Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1935, Page 44

WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, MARCH' 15, 1935. AMUSEMENTS. Hollywood Trades People Scan Box Office Receipts Interest in Financial Success of Players Is Aroused by Solicitude for Their Accounts. AMUSEMENTS. : THE EVENING STAR, ‘Not a Forgotten Man, Is :This William Shakespeare ‘ He Takes "Tops" Position in “Favorite-Plays-of- Your-Lifetime" Symposium—'"'Petersburg Nights " Booms the New Russiftn Ideas. ATIONAL Nights. 35-82.75. Wats., Wed. snd Sat., 35e-52.20 Seats Now LE GALLIENNE An Old Favorite Comes Back to Town Cont. from 11 A. M. 25¢ to 1 P. M. Moscow Art Theater Players in Dostoyevski's “PETERSBURG NIGHTS” Complete Dialogue Titles in English . BY MOLLIE MERRICK. OLLYWOOD, March 15 (N.A.N.A.)—I have oft the rabid interest tradespeople in Hollyweo%d etr;kweoln: :gao.x'; pictu;:citespe‘;lgnuuy‘ me bomce receipts. ks gol a ial success?” they’l - variably, or “Did the critics like S8o0-and-So’s rlumk:l:ymlzle?a'fk 2 No mere curiosity this, it seems. Grocers, butchers, apartment BY E. de S. MELCHER. . CCORDING to a 10-favorite-plays-of-your-lifetime sympo- sium held by Ward Morehouse recently in New York, the A favorite play of our time, and’perhaps of any other time : is “Hamlet.” Mr. Shakespeare is thus still one up on the u * boys—and he seems to be going strong. For no play th}’s season on Broadway has reaped more coin or more honor than “Romeo " and Juliet,” although the fact that Miss Cornell played Juliet had, of course, something to do with it. “Hamlet” got first vote and “Abie’s Irish Rose” got no vote at all, which may surprise those who made some $5,000,000 out of Abie's little girl. “Hamlet” came “Rain"— winners were “What ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,” “The Jest.” e Green * Pastures,” “Journey’s End,” “Reunion in Vienna” and “The Cherry Or- © chard.” “The Barretts of Wimpole Street” and “Grand Hotel” didn't quite make the grade, although at one stage of % the voting they were well towards the top. “The Old Homstead” died. * % X% ¥ % "THE new Russian film at the Belas- co, “Petersburg Nights,” is based on two novels by Dostoyevski, “White Nights” and “Netotcha Nezxanova,” + both of which. were published in i 1848, It is a long film, very long, with some admirable photography, & ! theme that is ancient, but still pop- . ular and a text which tells you that in the “old days of Russia” real * genius and real art was neglected and that only the weak and the pampered prospered—something which may or may not be taken as propaganda, de- pending on which way you look at it. While the film is spoken entirely in Russian, its speeches are made quite . clear by the English captions and < you will find little difficulty in trac- ing the history of one Egor, whose * talent for violin playing swept him on to Petersburg and then out again. B. Dobronravov, who plays Egor, is an interesting actor whose only short- comings are the shortcomings of the % film. Thus, when he falls in love with K. Tarasova (the first names aren’t ¢ divulged) and kisses her hand with all the fervor of a Continental cavalier, while her fiance stands within a few | yards of them shaking his fists and saying “Fie!” in good old Soviet language, you are worried not so much | about the chief actor. but by the director who made such a clumsy scene necessary. It suggests, some- how, the rather futile days of Ruth Roland, etc. The message that “Petersburg Nights” drives home is, however, a strong message, and the final exodus into that Siberian night with Egor's song on the lips of the multitude is something to remember. Before that you have seen the violinist, Mr. Schultz, very successful because he has plagiarized the works of others and because he has bowed and scraped his way to immortality. And you have of those thousands who are trying to get in touch with her. Steve Cochran was due backfrom New York Tuesday, Wednesday and ‘Thursday. Members of the Washingtcn State Society will preview “Ruggles of Red Cap” at the Earle Theater next