Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1935, Page 32

B—14 o STOCK GROUP PREPARES FOR A BIG SEASON National Players Open With ‘Three Men on a Horse,’ The New Films. BY E. de S. MELCHER. HE hounds of Spring having stuck their noses halfway around the corner yesterday, Mr. 8. E. Cochran, in a man- ner of speaking, stuck his nose around the corner, too. In back of it appeared the glib and smiling fea- tures of the National Players—sea- soned troupers, who for the past decade have filled Ye National Au- ditorium with the theater’s best. And in back of that there streamed the happy shadow of many a departed thespian—the Minor Watsons, the Edward Arnolds, the Leona Powers, the Donald Woods, the Roger Pryors, the Romaine Callenders and Raymond Dramleys, the Nancy Sheridans and the Ona Munsons and the Adelaide ‘Hibbards—all having romped in vary- ing garb behind these magic poftals and frequently bestowed upon this E street aggregation the title of “Amer- fca’s foremost stock troupe.” AMUSEMENTS. | Chief Players in Films The National Players, as mentioned | before, ill not only burst into life on Easter Monday. April 22, with “Three Men on a Horse” (this has not been mentioned before), and will follow it up with such Broadway suc- cesses as “Accent on Youth” and “Post Road.” but the chances are that cus- tom will be tossed out of the window and that Mr. Cochran will" import certain Broadway stars, with certain new plays which are to be tried out here before they make their mark on Broadway. Thus it is probable that Tullio Carminati will be seen in a new play by Caesar Dunn, entitled “Silhouette,” which comes from the office of Croshy Gaige, and that other stars will appear here in new plays by Robert Milton, Rosemary Casey and B. Iden Payne. etc. The curtain thus seems destined to rise on Easter Monday with more of a bang than usual, and the Na- tional Players should frolic not for days, but for weeks and weeks and weeks as they did last year, with some- thing called “Sailor, Beware.” Although the names of the principals may not at this time be mentioned, Mr. ran seemed most happy at thought of them yesterday—his face, as well as his nose, lighting up with something that amounted to enthusiasm 3s he thought of that salty crew which only last week in New York he signed on the dotted line. PR SPEAKING of ex-National Players, Leona Powers is playing the Paul- ine Frederick role (and hence the Helen Menken role—and hence the role of Elizabeth) in the Theater Guild's production of “Mary of Scot- land,” which is playing this week in Cleveland. Miss Frederick is tem- porarily under the weather. * % ok % ’I‘WO seasons ago it was Hepburn, last season it was Margaret Sul- lavan—now it is Fred Astaire’s fly- ing feet. A preview of “Roberta” yes- terday revealed Mr. Astaire once ‘again as the past master of foot- work—a demon on his pins. Mr. Astaire is so swift that he makes some of the rest .of the film look slow. Ladies, however, quaked at sight of those clothes — “them” gowns — the wardrobe as exhibited by some of Hol- lywood’s niftier nymphs—dresses that no man without a Rockefeller income should even dream of. “Roberta” is one of the films open- ing tomorrow which should be an- ticipated with pleasure (R-K-O Keith's is sponsoring it). Other new films include: “Baboona” at the Columbia, with a personal appearance of those never- stay-at-home Martin Johnsons. The Coch- | Troupers ‘ Glimpses of Stage Folk in Washington. | | | ROBERT WILLIAMS and Red Dust | went into vaudeville because they | were stranded and wanted to get home. | Since that day two months ago, they have been getting further away from their goal every day. The couple started out doing “per- sonal appearances” with