Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1935, Page 38

B—18 AMUSEMENTS. Opera Troupe Again Sings That Story of “The Mikado’ Members of English Company at the National Do Without Burlesque—Glancing Over Pictures of the New Week. BY E. de S. MELCHER. POLOGIES are hereby made to both “Trial by Jury” and “Box and Cox” for the unpardonable error of havir.g mixed them up yesterday. A volley of phone calls last night, and a broadside of letters this morning have reminded us again and again and again of the awfulness of our ways, and when at a somewhat late hour last night Mr. Robert Post, one of the local ambassadors for the New York Times, squelched us with a further reminder that it was “Box and Cox” of which we were talking and not “Cox and Box,” our cup of sorrow brimmed over THE EVE G BSTAR, WASHINGTON, THREE-ACT COMEDY BY ALL SOULS’ PLAY UNIT “Take My Advice” Performed Be- fore a Large and Enthusias- tic Audience. “Take My Advice” a three-act comedy by Elliott Lester, was per- formed for a more than moderately enthusiastic audience, in a manner for the most part smooth and entirely acceptable, by the members of the Dramatic Unit of All Souls’ Memorial Episcopal Church last night at the parish hall of the church. “Take My Advice,” which was a starring vehicle for Frank Morgan a few years back on Broadway, provides a lot for an audience to enthuse over, being a happy treatise on some dizzy affairs of sundry members of the ‘Weaver family. There is Bud Weaver, Copyright, A. D. Blanche Sweet on Broadwayy, F irSt_ Time Since ChiuhOOdlAndnl Segovia, Guitar Virtuoso. once and for all. Now, we hope that you hadn’t re- membered, “by the way, that ‘Trial by Jury’ is also called ‘Box and Cox.’” Because it isn’t. Muddled by a brief announcement on the “Trial by Jury” program which states that there will be an “interval of 10 minutes be- tween ‘Cox and Box'"—(you see, Mr. Post, why we pui the “Box” last?) “and ‘The Pirates of Penzance'” we immediately forgot that the former is & neat little three-character play writ- ten by Burnand and Sullivan (not Gil- bert at all) and that it isn't any more “Trial by Jury” than is “The Desert | Song.” i A cheerful missive from Mr. Charles Goulding of the D'Oyle Carte com- pany this morning adds that “it is usually played before ‘Pinafore’ by us, but as the latter opera is not being performed in this city, you will not have an opportunity of seeing ‘Box and Cox’"” As a posteript Mr. | Goulding (who played Marco in “The | Gondoliers,” and Nanki-Poo in yes- | terday's “Mikado”) adds, “May I say how much we are all enjoying our visit to this beautiful city?"—which he may not only say, but which all| loyal townsfolk will be glad to hear | him say. And now since we have been put | 8o politely on -the spot we should | like to put the printer of that pro- | gram on the same spot—not for hav- ing confused us about “Box and Cox” (or “Cox and Box") but because | he has been downright rude to Kn-; tisha by not printing her name at| all. Thus you may not know that yesterday’s excellent “sister-in-law elect” was elegantly sung and played | by the also excellent and elegant Miss | Dorothy Gill. | 31 s “’T"HE MIKADO,” which the D'Oyle | Carte Company retold yesterday | afternoon and evening at the National, | after a somewhat slower start than we had anticipated, picked up momentum somewhere toward the middle and spun out its story with ever-increasing appetite until it came to Ko-Ko's “Titwiilow” and there the climax was reached. Martyn Green also reached his climax, after a series of baffling tricks which had culmigated in an admirable exercise with his left toe. Mr. Green's rendition of the cele- | brated “Titwillow” song was the surest. evidence of this company’s worth, since instead of burlesquing it all over the place, he sang it the way it has seldom been sung before in this coun- try—simply and gracefully and af- fectingly, and without the superim- posed grunts and squeaks so dearly sought after by our own comedians. Others 'who made the afternoon and evening one of indelible pleasure in- cluded Darrell Fancourt as the Mik- ado; Sydney Granville as Pooh-Bah, Dorothy Gill as Katisha and Charles Goulding as the “second trombone player.” Yum-Yum was sung by Eileen Moody. Oddly enough w€ didn’t care for the scenery. Aok b THE opening tonight of “Chapayev” at the Belasco marks the begin- ning of a new era of foreign films in this city—something which people who are anxious to have their cinema education complete have been crying for for some time. Mr. Matty Radin’s venture into this field is not a flight into the night—bolstered by the sight of an empty theater and a suspicion that Washington will like these sort of films. It is based on research and In Person much work and by the fact that his Cameo Theater in New York and his | other theaters around the country are more than holding their own. Mr. Radin at a luncheon yesterday given to local drama reviewers at the Carlton spoke of hoping to get fiims from every country in the world (ex- cept Germany) and in that way keep- ing cinema-minded Washingtonians in touch with what is