Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1935, Page 32

B—16 #= AMUSEMENTS. New German Star Steps Ahead of Msc‘y Christians Far Film Vehicle Outshines Her First American Picture—Katharine Cornell Coming to Washington. BY E. de S. MELCHER, Loew’s Columbia. Purposely we haven't said that the film “Wicked Woman,” one of those I've-shot-my-husband- TAKE an hour or so off and go to see Mady Christians at now-let’s-bring-up-the-children-without-letting-them-know -and-when-:;hat’s-over-go-back-to-jail “jobs.” But Mady Christians does. the film that matters. Because it isn't She is one of the few “finds” of the season who is both brilliant and distin- guished and who, as the mother of that brood, makes you feel that any and every brood would be glad to have her for a mother. No performance of the year has been punctured with such dignity. Miss Christians’ every word comes straight from the shoulder, straight from the heart and goes straight into the audience’s heart. Women present at yesterday'’s first performance (and it was heartening to see that there were so many of them) bawled copi- ously into their handkerchiefs. A trib- ute to a really splendid actress, we hope a few of those tears have been sent to Hollywood! The supporting cast is excellent and gives that horrid little boy, Jackie Searle, an opportunity to prove that he can be nice, too. He's an amazingly able actor for a youngster. And M-G-M was wise in spotting Charles Bickford opposite Mady (don’t forget that it’s “May-Dee"). If there’s a German society in town we hope that all of its members will goose-step immediately to the Colum- bia and see one of its most capable Troupers EN years ago roller skating teams on the vaudeville stage Glimpses of Stage Folk were a mixture of dance team, ice skating technique and in Washington. lithe grace. When one of the famous combinations of the day as- sayed any adagio whatsoever in its routine, the acrobatics were modeled after the easy swings and lifts which distinguished, for example, the danc- ing of Irene and Vernon Castle. Perhaps the first team to concen- trate solely on a new type of skating performance was that of Earl Wood- ward and Jack Brown, two gentle- men who, with a diminuitive girl partner named Betty Gilmore, were whirring things up-down at Loew’s Fox earlier this week. Both Wood- ward (he was the tall blond husky) and Brown (noted for his cigarette spin) drifted into show business in pursuit of a hobby. Woodward was a clerk in a Rochester, N. Y., taxi company. Brown held an equally unexciting job in Syracuse. In the courst of his occasional travels with a skating hockey team Earl had met Jack Brown over in Syracuse. They played opposite each other, became friends and knocked around town after the matches. When his job seemed to be on the skids he mentioned the fact to his new- found friend the next time they met across the puck. “T'd rather go on skating,” he ex- plained. “But how to live?” Jack said he thought they could work up an act and play local lodge meetings, minstrels and what not. They decided to try. That was 11 years past. Within a year they were off on a minor circuit booking. From that time on they never parted. But to revert to the novelty of their technique. As they were both rather sturdy-looking boys, they did not believe themselves suited to the airy style of stage skating. There- fore they stressed the acrobatic angle, evolving stunts wherein Jack hung by his heels from Earl's neck while the latter spun like a top, wherein Earl held Jack by one hand and spun him far and wide in a series of swooping arches. Their most famous trick was evolved accidentally. They were working on a routine in which Jack was to lock his feet around Earl's neck, they would go into their spin and Earl would grad- ually bend his knees until he had dropped to a squatting position. Jack, straight out as a rod and making about 70 r. p. m., would be only a few inches from the floor. One day in the middle of this little wow, Earl started laughing. He laughed and laughted, and couldn’t summon the energy to stand up again. Jack sank lower and lower. His nose scraped the stage. He poured forth a series of commentary au- dible only to Earl, but decidedly electrifying. Earl straightened up. The audience was howling its ap- proval as Jack turned to bow, K w;‘ er'xislmlal ‘whitened rom the power e on the skating board. From that day forward they kept the idea in their act. Jack’s nose—in case you were too far back to tell—Teally does touch the floor, too. He has gathered innu- merable splinter; thinks nothing of it. After all, it is an inimitable trick. And what is a splinter? Jack can re- member the day he was being swung high, wide and handsome during a performance