the new Ir- vin S. Cobb comedies, in which they played parts in Hollywood. This probably was the first personal ap- pearance tour ever made by a trick dog—as we remember Rin Tin Tin stayed at home in his Malibu Beach cottage and had somebody read Er- nest Thompson Seton to him. Whether | the first or last, it was canceled when | they reached Chicago. i Now Red Dust requires his ham- | burger every day, or he gets very un- pleasant about it. A malamute dog, which is a cross between a chow and a wolf, his disposition is a merger of both. It is said he even refused to laugh at Mr. Cobb’s jokes during the | filming of a picture, which would be very much like refusing to look if Miss Myrna Loy were filming “Lady | Godiva.” Since the hamburger situation be- came immediately acute when the “appearances” ceased, Red Dust and Mr. Williams worked up a vaudeville act and hit the circuit. A-very nice act it 15, too, what with Red Dust mugging beautifully for a comedy introduc- tion and then folding up like a rubber band dur- ing the contor- routine Mr. Williams THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, . Opening Here Wallace Ford, Jean Arthur and Edward G. Robinson (at top) are the popular trio appearing in “The Whole Town's Talking,” which comes to the Earle tomorrcw. Fred MacMurray (below) is Claudette Colbert’s leading man in “The Gilded Lily,” which succeeds “Clive of India” at the Palace. SOPRANO MAKES DEBUT AT WASHINGTON CLUB “Orfental,” by Zimbalist. Marjorie King, With Mischa Mme. Marie Zalipsky provided ex-! | Markoff Also on Program, Heard | cellent accompaniments, although st i times her touch outbalanced the light byjEaxse Rudiercs | quality of Miss King's voice tn volume. | E. S. Roland: “By a Lonely Forest Path- way.” Griffes; “Iris,” Wolpe; “Hei-a, O, Hei-a” and “Don’t Hunt for Luck.” | from “Dancing Princess,” by Kalman. Lila Zalipsky was scheduled in the| | A capacity audience greeted the | debut of Marjorie King, a young so- prano from the sudios of Mme. Marie | Zalipsky, 1ast night at the Washington - | CHILDREN'S PLAY. i who arrived on time was taxed by | open Monday morning, March 11, at} the tardy beginning, the elaborate | 9 o'clock for the sale of tickets for D. C.,. THURSDAY, Tomeorrow Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing. Palace—"Clive of India,” at 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15 and 935 pm. iving on Velvet” at 11 .m., 1:30. 4:20, 7:05 and 9:50 p.m. Stage shows at 12:40, 3:30, 6:15 and 9 pm. Loew’s Fox—"One More Spring.” at 10:45 am, 1:30, 4:20, 7:05 and 9:55 p.m. Stage shows at 12:25, 3:15, 6 and 8:50 p.m. Belasco—"Power,” at 11:44 am., 1:43, 3:42, 5:41, 7:40 and 9:39 pm. Columbia—“Charlie Chan in Paris,” at 11:15 am., 1, 2:50, 4:40, 6:20, 8:10 and 9:55 p.m. R-K-O Keith's—"Scarlet Pimper- nel.” at 11:37 am, 1:37, 3:37, 5:37, 7:37 and 9:37 pm. Metropolitan—“Devil Dogs of the Air,” at 11:15 am, 1:20, 3:20, 5:25, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Tiveli—"Devil Dots of the Air” at 2:20, 4:10, 5:55, 7:40 and 9:30 p.m. ® Ambassador—Biography of Bach- elor Girl,” at 6:15, 8 and 10 p.m. DRAMA GUILD PLAY. On the stage of the Wardman Park Theater tonight the Drama Guild of | Washington will present “The Harbor | Light,” by Owen Davis. A large cast will enact the, ma of several gen- erations of 1 ine ship-building family. The principal parts are played by Ailene Sanford. Denis E. Connell, Harry A. Westcott, Francis Koonce and Frances Brunt. “Harbor Light” is being directed L. W. Currier and there will be a re- peat performance tomorrow night. Tickets may be secured at the T. Arthur 8mith Bureau, 1330 G street | Announcemeny is made that the boxX{ porthwest. tion part of the |Club. Although the patience of flm‘ office of tHe National Theater willd=7 % Coulee Dam Worker Killed. MARCH 7, 1935.