going on in other Hollywood markets. He will show Pathe news reels at the Belasco, musical “shorts” and possibly brief travel sketches. Pictures will be changed every week and Rene Le Clair will at last get a chance to have his pictures shown here. Mr. Radin, jr., here to assist his father, seemed to be very pleased over everything except that they | won't let him have bigger signs out- side of the theater. * ok ok % THER new films of the week in-| clude: “The Scarlet Pimpernel,” the much discussed British film with Leslie | Howard and Merle Oberon in the lead- | ing roles. It opens tonight at 11:26 at R-K-O Keith's. “Sequoia” at the Fox—in which a | deer and Jean Parker play tag and which is said to be one of the most remarkable films of the year. Frank Parker heads the stage show. “Sweet Music” at the Earle is the new Rudy Vallee musical, which has a lot of good music, Vallee at top form, and a new Ann Dvorak whom you will like very, very much. Helen Morgan sings & verse or two in it—and Car- mela Ponselle, an honest to goodness Metropolitan opera star, sings as & feature of the stage show. “David Copperfield” continues at the Palace—and why shouldn't it? The Columbia will present “Society Doctor” tomorrow, with Chester Morris and Virginia Bruce playing the lead- ing roles. Billie Burke’s in it too. “Red Hot Tires,” with Lyle Talbot and Mary Astor comes to the Metro- | politan; Dorothy Sands will be at the National Sunday night; “Petticoat Fever” has been canceled for the fol- lowing week at the National—and Jimmie Lake says his next week's star at the Gayety, Maxine De Shone, plays rings around even the peerless and flawless Ann Corio. who quits school, intending to marry | a temptress named Marcella Scotte, who is eight years his senior; there is Ann, who is all taken up with the idea of going on the stage, in which she is aided and abetted by one Kerry Van Kind; there is Papa Weaver, who can't resist salesmen of fake stock, and there is Mama Weaver, who believes in numerology. There has to be some fun when all of that gets going, and Mrs. Weaver what to do and what not to do, and then proceeds to straighten told them not to do. enthusiastically as the 17-year-old Bud; Lorraine Germann flitted about delightfully as the number addict, | fake stock salesman with gusto, and rassed father role. Mr. Morgan's role as Bradley Clement, read his lines faithfully, though per- there also is fun when one Bradley | €lement comes along, tells Mr. and | | everything out by doing just what he | Donald P. McCormick played very | | Mrs, Weaver; Wayne Brown did the | G. Laurence Schetky took the har- | John C. Fiske, in | | By the Associated Press. | | NEW YORK, February 21.—Blanche | Sweet removed the matinee make-up | she had worn as Mrs. Chisholm in “The Petrified Forest” and pulled al | dashing green hat over her blond | BLANCHE In her dressing room at the Broadhurst Theater in New York. P. Wirephoto. SWEET, Supreme Moment.” In recent years I rested some—my life needed living. and then I did four-a-day vaudeville.” Asked if she regards her bow to Broadway as the high point in her career Miss Sweet replied: “The high point? Oh, no. I hope haps a bit light on tone and volume, and in general performed better than | hair. adequately. Bette Doyle, Phoebe Jane | “The stage is grand’” she said. Beall and Robert Bole were the|“I haven't been so happy since I first others in the cast. Wayne Brown's Went into pictures as a great, big, | direction let the play lag & bit in a |elegant extra. first act which is long anyway, but| “When was that? then picked up most happily. |Let's skip it. When you mention The designer and scene builders re- | vears. people begin saying, ‘My mother | main unnamed on the program, but |used to go see you,’ and they think that Weaver living room set was a 'you're 70, 80 or 100 years old. very fine piece of work. The Texas| “They forget I was on the stage | Collegians furnished music during | making my living at 9, and was car- intermissions. H. M., |ried on as a baby. what does time i g Be s “And, after all, matter? It slips by so quickly.” FRIDAY PROGRAM. This is the seventh week of what In the program of music by Miss Sweet calls “my bow to the New | American composers at the FridaylYflrkl!‘glllmamSWK?—IPISYCdBYWd- Morning Music Club tomorrow. Helen | Way as & child but I dont count | Corbin Heinl, Washington pianist, | that.” will play for the first time a “Scherzo,” | The most exciting night, she said. by Edgar Priest, organist end choir- ' was the opening, when her grand- master of the Washington Cathedral. | mother came “in all her fine feathers, | Mr. Priest has written a number of | bedecked in all her glory.” | anthems, and music for the organ,| Miss Sweet's grandmother reared | but the “Scherzo” is one of his few her after her mother, a dancer, died | compositions for piano. |at 19. Also Mrs. Heinl will give the initial | “This is something I wanted to do performance here of “Reflections on |all my life,” the actress said. “When the Water,” written by Ada Zeller. | I was with Mary Pickford at the Mrs. Heinl. who was e pupil of Bicgraph Co. we ysed to say, ‘Let’s | Edward MacDowell, will give as her play Broadway.' But I never got | opening number in the American around to it. | music program. three movements of | “I did everything else—danced for | MacDowell's “Sonata Tragica,” the a while, made pictures—you remem- rst of his four sonatas for piano.' ber ‘“The Unpardonable Sin' and ‘The A YT ”".f?”"