasional omis- sion of his song. Miss Lucile Watson in the kidnap- ing mystery of “Post Road”; Miss Dorothy Hall as the itress heroine of “Page Miss Glor: Miss Sybil Thorndyke as the heavenly matron of “The Distaff Side,” and all of the artists who do the difficult roles of “The Children's Hour” so honestly and completely, a sweet and understanding smile, he | — intimated, of a number of construc- | tive critics that the play and its lesson | | would have more of a wallop were Mr. | Halliday to say to his adversaries, | glorified burlesque shows. Their latest Presented by First National Pic- | output is entitled “Peek-a-Boo,” which tures, “The Church Mouse” was di- | comes to the Gayety Theater today rected by Monty Banks, who plays an ' and stays for only one week. “Peek- important supporting role in the pro- } a-Boo” features, among others, two duction. Others in the cast include | very clever young ladies well versed in Ian Hunter, English star, who has | the art of giving burlesque patrons just come to America to play a leading | just what they want in the realm of Jane Carr, Edward Chapman and | Clifford Heatherley. | S Singer in Hollywood. GRACE MOORE ARRIVED in Los | | Angeles last week, tired from a| | long concert tour of the United States, but within an hour after she stepped | from the train she was taking a sing- | ing lesson from her teacher, Dr. Mario | Marafiotti. The star will go to Palm | Springs for a much-needed rest, then to San Francisco, where she will sing | at the automobile show before return- ing to start on her next picture, “On Wings of Song,” which Victor Schert- zinger will direct. GAYETY BURLESK Starting This Sunday Matinee JEAN BEDINI’S PEEK-A-BOO CO. Added_Attraction ANN NORTON The Beautiful W Succrssor to It Happened Ome Night™ M [ LOY RA'S COLUMBIA PICTURE “BROADWAY BILL" PAUL ASH & “VARIETY REVELS OF 1935~ Doors Open 1:30 “BROADWAY BILL" CAN ALSO BE SEEN TODAY. TOMORROW. TUESDAY & WEDNESOAY AT THE AMBASSADOR Wainer Bros METROPOLITAN SHE WAS ... 8y DAY A SECRE. TARY=AT NIGHT A BEAUTY IN DISGUISEN LAURA LA PLANTE In the Comedy Romance CHURCH MOUSE AWarses B vt INA Ifl:lfl[fl Qo Sclect Shrts SMOKING PERMITTED Bal. 25¢ Orec. 40c¢ role in “Midsummer Night's Dream,” | entertainment. They are the Misses | June White and Margie White. As an extra added attraction booked in- dependently by Mr. Lake for the edi- fication of his patrons, “the world's prettiest girl,” Ann Norton, will be presented. — Tibbett Back in Pictures. LAWRENCE TIBBETT and Darryl F. Zanuck have signed a contract whereby the opera star will appear in Twentieth Century productions for the next five years, making the screen his permanent medium. Tibbett's first role under the new contract will be in “Sing, Governor, Sing!” the script of which is now being prepared by Nunnally Johnson. The film will be released through United Artists. NATIONAL E THEATER G TONIGHT O 8:30 N Nights. Oreh.. $2.20 Wed. & Sat. Mats., ELBERT A. WICKES ABBEY THEATRE PLAYERS in GAY COMEDIES snd THRILLING DRAMAS Mon, Thu 2% rri. a J. Sat Next Week, A Comedy of Manners by Authors of “The % 7227 Z 7, LIUNGB — ) \ PETRI WAMERICA'S FIRST THEATRE! Sean O’Casey’s Powerful 4-Act Play Wed. Eve. Lennox Robinson's sparkling three-act Sean O'Casey’s Famous 3-Act Play “THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD” Lennox Robinson’s Gay Comedy Bes. Fifth Play of the Americ Crosby Gaige and Charles Heidt Present “ON TO FORTUNE" Worthin Mi Nights 83¢ l?‘:'xflmhun:.' #-:“a ul‘C’u. to $2.20. CaARGERTINA S5 PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA 24 jon Hall. Tickets, $1.00 to $3.25. T. Arthur Smith Fob. 14—8:45, Comstitution Hall Tiekets, all, Sunday Afternoon. Jan. ot Peancnt Mrs, Boree, 1500 G FAMOUS WIENER Mlflfimllli VIE""A cll 2"“’l_l St._(Drooy’ “What do you mean by that?” And, | receiving an unsatisfactory answer, | would punch them both upon the jaw | in a scene that might endear “Rain | however, is the blunt, Rice way, not | latter is the more effective. * % % x | | Elmer Rice? Having been easily | enriched by the Times Square show business, Mr. Rice conscientiously started out this