- FLORENCE LOCKE AS FAMED ELLEN TERRY Impersonation of Great Actress in Various Shakespearean Roles. Ellen Terry lived again in the per- son of her pupll, Miss Florence Locke, on the stage of the Elizabethan Theater in the Folger Library yester- day ‘afternoon. Like a play within a play was Miss Locke’s impersonation of the famous actress giving her fa- mous lecture on- the women in Shakespeare, and in the course of it acting Ellen Terry’s various roles. All these parts within parts called for a great deal of ingenuity, and Miss Locke possesses it. Through the medium of the throaty, throbbing voice of the' Shakespeareal tradition, Miss Locke made clear Ellen Terry's subtle insight into the famous characters. Only rare slips in em- phasis and occasional blankness ofy facial expression showed that the whole was & studied reconstruction \ AMUSEMENTS. of the late actress and not the deep | personal feeling of the present per- former herself. Memorable were the remarks upon Cleopatra, described by Ellen Terry as an “ebullient, shallow nature,” :’ character which “does not hang to- | gether if she is represented as loving | Anthony with an abiding p-mon:'[ This character did not change at the approach of death. Desdemona was | characterized not as a clinging vine, but as “a saint” In her interpreta- | tion of Lady Macbeth, Ellen Terry | agreed with the opinion of Mrs. Sid- | N dons, found in her posthumous notes, N\ that the Scottish Queen was not “an | exultant sevage,” but “fair, feminine, nay, almost fragile,” with “an acute | nervous sensibility.” N.S. L. | Pension Fraud Charged. COUSHATTA, La., March 7 (P).— A man booked as Frank Merek, 25, who sald he was a Cicero, IIL, civil engineer, was held in jail here while officers investigated reports that he had been collecting fees for “old-age pensions” while posing as a Federal PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ln(.enn Ormandy Conducting Tonight 8:45 B Siiner: 7 AlbenizcArbas. Pervetuo; De F: TN 9 $3.00. 'T. Arthar in Kitts, NA. 3700. Auspices A, F. G. E. Sick Banefit Assoociation ALL 16 /= 50¢ Washington Auditorium Tickets at Droops & Kitts 4 _ BUFFALO - TOMORROW See Feature at 10:45-1:25-4:15-7:05-9:55 Columbia is all agog at having some spent only three real flesh and blood on a stage which once boasted of Ruth Chatterton and Helen Hayes. “The Whole Town's Talking,” with Edward G. Robinson, at the Earle— » | program shared by Mischa Markoff, | tt's “Unds th GRAND COULEE DAM, Wash., | years getting his Louisa May Alcott's nder e ST A collane b | | dog trained to do those little stunts. | baritone, was enthusiastically ap- | Lilacs,” which the Children's Thea- E D v 2 hurled Tom Newton, 45 from a ?13 t;t::r; :l:cnttlt;e“m; “asaff nx:lg:f plauded. | ter of New York will bring to the | boatswain’s chair to his death in the % e & todsy, | Miss King began the concert with National Saturday morning, March 16, | Columbia River yesterday. Newton row and the next day. The trick is | | 10:30 o'clock. IS iireting ores e ox; - Sl FROM COAST TO COAST AUDIENCES AND CRITICS ARE ROARING WITH one of the season’s better bets—and not to be missed. The Boswell sisters are on the stage, which is another reason for going. The above applies to “The Gilded Lily” at the Palace, a picture which puts Fred MacMurray in the place occupied last season by Gable in “It Happened One Night.” Claudette Colbert is, of course, the star. “Vannessa” at Loew’s Fox features ‘Helen Hayes and Robert Montgomery in one of Hugh Walpole's most popu- lar stories. Otto Kruger is the reason for most of the trouble—of which there is plenty. The Casino de Paris