***:*“-1%zz;f'iru?;%?fi} , g‘g? Oh, about 1913. | I haven't reached that yet.” Jail Cannot Hold Crowd. CAMDEN, N. J. (#) —Overcrowding in Camden has the full approval of | 27 persons. In two days that number of men and women have been set free after arrests on minor charges | because there was no room for them | in the jail. " Lecture by | HILAIRE BELLOC The Present International Position in Europe Ballroom Willard Hotel | Monday, March 4th at 8:30 P.M. | Tickets $1.00 Reserved $1.50 ON SALE WILLARD HOTEL AND 1315 Sth ST. N.W. "GAYETY BURLESK| Now Playing BASHFUL FLAPPERS You will agree with me. that this is the best attraction of the season. JIMMY LAKE. | C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1935. NISH ARTIST TO ispA GIVE RECITAL HERE Scheduled for Program Next Wednesday. Andres Segovia, Spanish guitar virtuoso, whose sold-out recital at Town Hall, New York, Saturday even- ing brought demands for another re- cital this Saturday, will give his first ‘Washington concert Wednesday eve- ning, February 27, in the Willard Hotel ball room. The recital is sponsored by the Societe des Concerts Intimes, Elena de Sayn, director. Mr. Segovia made his debut in this country in 1928 after six years of highly successful concert giving in Europe and South America. Like other geniuses, Andres Segovia was considered & bit queer in his youth- ful days, when as a student he at- {tended the Musical Institute in Granada. “Un vago,” his fellow students called him, and all because | the youth preferred to spend his leis- ure moments transcribing classical music for the guitar. Could any one imagine a Beethoven sonata played on the guitar? ‘The day arrived when he felt he had attained the goal. Piled in neatly arranged order were transcriptions of & number of well-known classical| | works—a Bach suite, a Handel sara- bande, works by Mendelssohn and even Grieg were there. Segovia then went about the preparations for a concm,, brushing aside as inconsequential the | discouraging comments of friends and family. ‘The resultant suecess was a surprise | AMUSEMENTS even to his own sanguine expectations. This, the guitar of lighter moods, of the serenade and fandango, was trans- formed before their eyes to this me- dium of beauty and power. Segovia's fame now traveled beyond | York. the confines of Granada. Cordoba, then Madrid, heard and extolled his genius. A South American tour was arranged, and upon his return to Europe & triumphant series of con- certs through Italy, France, England, Germany, the Scandinavian countries and Russia. Segovia gave his first recital in New of All Soviet Dialogue Titles in English Greatest Films. GRAND OPENING TONIGHT 8:30 P. M. Reserved Seats on Sale Now, 53¢ and 650 BELASCO au TOMORROW Feature at 10:00-12:20-2:45-5:10-7:35-10:00 Doors Open at 9:30 A.M. Heigh Ho,Evensybody HEAR ME SING “FARE THEE WELL ANNABELLE,” “EVERY DAY,” “SWEET MUSIC” &OTHER TUN iy COMING SOON: IXOTE DUKE" York in the Town Hall, January 9, 1928. In five weeks he had piled up the astonishing record of six sold-out New York recitals, two Boston recitals and 25 appearances outside of New T Ships plying between America and South Africa have been requested by the British admiralty to chart Inac- cessible Island and Nightingale Island |In the vicinity of lonely Tristan da | Curtha. 1 Asked to Chart Islands. CHALIAPIN In “DON GEORGE ARLISS in “THE IRON : JERITZA IN “VIENNESE LOVE SONG™ 9 STARS 6 SONGS 2 BANDS ANN DVORAK sensation of 1935 as a song- and-dance girl! Ned Sparks - Helen Morgan Robt. Armstrong Allen Jenkins Alice White . Joe Cawthorn RUDY'S CONNECTICUT YANKEES FRANK & MILT BRITTON BAND AND 100 DANCING CUTIES PONSELLE Mezzo-Soprano of the Metropolitan Odera Co. B JOE& JANE McKENNA—THE VALORS PEGGY TAYLOR and Her Dancing Kitchen Pirates LESLIE HOWARD MERLE inOBERON e Scarlet % /_D/'m,oerne/ From the novel by Baroness Orczy An Alexander Korda Production United Artists Release The romantic adventures of a mysterious night- rider. . . whose hoof:beats brought hope to a nation...and ecstacy to the heart of one woman. LOUISE BEAVERS, One of the stars of “Imitation of Life,” which comes to the Lincoln tomorrow as the feature of its stage show. ) 85¢-82.7! Opera Company of London In authentic Gilbert & Sulllvan operas: TONIGHT “The Yeoman of the Guard” Friday (Special Holiday), Matinee and Evening, “IOLANTHE"; Satur- day, Matinee and Evening, “THE GONDOLIERS.” On Screen ="Carnival” D 7% Z Leaims JACK BENNY-IN PERSON One of the Greatest One-Woman Shows DOROTHY SANDS Sun. Only, Feb. 24, 8:30 P.M. Tickets $1.10, $1.65, $2.20. A throbbing drama of the French Revolution «..of one man who faced death a thousand times yet lived to smash a reign of terror. 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