Mon- day evening at 11:30 o'clock as the guests of John J. Payette. The 1,935th woman who goes to see “Gold Diggers” today will receive a free ticket and a bunch of flowers from a local florist. Prepare for an extraordinary dance team that is coming all the way from Cuba to dance at a local night club. Bince Mr. Spectator slipped up on this yesterday he has given us per- mission to state that he has heard that Chela and Doray are even better than Eva and Raoul Reyes, who are now dancing at the Casino in New York. Chela looks like Lupe Velez and dances like her, too—and Rene Doray taught Valentino those tango steps for “The Four Horsemen.” They will dance at the Club Habana. The Roadside Theater group will start off its 1935 season next Tues- day night with a 15-minute broad- cast of “Ruggles of Red Gap.” Eu- gene Kressin will play the Charles | Laughton role. Janet Coon will be | Mary Boland; Frances Brunt, Zasu Pitts, and Helena Cook will speak for Maude Eburn. Anton Hardt is di- recting. Hervey (“Anthony Adverse”) Allen has written a letter to Miss Young, local booster for that excellent Chil- dren’s Theater of New York, praising it to the skies. Tomorrow these players will present Louisa Alcott’s “Under the Lilacs” at the National. Marc Silver says that “Folies Ber- gere” is his favorite film. The only Washingtonian who gets his picture in the Film Daily Year Book of 1935 is Julian Brylawsky. The curtain will rise at 8 p.m. to- morrow night on the Columbia Play- ers' production of “Uncle Vanya” at the Soviet Embassy. Loew’s Fox Star seen Egor starve because he chose to | write about the ‘‘people.” Artistically and from an actor's point of view, there is much to be derived from this film. It's message will, however, appeal mostly to the | | folks back home. * ok k * A FORMER Washington girl, Elea- nore Troy (her real name is Ed- monston and she used to live with ‘¢ her family at 651 B street northeast) appears prominently among the Busby Berkeley girls in “Gold Diggers of * 1935." Miss Mary Ward, advance guard of the Le Gallienne troupe, is staying at the Washington--this for the benefit here and When Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing. Earle—"“Gold Diggers of 1935” at 10:30 a.m., 1:20, 4:15, 7:05 and 10 p.m. Stage shows at 12:20, 3:10, 6:05 and 9 - Loew’s Fox—"The Little Colonel,” at ¢ 10:45 am, 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 and 9:50 p.m. Stage shows at 12:30, 3:20, 6:05 and 8:55 p.m * Belasco — “Petersburg Nights,” at 11:56 a.m., 1:55, 3:54, 5:53, 7:52 and 9:15 pm. Palace—"The Wedding Night,” at 11:30 am,, 1:35, 3:35, 5:35, 7:35 and 9:35 pm. Metropolitan—“While the Patient Slept,” at 11:15 a.m., 1, 2:45, 4:30, 6:15, | 8 and 9:45 pm. Columbia—"Private Life of Do Juan,” at 11:40 am,, 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45 and 9:45 p.m. | EVERETT MARSHALL, Former Metropolitan Opera star, who heads the stage show this week at Loew's Fox. NEW PLAY COMING. Washington’s Spring theatrical sea- | son will open April 1, when Brock Pemberton will offer his newest pro- duction, “Ceiling Zero,” at the Na- | tional Theater. Rehearsals are no Pemberton and Antoinette Perry. Mr. Pemberton and Miss Perry wi the successful “Strictly Dishonorable, | and their “Personal Appearance” is | & hit on Broadway. “Ceiling Zero” is the first legiti- | mate stage play written by Frank | Wead, who, despite his success as a writer of both fiction and stories for | is best known in|* motion pictures, | being personally conducted by Mr.