revue, said to be a knockout, is fea- tured on the stage. “The Woman in Red” comes to the | Metropolitan with Barbara Stanwyck and Gene Raymond heading the cast. It's taken from the novel “North Bhore.” -~ Other events include “Gems of Burlesque” at the Gayety, the Phila- delphia Orchestra tonight (this should have preceded the “gems”), the Drama. Guild’s production of “Harbor Light” tonight at the Wardman Park The- ater; and Chaliapin, singing away at the National Sunday. * x ok * ELSON EDDY, star of “Naughty Marietta”; Hunt Stromberg, pro- ducer of the film, and others will at- tend the premiere showing of this pic- ture on Friday night at midnight at the Fox. The invitations, handsomely finished off with “formal” written on the bottom of the card, come in the name of “Capt. W. S. Van Dyke.” $80,000 DAMAGE SUIT FILED AGAINST AUTOIST Lloyd E. Layman, Wife and Pas- sengers Sue Leonard Bran- neman for Injuries. Damages aggregating $80,000 were @sked yesterday in suits filed in District | Bupreme Court against Leonard Branneman, whose address was given as the'Navy Department. The actions ere the outgrowth of an automobile collision on Arlington Memorial Bridge February 24. - ‘The suit charges Branneman was the driver of a car in collision with that aperated by Lloyd E. Layman of Clarendon, Va. The Ilatter asks $10,000 damages, alleging personal in- Juries;- his wife, Mrs. Ruby C. Layman, 8 passenger, $50,000, while two other occupants of the car, John Franklin Saunders ‘and his wife, Virgle M. Saunders, ask $10,000 each. The suit was filed through Attorney Marcus Borchardt. DANCING. FPEVTGN PENN STUDIO. 1745 F St N.W. " Private lessons by appoint- Mt 3 Oia) damcing o epeciaity, W. F. MILLER STUDIO 814 17th SL—NA. it it's danced. ":“m Dance Smartly!! Don't Be s Routine Partner smartly . . . T e (oopilar “dBacer) 1D Bexinners. Al "for st lestan—without Obiigation. Studios open until 10 P.M. Leroy H. Thayer Studios 2326 Connecticut Ave. Metropolitan 4121. to persuade the dog to relax. Any dog you can persuade to relax his muscles can sit on his head or get all screwed up into knots like Red Dust. All you have to-do is persuade him. Yeah, that's all. Try it. When Mr. Williams and Red Dust came off after the opening show Fri- day he set the pooch up on a table and said, friendly like, “That was a pretty good show for a first one.” Red Dust looked at him, and when his master walked out the stage door he trotted after. A little later Mr. Williams came downtairs to sit in the wings and watch the other acts. Red Dust stayed upstairs, lest he get in- volved in hostilities with the trom- bonist’s dog, which, we are happy to report, has had all the Milton Berle jokes washed out of him. R. B. P, Jr. ASIATIC EXPEDITION’S FILMS TO BE SHOWN National Geographic Society Lec- ture Also to Include Slides of Paintings. Lantern slides of 25 ‘world-famous paintings by Alexandre Iacovleff, pre- sented by the artist, and a full-length “cinema portrait” of Asia selected from 30 shown for the first time in the United States by Dr. Maynard Owen Williams will be the National Geographic So- ciety’s lecture offering tomorrow eve- ning, in Constitution Hall. - The Citroen-Haardt Trans-Asiatic Expedition made the first motor cross- ing from the Mediterranean to the Yellow Sea through the heart of Asia—172370 miles of hardship, ad- venture, and triumph completed in 314 days. Led by the first motor con- queror of the Sahara and of Africa— the late Georges-Marie Haardt—the Citroen Central Asia Expedition began at both ends of the world’s most color- ful continent and drove two groups across desert and mountain to meet in a rocky gorge near Urumchi in Sinkiang. e Michigan Urges Soldier Bonus. LANSING, Mich,, March 7 (®.