season to redistribute his ill-gotten gains by revolutionizing | the theater and transforming it fram an art gallery into a soapbox. He bought the most famous of the New | York play houses, the Belasco; he | produced two nervous sermons, whose | titles I forget, and he was all alit with | a desire to awaken Broadway to the | values of the non-commercial stage. | His published contempt for other | playwrights from Sidney Howard to dismissed their works as cheap toys | in the drama's kindergarten. He | pooh-poohed them. His remarks on behalf of a theater uninfluenced by | the box office—a theater that, written | and backed by him, would give the | public what it needs, were stimulating, was about to ope the gates of Beulah land to pilgrims having no other place | to go. However, the minute that Mr. Rice’s sermons began to make inroads | on his pocketbook he closed them up. | No cold commercial employer could | have put his employes out of business | more quickly than the great-hearted Mr. Rice did. Now that he has vanished I wish that I could bring him back and show him in “Rain From Heaven” how much more effec- tive it is to whisper than to bray. * K ok % 'HE stage’s distaff side is, as usual, | | predominant in the Broadway dramas. Turning your telescope upon | Broadway’s heavens you will discern |in Shakespeare and Walter Huston in “Dodsworth,” both of them of the first magnitude in their different Famous Dutch Pianist Prices. $1.10, $1.65, $2.20 Box office open 1 . m. MON. NIGHT & WEEK ; Bal, $1.65 and $1.10; 2nd Bal. S53c. Oreb., $1.65; Bal.. $1.10; 2nd Bal, 55e. PRESENTS THE WORLD FAMOUS REPERTORY FOR WEEK ., Tues., Sat. Eves. and Wed. Mat. “THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS” “DRAMA AT INISH” comedy. rs Eve. “JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK” Eve. “THE COINER” n uproarious one-act comedy by Bernard Duffy, and M. Synge’s Famous 3-Act Comedy Mat “THE WHITEHEADED BOY” WARNER BROS. THEATERS Mon., Seats Thars. Theater Society. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Langner Pursuit of Happiness.”” Spain’s Greatest Dancer Only 1934-35 Recital Here Friday Afternoon. Jan. 4:30 . $1.10, $1.65, §: Mrs. Dorsey’ 1300 s ER it T. Arthur Smith Agency NA. 3700. BOY $1.10, $1.63, §2.20. . NA. 7151 From Heaven” to Hollywood. That, | 3 the subtler Behrman method. The | MZUCE | and it seemed to many of us that he | only two men stars, Walter Hampden | BERNHEIMER’S Room sad other ACADEM Of Perfect Sound Photoplay 8th at G S.E. E_Lawrence Phillips' Theatre Bea BUSTER CRA W "~ CLAREN Mon LIER. JEANETTE Mace H VIDOW.""_ E MERR | YWHAT, one wonders, has become of | rs.. 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Today-Tomorre Jeanette MacDonalc __“MERRY WIDOW.” RICHM &y Al HA in Direction of SIDNEY LUST OND ALEXANDRIA Tomorrow-Tuesd ANN_HARDING. “THE FO ARCADE 505RYVILLS GEORGE ARLI “The Last Gentleman.” AMBASSKDO]‘ cor'Ra s WARNER BAXTER MYRNA LOY w. in Waez(u‘s?f “MRS. WIGGS OF THE CA 51 PATCH - Bandreel. . CABPAGE AVALON moiee e Ww, ey St Matinee M. NVRNA L ), A A LOY in __“EVELYN PRENTICE. " Comedy. AVENUE GRAND &2 £y Ave. S.E. YOURG JORN Bo __‘WHITE PARADE! ‘_bn;mlnEs - CENTRAL *® 52 e p W ouble Feature RALPH BELLAMY. “W DARK_F,L WOM FRANK M O __"BY YOUR LEAVE." . COLONY °©*Ap &5 WILLIAM POWELL. MYRNA LOY __“EVELYN PRENTICE." Car HOME 1230 C St. NE. ¢ ELL. SLL. RUBY FATION WALK. " Cartoom ——FLIRT! §_ WAl SAVQY !4bst & Col'Ra. KETTISALLIAN in “MARIE Matinee. 3:00 P.M. LORETTA YOUNG. JOHN “'WHITE PARADE" <-on'?§kfis - Ga.Ave. 8 Q 1 DICK POWELL. RUBY “FLIRTATION WALK. Yoy JESSE THEATER %28 Iryine “MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH,” PAULINE LORD. W. Variets Golor Classies 0o SY‘LVAN Ist &R L “The Gay Divorcee,” GINGER ROGERS. FRED ASTAIRE. Comedy. PALM THEATER °*%F¥- Tomorrow — “CLEOPAT) CLAUDETTE COLBERT and WAR- REN WILLIAM. Novelts ith Yr_Studi and Dancini with " orches. Met. 4180. * MILLER STUDIO 17th St.—NA. 8093. lanced. we tesed it LEROY H. THAYER Fox Trot—Waltz—Tango Classes and Private ns 3_Connecticut Ave Metropolitan 4131 PEYTON PENN N.W. Met. styles, 'DIO 1345 F Si Modern Ball tes LY