in Lowell, Mass., and his head banged straight into the corner o’ct‘ piano placed on stage for the next That was one of the worst acci- dents the two boys ever suffered. Once in Portland, however, both of them and Miss Gilmore (she has been with them four years) were badly erocked. They were doing a finale with the girl holding onto Earl's hands, swinging out in back of him and Jack swinging in front, when the curtain closed in. Her foot caught in the drop, and all three plunged pell- mell into the orchestra pit. R. aranieed OIL BURNERS Guaranteed by " the Marketers of SBETHOLINE RICHFIELD | SHERWOOD BROS.,INC. countrywomen shine like a beacon in her first American picture, * % Xk X we HAD the pleasure of meeting Miss Christians in Hollywood this Summer. A tall, strong, blond energetic creature, she struck us im- mediately as not only being a nice person, but as also having a phenom- enal sense of humor. Why is it that niost tragediennes off stage are a darn sight funnier than comediennes? The answer probably is that they don't try so hard. “OF' COURSE we are coming to Washington!” Thus writes Ray Henderson from Katharine Cornell’s offices in New York in reply to a query made by this department a few days ago. He adds: “But when, we do not know. We have had to add a week to ‘Romeo and Juliet’. In this case it is by public demand.” Thus we have to apologize to many, many good people who have recently asked about Miss Cornell’s possible pilgrimage to Washington and to whom we have invariably replied, “No, she is positively not coming.” The fact that she is, is just about the best news of the season. * ok ok X THE man who photograped Greta Garbo in her first Swedish pic- ture, “Goste Berling,” (Selma Lagerl of famous story) is in town— nay, has been in town lo these many moons. His name is Sifrid A. Lar- sen—he is having an exhibition of his photographs this very minute (and all this month) in the Arts and Industries Buildings of the National | Museum—and at odd hours you'll find him at the Wardman Park Hotel as captain of the staff in the down- stairs dining room. Mr. Larsen back in 1922 was chief camera man with that Stockholm film company which discovered Miss Garbo. He said: “She was seen one night at a restaurant in Stockholm sitting with three other pupils of the dramatic academy where she was studying. At that time she was 17 or 18—very, very beautiful, and much more beautiful than she is now. “I don't know what they have done to her in Hollywood, but she is changed—oh, yes — changed very much. But she was very difficult to work with. Although it was her first picture and I had the pleasure of taking even those test shots which were shot at the academy to see whether or not she would do for the part, she was easily overcome by emo- tion—would burst into tears at the slightest pretext and we would often have to stop work as early as 11 o'clock in the morning. She was al- ways asking about America.” Mr. Larsen then explained that it was due to Mr. Mayer and Douglas Fairbanks, - who were visiting in Sweden, that Garbo was brought to America. They saw “Goste Berling,” which was shown only to Swedish so- cieties in this country, and they saw Miss Garbo. One look at her was enough. Over she came. Rumor has it that she’s been here ever since. But Mr. Larsen’s woe over her looks is very, very apparent. She used to be so—-” and he sighed as he indicated with a certain curved sweep of his hand that was—er— stouter. * ok k¥ * X Xk *x BEBE DANIELS and Ben Lyons, ac- cording to a Hollywood scribe of the morning gazettes, are headed for New York to do that Broadway play which they have been hankering to do. But what does this lithsome West Coast scribbler mean when she says in her opening paragraph that Philip Moeller, who is to direct Hepburn in her next picture, “has had no expe- rience in the movies”? Can she have been doing a shut-eye when Mr. Moeller was directing Irene Dunn and John Boles in “The Age of Inno- cence”? Or didn’t that count as “ex- perience”? Here Today GUY LOMBARDO, ‘Who brings his orchestra and revue to Loew’s Fox Theater to- day and tomorrow, giving two performances early and later on this evening. ay Ladies Nite Ne Cover Charge for Ladies TWO BI Ralph Garren’s 8-Pc. Orchestra Beers—Wines—Champagnes ut No Hard Liquor Sold Bring Your Own SCOOP!! THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1935, Romancing in Manhattan “DODSWORTH” WITH ORIGINAL COMPANY New York Cast Coming to Wash- ington for the Week Begin- ning February 4. “Dodsworth,” one of the smash hits of the theatrical year, is headed for Washington, with Walter Huston starred in the role which he created and Fay Bainter playing her original part also. Sidney Howard’s famous dramatization