— The Michigan Legislature yesterday adopted a resolution urging imme- diate cash payment of soldier bonus certificates. The measure was ap- proved in the House without debate, after having passed the Senate. @ CONRAD VEIDT serious consideration of GAYETY BURLESK NOW PLAYING NORA FORD The Gal From Georgia miles of sound film and | “Don’ |two Italian songs by Pergolesi, “Stizzosa, Mia Stizzosa” and “Se tu | M'Ami,” followed by Brahms' “Das | Madchen Spricht” and “Die Nacht,” by Richard Strauss. She seems to be at her best when singing in Italian. Her clear soprano quality has a pleasing and lightness of tone. She sings without affectation and gives promise of greater accomplishment. The.two Russian songs in the sec- ond group, Tschaikowsky's “None but the Lonely Knows” and Arensky's “To Echoes of Music We Dance,” fully confirmed the favorable im- pression. She was less happy in the German lieder and the aria “Depuis | le Jour,” by Charpentier, the beauty | of which escaped her. Also the ef- | fect of the last note, changed lrom‘[ the original to a higher one was not | pleasing. | Mischa Markoff is not a newcomer | on the concert platform, for he is| known for his songs with guitar ac- companiment and participation in Russian concerts. His powerful voice seems difficult to manage, therefore perhaps the absence of finess and variety of tone color. An experienced singer, Mr. Markoff understands the psychology of his listeners, however, -and his offerings were applauded. He was heard in the aria “Prince Igor,” Borodine: “The Bells,” Taskin: “You Brought Me the Last Flowers,” Jacobson: “Don Juan.” Napravnik: 't Cry, My Child,” from “Demon,” Rubinste! “Invictus,” Huhn; “With- out a Song,” V. Youmans; “Chanson du Toreador,” Bizet, and in two duets with Miss King, “Blossom Time,” Romberg, and “The Dancing Prin- cess,” Kalman. Marjorie King's numbers in Eng- lish included “Dawn in the Forrest,” TOMO i Warner Bros | at In the meantime, tickets are now dam at the huge Grand Coulee Dam selling at the Women's International | project. Five other men have been League office, 532 Seventeenth street, | killed during the building operations. and at the agencies, T. Arthur Smith, | . Mrs. Dorsey’s Concert Bureau and the : Willard Hotel. | “Under the Lilacs” is the next to, the last of the current season of chil-| dren’s plays, which have been brought | to Washington for three seasons -by | the Women’s International League.| The last play is scheduled for April 20 and is “Aladdin and His Wonderful | Lamp.” The league is making reser- vations now for this date. ! THE GREAT CHALIAPIN Greatest of all Bassos MAR. 10—8:45 parioxan Tickets, $1.1 2. R e ickets, $1.10 to $2.75. T. Smith, In Kitt's, 1330 G. T At is an important Announcement of the Opening* TOMORROW of The Queen of All Musical Romances ’IEROME EKERN'S “ROBERTA", starring FRED - ASTAIRE Last|Day. @ LESLIE HOWARD @ “The Scarlet Pimpernel™ GINGER ROGERS IRENE DUNNE n n o w Shown at 11:15-1:00.2:504:356:20 805950 . + « THE NEW LOVE TEAM Barbara S A First National Hit WOMAN«RE A DRAMA OF LOVE with wyek Columbia Pictures Presents LAUGHTER AT THE FUNNIEST PICTURE IN YEARS! A NEW, GREATER HIT FROM COLUMBIA PICTURES, WHO GAVE YOU “BROADWAY BILL", “ONE NIGHT OF LOVE” AND THE YEAR'S BEST—"IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT"! ) THE WHOLE Based on 4 story by W. R. Burnett On Stage With Connie Boswell N§ TALKING EDWARD G ROBINSON Jean Arthur — Wallace Ford — Arthur Byron A JOHN FORD PRODUCTION Screen play by Jo Swerling and Robert Riskin Radio's Premiere Harmony Trio WELL SISTERS “GINE, DE QUINCEY & LEWIS FRANK GABY — ROYAL UYENOS Warner Bros Last Day « KAY FRANCIS in “LIVING ON VELVET” stage DORSEY BROS. ORCH. & BOB CROSBY