|. The last Washington offering of | DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, house landlords, all watch production scheduies constantly. Among | their customers and tenants are thousands of smaller actors and extra talent, and studio technicians of all types, who only work on & part-time schedule when activity is heavy. r accounts are watched on the basis of a personal success or on the basis of s producer's success, which pretty well insures another role for the people who have participated in it. The furrier knows that a beauty is good for the mink coat she orders with an sutocratic tone, if her last preview has recelved the accolade of the critics. When a production like De Mille's “Crusades” is announced, credit al- lowances, as far as three months in advance, are given at various markets to hundreds who will start to work in the picture. In this event the eco- nomic status of the extra is bettered tremendously. Ten thousand people will receive pay checks during the making of this epic. The three months of production insure weekly pay checks with a good living wage. 8o that 1s why your grocer, of & morn- ing, is poring over the trade jour- As he appears in “The Private Life of Don Juan,” in which he is assisted by such well-known English beauties a8 | nals. Nearby is his memo of ac- Merle Oberon, Benita Hume and Binnie Barnes. 'G.W.U. GROUP IN BROADWAY COMEDY HIT “Good-by Again’ Is Well Staged by Cue and Curtain Club. “Good-by Again” said hello again very gayly to Washington last night § | the Wardman Park Theater, being put through its slightly batty paces by the members of the Cue and Curtain Club | of George Washington University, who, in turn, were led along their va- rious ways by Harold Weinberger's very fine direction. “Good-by Again,” which, as you know, was one of last season’s popular hits on Broadway and which had itseif done by the National Players last year, is a more or less insane piece about a happy and slightly demented writer, his patient secretary, a married woman, her husband and sundry other relatives and incidental persons, all winding up in some very clever and staccato lunacies. The players of the Cue and Curtain : Club present these lunacies in a very acceptable fashion. They have a passable first act, a much more than passable second act and a high-speed, whoop-it-up, two-laugh-a-minute third act. All of them have a lot of fun with the brittle dialogue and in projecting it display a combination of their own abilities with Mr. Weinberger’s knack for getting much out of a modern three-act comedy. Joseph has been excel- lently cast as the befuddled young man about whom the piece centers, and he returns the compliment by delivering of himself a superb per- formance. He has a gay good time popping out his lines with wonderful spontaneity and in general being very crazy. His chief partner in farce is, of course, the secretary, played by Adele Gusack. Miss Gusack starts out cold but warms up with the play and would be a star of the drams if she did nothing else but provide that GAYETY BURLESK N PLA 2—Ge of —2 MIKE S'ACHS PEGGY HILL Commz—lolo SNYDER And All New Sh luaranteeq olL BURNERS | smash finish she does for the second act. Amanda Chittum, Irving Grodstein and Deane Bryant are three others who exhibit a more than average de- gree of adeptness with farcical lines. Mary Elizabeth Keane, a young lady of somewhere between 8 and 12, per- forms very well as Theodora, a role which was Theodore, or something male, in the author’s version, but which was changed because some one saw Mary Elizabeth. Some half-dozen others very capably uphold their less important parts in the play. “Good-by Again” was performed before a single setting designed by Katherine Cutler and executed by Karl E. Gay. The play will be re- peated tonight at the Wardman Park Theater. H M ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM. A program in honor of the 250th anniversary of Johann Sebastian kach and George Frederick Haendel was| given this morning at the weekly con- cert of the Friday Morning Music Club in Barker Hall. Maud G. Sewall read | s paper on “Bach and Handel, in| I’Thelr Days and Ours,” and Margaret | Tolson, pianist, played Bach's “Patricia n C Minor.” Flora McGill Keefer | sang “Piangero” and “Furibondo” | from Handel's “Giulio Cesare. In | her final group she gave Bach's “Bist | du bei mir” and the “Qui sedes” from the “B Minor Mass.” Dorothy Radde Emery was the accompanist for Mrs. Keefer. LIBERAL EXPRESSIONS IN COLLEGE FAVORED Gov. Earle Talks to Pittsburgh U. Trustees Who Were Charged With Reactionary Policies. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, March 15.—Gov. George H. Earle said last might he told trustees of the University of Pittsburgh, under fire for alleged “re- actionary” policies, that he believes universities should extend the same opportunities for liberal expressions as for conservative ones. The Governor made a flying trip to attend the executive session of the trustees, but explained that he had not been aware that the Legislature was contemplating an investigation of the school's policles until he read late yesterday of the vote at Harrisburg. “I was received courteously but without much enthusiasm,” Earle said after the meeting, which was attended by 18 trustees, including the board president, George H. Clapp and Chancellor John G. Bowman. IN “MADAME BOVARY.” “Madame Bovary,” based on the novel by Gustave Flaubert, will be the feature at the foreign language cinema in Pierce Hall tomorrow. This film was produced by the La Nouvelle Societe de Pilms, under the direction of Jean Renoir, and is & successful adaptation. Valentine Tessier plays the title role. See Feature at 10:30- 120-4'15-705-10:00 counts. He checks the names of those mentioned as being assigned roles in various studios. ‘This upside-down village is a place of high-fever enthusiasms. Many of them pale out and never materialize. Some of them have brief bloomings. ‘The latest “rage” is young David Niven of London and way places, who took a test at Metro, really against his will, it would seem. At least that’s his story. The test was different from any- thing that ever has been done in in Hollywood. Young Niven, clinging to his idea of not being railroaded into picture stardom, refused to memorize a script. So he was made up for the screen, and told to sit down and tell the camera just what he had told the director who wanted to make the test. It seems it runs something like this: “I don't quite know why I am here. I am not an actor. I do not want to be an actor. They have put this paint on my face and seated me in this chair and told me to talk to you, casually, and to act in an easy and social manner, etc., etc.” _ The young man put such enthusiasm into his slightly derogatory estimate of & motion-picture test that he ACADEMY ©f Feriset Sound raoionias E. Layrence Phillips Theatre Beautiful 11th 8 N. C. Ave. 8K Double Feature “JEALOUSY" and_“RED HEAD." CIRCLE 2105 Pa. Ave., Ph. WE. 0953 MA Mat. Tues.. Thurs.. Sat., Sua. DY FORD in “A Kelly Comedy. DUMBARTON a3 e £z FAIRLAWN , #2072, 6, &U'l}xRGsAFG. CHARLIE CHASE and PRINCESS __mesecnr ~-A.am|. OF THE LIMBERLOST.” “WEDNESDAY' ¥'S CHILD." SECO 8718 Georsia Ave. Silver Spring. Md. Continuous From 6:00 P.M GEORGE RAFT and JEAN PARKER i “LIMEHOUSE BLUES. & Serial__Comedy. _Cartoon. STANTON '3, a0d © st Finest Sound Eq! Continuous From 5:30 P. ANNA NEAGLE in BITTERSWEET." Also NE. ent STEPIN FETCHIT in 7 “BACHELOR OF ARTS. Also at 7:00 and 9:40 PM. MADGE ‘F]?Ei and RICHARD A,x'u.nc in THKOMA & i Wi BA! AN “BROADWAY BILL.” BELAS(O ~ ST. PATRICK’S DANCE Benefit of H. L. of Forelen Wars areh 16, AM. Only Tickets Will_Be Accepted. filmed like a million and recorded like nothing in the world. Producers all ver town are sending for the Niven ‘What will come of it? Perhaps nothing at all. Perhaps everything. test is & novelty. Young Niven be no good at all with other peo- ple’s lines in his mouth. He may be | better than when reciting his own feather-light woes. And pro- ducers merely may be diverted into| ; dmwrmby the novelty of & very dif- | erent test. I understand the clever | Edmund Goulding, who never does| | Mar. 19, 8:30 Cogiyties things in a routine way, told Mr. Popular Prices. 85 to £2.%0. Niven to speak his-mind. | | T gArtner smith. 1330 Gk Kitww ‘When the Irish players appeared | here in Hollywood, there, in the front rows, was Una O'Connor, who made | her debut with the Abbey crowd. And, to her laughing astonishment, there were the players in the self-same cos- tumes they wore when Una walked on the stage for the first time. “That’s art,” says Una, with a toss of her fiery little head, “and those are actors!” (Copyright. 