of Sinclair Lewis’ equally famous novel will be pre- sented by Max Gordon at the National Theater for one week beginning Mon- day, February 4. “Dodsworth comes almost direct from its 42 weeks' triumphant suc- York, as Philadelphia and Baltimore | are to be the only stops on the way. The metropolitan cast will be seen here intact in all essentials, only a couple of changes of minor characters having been made. Among the prin- cipals who helped win for the play its crown of laurel in New York and who will be seen here are Nan Sun- |derland, Frederick Worlock, Kent ‘Smnh, Ethel Jackson, Harlan Briggs, Lenore Harris, Helen Zelenskaya, Al- fred Kappeler, John Williams, Nick | Adams, Willlam E. Morris and Charles Henderson. e BAND CONCERT. By the United States Marine Band Symphony Orchestra this evening at 8 o'clock in the Marine Barracks band auditorium; Capt. Taylor Bran- son, leader; Arthur S. Witcomb, sec- ond leader. Overture, “The Secret of Susanna,” ‘Wolf-Ferrari “Entrance of the Gods Into Val- halla,” from “Das Rheingold,” ‘Wagner Concerto for string bass, with or- chestra accompaniment, Opus 9, Stein Franz X. Schumm. Marines’ hymn, “The Halls of Montezuma.” Overture, “The Barber of Seville,” « Rossini Fantasie, “The Golden Cockerel,” Rimsky-Korsakow “Hungarian Rhapsody,” No. 3, Lis: Lamento, Tone poem, “Les Barbares,” Saint-Saens IN ONE-ACT PLAY. A class in voice and diction spon- sored by the Players’ Club and taught by Lucy Ann Rogers was resumed at the club’s first meeting after the Christmas holidays, held in the audi- torium of Central High School Wed- nesday, January 2, at 7:30 pm. The class will continue tonight at the same time and place. A rehearsal of “Six Spots,” an original one-act play by George Wilcox, was held after the class. “Six Spots” is being directed by the author with a’cast that in- cludes Willlam P. 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Paradise revue at 12:15 and 3:10 ., Guy Lombardo and his revue at 6:05 and 8:40 p.m. Metropolitan—“The Church Mouse,” at 11 am, 1:10, 3:15, 5:30, 7:35 and 9:40 pm. Columbia—“A Wicked Woman,” at 12:10, 2:05, 4:05, 6, 7:55 and 9:50 p.m. R-K-O Keith’s—"“The Little Minis- ter,” at 11 a.m,, 1:11, 3:22, 5:33, 7:44 and 9:52 p.m. Palace—“Forsaking All Others,” at 11:35 a.m.,, 1:35, 3:35, 5:40, 7:40 and 9:40 pm. Tivoli—“The White Parade,” at 2, 3:50, 5:45, 7:35 and 9:30 p.m. Ambassador—"Broadway Bill,” 5:45, 7:45 and 9:45 p.m. at ON DANCE PROGRAM. Michael Logan of New York, a mem- ber of the Charles Weidman dance group, formerly of the Lester Shafer- Marian Chace group of Washington, will come from New York to appear as guest artist with the Marian Chace Dancers at Roosevelt Auditorium Tuesday, January 15, at 8:30 o'clock, sponsored by the Community Center Department. 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Columbia 10154 “ON TO FORTUNE” AT NATIONAL NEXT WEEK New Play by Authors of “Pursuit of Happiness” Has a Splen- did Cast. Next Monday evening Crosby Gaige and Charles Heidt will present at the National Theater a new comedy, based on honesty in public and private life in America, entitled “On to Fortune,” | written by Lawrence Langner and Armina Marshall. The authors, identified as Mr. and . Lawrence Langner of Theater and penners of the undling” comedy of last Pursuit of Happiness,” have laid their action of “On to Fortune” in the home of a prominent Middle Western banker, but satire or any reference to modern banking is not the theme or intent. The Messrs. Gaige and Heidt have assembled a cast of prominence and distinction for their new production, with such stellar names as Roy At- well, the comedian; Ilka Chase, Glenn Anders and Mary Rogers, daughter of the famous Will, heading the list. Myron McCormick, Josephine Hull, Edward McNamara, Hugh Rennie and Edward Broadley also boast of en- vious records in the theater and have appeared in many previous successes. Worthington Miner, well-known to Washington audiences as the director of “Reunion in Vienna” and “Both Your Houses” for the Theater Guild, “I Loved You Wednesday” and “Five Star Final,” will also play a promi- nent role in “On to Fortune,” as well as direct the production. His most recent Broadway asignment was con- cerned with staging “Revenge With Music.” The engagement of “On to Fortune” at the National Theater is prior to the Broadway engagement, which be- gins January 21. LAST TWO DAYS ‘FRIDAY C RADIO FAVOllTE s ~AMUSEMENTS. Cleanliness Is Urged. I Following disclosures that in many schools only four wash basins and two roller towels a week are provided for several hundred children, London has a movement for better facilities for cleanliness among pupils. AMUSEMENTS. 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