Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1935, Page 40

AMUSEMENTS. New Play Has Premiere ‘At National Next Week .;Ceiling Zero" to Be Launched Monday Evening. Attractive Schedule of the Cinema Houses. Other Notes of Stafie and Screen. * BY E. de S. MELCHER. The play of the week will be “Ceiling Zero,” a drama NOTES on the new week’s entertainments: of the air which has been written by Lieut. Comdr. Frank Wead, one of Hollywood's shrewdest scenarists, and now being The cast 1is launched via the footlights by Brock Pemberton. headed by Osgood Perkins, late newspaper philosopher in “Point Valaine” and, incidentally, one of the best actors in the country. Although 'Mr. Perkins care§ ve little for the movies, it is understood that his new play is being backed by the Warner Bros., Men On a Horse,” suddenly bec as Hollywood conscious. Perry, John Litel and in a_smal son of Ethel Barrymore. the National Monday night. = A note has just come from Hardie Meakin saying: “R-K-O Keith's is talling & new sound equipment, ence comes the explanation of the scltlvny around that Fifteenth street eater for the past few nights. En- gineers from the R. C. A. Victor labo- ratories in Camden, N. J., have been installing the new ‘high fldellt\ re- production system, which will {:ady not later than Sunday.” eakin doesn't say that this new fem cost him $10,000, “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” bpens today at the Belasco. Directed by Stuart Walker, this last Dickens sl work is currently being acted on the | screen by Claude Rains, Douglas Montgomery and Heather Angel. More about it tomorrow. Wire from Carter Barron: “All of the personable celebrants of Monday night are expected to comprise a gay group when they gather at Loew's Fox ‘Theater at 8:30 Friday night to salute Phil Lampkin,” etc. Whether “Let's Live Tonight,” with “Tullio Carminati and Lillian Harvey, approaches “One Night of Love” re- | mains to be seen. Since it has Mr. Carminati, however, and music, and since Victor Schertzinger directed it and Columbia Pictures produced it, it should have some of the same sub- stance—with, of course, La Harvey for Grace Moore. The stage show will be headed by Mitzi Green, one of the screen’s first Shirley Temple’s and now grown to woman's estate, She imitates George Arliss and others. Don't forget that Mrs. Mann will epeak at Pierce Hall Saturday. Her topic will be “Adventures of a Nat- uralist's Wife.” Since Mrs. Mann is rot only Mrs. Mann, but the author | of “From Jungle to Zoo” and the wife of Mr. Mann, director of the National Zoological Park, there ought to be much interest in this. Her talk is be- ing sponsored by the Women's Inter- nstional League, which is the local backer for that interesting Children's Theater of New York, which comes here often—but not often enough. Due to constant pressure from a greedy public, “It Happened One Night,” with Clark Gable and Clau- cette Colbert, is being brought back to the Metropolitan tomorrow. This is the picture that won about 99 of the 100 possible prizes given this sea- son by the Motion Picture Academy. (Grace Doro, pianist, will appear on the stage at the Earle Theater Fri- day, replacing Bob Hall, who has been released from his engagement to ful- Aill another. contract.) The Loew’s Fox Theater is pretty much excited abows its new film, the newest celluloid edition of George White's “Scandals,” which will open there tomorrow. The cast is headed by Mr. White himself, and Eleanor Powell (who has danced frequently in Wash- ington), Ned Sparks, Alice Faye, Lyda Roberti, Jimmie Dunn, Cliff Edwards, | Benny Rubin and others. Phil Lamp- kin is playing a third anniversary overture, which he has called “The Overture of Overtures,” and Benny Davis will present his newest “Star | Dust Revue.” Nora Ford comes to the Gayety | Eundav “Roberta,” as you may have heard, is being held over for a fourth week | at R-K-O Keith's. The next attraction at this theater | will be “Laddie,” with John Beal and Gloria Stuart. A letter from Mr. Beal The play has its be | Mr. | who, by their wisdom in backing “Three ame Broadway conscious as well Mr. Perkins is supported by Antionette ller role by John Drew Colt, the “world premiere” at | Rogers and not Bert Lahr as it's star, will continue for a second week at the Palace. When Will isn't stealing the show “Slim” Sommerville is. Jane Darwell and Rochelle Hudson are good, too. (The fourth annual garden exhibit | at Loew's Fox begins tomorrow. The Architectural Club of Central High School is said to have an unusually interesting representation of model houses and whatnot.) Shirley Temple comes back to the Columbia tomorrow in probably her greatest success, “The Little Colonel.” Lionel Barrymore, Bill Robinson. Ev- elyn Venable and John Lodeg appear ;m Miss Temple's support. 