1935, Newspa| TRIUMPHANT Return After 15 Years Jflmufl Violinis Sines Paramind, :KUBELI N by North American r Alllance, Inc.) CONTINENTAL * REVUE Auspices A. F. G. E. Sick Benefit Associations 15 Star Acts 15 HAROLD KNIGHT and His Columbia Broadcasting Orchestra 50c \\Sat., Mar. 16 #5% Washington Auditorium Tickets at Droops & Kitts DRAMA “SOCIAL.” ‘The directors of many dramatic groups in the District of Columbia | and vicinity are among the guests who have been invited to the dramatic | social to be held Sunday evening at| RN the Burlington Hotel by the Black- friars Guild. A lecture on the drama by the Rcv.‘ Walter Plimmer of the Sulpician | Seminary, the Catholic University of | America, a one-act play, written | and directed by Miss Dorothy David- | son of the guild, vocal selections by | N Walter Slattery and a reception will | comprise the program. ! ASN 35014' with EL 1€ BARR(? eV ADAIR .. Dsece DE BORI* RUTH LONG ~DOROTHY. JER L LAMPKI Tomorrow. Continuous From 1:00 P.M.— OFMAN. WHO RECLAIMED HIS HEAD “WHEN LI and ‘W ING_STRIKES." HIPPODROME p35oe Featare Return Engagement by Popular Demand MAE WEST in “She Done Him Wrong.” Ricardo Cortez in_“Big Executive.” Starting Tomor.. Mo J Penner_in_“Collt CAMEO Today 2 Marisn Marsh in “Girl of the Lim- © |ARCADF BYATTayLLE. MD. g CLAUDETTE COLBERT, ‘e “IMITATION OF LIFE.” & |RICHMOND "‘-mdu-'x\:.:n:'n;-‘ W._C. Fields. “David_Copperfield.” ARCADE oy Laurel, Hardy. “Babes in Toyland." AMBASSADOR oi'e." Cel. BA. N.W. GARY _COOPER. FRANCHOT TONE. LIVES OF A BENGAL. s RKO-Keith’s—“Roberta,” at 11:32 | Washington as Comdr. Wead of the am, 1:34, 3:36, 5:38, 7:40 and 9:42 | United States Navy, an ace flyer, who, pm. |in 1924 set the world endurance rec- Tivoli—‘Rumba,” at 2:35, 4:20, 6:10, | ord in a seaplane. 7:55 and 9:45 p. | While “Ceiling Zero” has an avi- Ambassador—"Lives of a Bengal | ation background, it is not a “flying” Lancer,” at 5:45, 7:40 and 9:35 p.m. story, but deals with the lives and . Howard—Screen feature at 12:30, | loves, the humor and pathos of those 8:50, 7:05 and 10:10 pm. Dan Red- | intrepid pioneers who travel the sky- * man and his orchestra at 2:40, 5:50 | ways. - and 9:05 p.m. Osgood Perkins, whose most recent | : engagement was in Noel Coward’s At Howard ¥ Guaranteed by the Marketers of BETHOLINE RICHFIELD 16 VITAPHONE GIRLS & Georgie Tapps BUSTER SHAVER GEORGE & OLIVE | JOHN &.?AEEL!Y. MASON ROSCOE ATES SHERWOOD BROS.,INC. 1723 Consecticut Ave, N.W, DECATUR é1: IDNEY LUST “Point Valaine,” has one of the lead- ing roles in “Ceiling Zero.” Mr., Perkins played one of his first big parts under Mr. Pemberton’s manage- ment in “Loose Ankles.” RKO o 624 8 St. NB. 1 e Matinee. 2: .M. RAMON NOVARRO in “NIGHT I8 YOUNG.” _Comedy. 645 Pa. Ave. S.E Matinee. 2:00 P.M. NDOLPH SGOTT in “HOME ON RN HARGE. > Our Gang Com. TENTRA] 98 8t bet. Dand K CENTRAL :‘;“a:::v_-‘.'v'vm '“ JEROME KERN’ Miracle, Musical /4 BROWN. sWhTTm': “TEXAS TERROR." ; - “AYIN‘Ml artoon. oLl = o & Fa oA NN Matinee, 2:00 P.M. "'&"u‘.’.'flf‘-".fl;'%‘zm Comedy. Yo Ga. Ave. & MADY _CHRISTIANS in 'f“m WOMAN."__Comedy. - TESSE THEATER "8 52~ JopN SATTORE, SHL"BrbRL" N st A BT Aw N W. C. PIELDS and LEROY in “IT'S A GIFT." By Hovelty. Berial. PAIM THEATER ™ T R { DON REDMAN And his orchestra are being fea- tured as the stage attraction of the current show at the Howard. DANCING. B Y g i ;r‘lly. 8:30 to_11:30 p.m.. with Orel Prl ppol . Met. 4 EDW. F. MILLER STUDIO 81 St.—NA. 8093, R we teach it Leroy H. Thayer Studios Special Spring Cli there been SEE RO pecial pring R 3 Now Forming urae s> allet, Tap. Acrobatic Dancing rrective and Reducing Exercises Call for Appointment to Visit a Class lio Two 1223 Conmnecticut Ave, Met. 4121 i uted lenty of glowing adjectives and oodles af. l\lp;!‘l'wfi v:v:m 24 in the advance advertising of IS‘I::T:. LY . i the capacity audiences epplovd: } o :::lr see ::O:nl coming back agein and again fo see the pi hes we realize that we put it mildly! Honestly never before o anything quite so wo Surfully enterfaining + - - ¥ BERTA! : %é‘%