'A SAD PLAY AND WEEPING IN AUDIENCE Is | “Field of Honor” Story of Good Old German. “Field of Honor,” which the ever- experimenting Pierce Hall Players per- formed last night in their auditorium, while “a bit on the sad side,” gave & certain local actor the chance of a ! lifetime., Not that Frank Jamison hasn't had many chances and taken them all (so rumor goes) by the horns. | But in this play by Betty Souby he | has a chance to be gay, to be| | whimsical, to be sentimental, | sad and to die. What more could an actor hope for? Mr. Jamison undertook all these duties with great ease and when he | was dead the audience was generally sorry. For, in the meantime, he had | | trotted around the stage as “Peter | Breyfogle, 8 German watchmaker liv- |ing in Kansas City, Mo., during the war and he had done great good in his community, forgiving a bandit for holding him up by giving him a Bible, forgiving his son for going. to the war as a Yankee, forgiving his daughter for being kicked out of the house when she stood up for Yankeeisrd and thwarting a scheme to blow up at’least half of Kansas City. ‘When, then, his eyesight had failed him, his son was dead on the battle- fleld, his daughter had had a 'baby and his invention had been smashed, although it was obviously time to die, his death was cordially regretted by the large audience that attended this production of Mrs. Souby’s new play. Mrs. Souby is at her best when she {is sentimentalizing. Large slices of iher philosophy were most pleasant to | the ear. Whether or not they have lbeen strung out at too great length in this play ‘s a question. Certainly | the play is very, very sad. However, | many neople last night seemed to feel | that this was a “elief from the more Hrefluem rowdyisms of modern plays, | and they cried *heir eyes out as Peter | | Breyfogle fought his losing fight with “life.” Of the sther players Helen Shields | yesterday from the R-K-O studios in | Hollywood says that working on three pictures at once— that “Laddie” is one of them, that K. Hepburn's new film, “Heartbreak,” is the second, and that “Les Miserables” is the third. Nice going, Mr. Beal. Remember when he made his stage | debut here at the Belasco in “An- other Language"? “Life Begins at 40,” Where and When Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing. National—“Life Begins at 8:40,” to- night at 8:30 p.m. Loew's Fox—“Folies Bergere,” 10:45 am., 1:30, 4:15, 7:19 and 10 pm. Stage shows at 12:25, 2:10, 6 'and 8:55 p.m. | Earle—“Ruggles of Red Gap,” at| 11 am., 1:40, 4:25, 7:10 and 9:55 \pm. Stage shows at 12:45, 3:35, 6:25 | :l.nd 9:05 pm. Palace—"Life Begins at 40,” at 11 , 1:05, 3:15, 5:20, 7:30 and 9:40 | H Belasco— “Mystery of Edwin Drood,” Bt 11:30 am, 1:13, 2:56, 4:39, GZZ fi 14 and 10:05 p.m. % Columbia—"Under Pressure,” at A2:20, 2:15, 4:10, 6:05, 8 and 9:55 E | “Love in Bloom," , 3:30, 5:30, 7:40 and = R-K-O Keith’s—"Roberta,” at 11:32 $m, 1:34, 3:36, 5:38, 7:40 and 9:42| .m. | Tivoli—“Scarlet Pimpernel,” :50, 5:40, 7:30 and 9:20 p.m. - Ambnndor—“uter Office Hours,” at 2, the Marketers of SETHOLINE and RICHFIELD SHERWOOD BROS.,INC. DANCING he has been | | which has Will | at| I'-nlm ATIONAL | Eves.. $1.10 to T saty bhe o 2030, LAST 4 TIMES MESSRS. SHUBERT Present New York Winter Garden Musieal ‘LIFE BEGINS AT 8:40' |} BERT LAHR RAY BOLGER | LUELLA GEAR \' | lurl. FRANCES WILLIAMS Selfsame N. Y. Cast. Direct from N. ¥. A Jobn Murray Anderson Production FAMOUS BEAUTY BRIGADE | at Next Week, Beg. Mon., Seats Sdlin[ ! Brock Pemberton presents i "CEILING ZERO' A daring, dynamic drama | By FRANK WEAD with 0Osgood Perkins Margaret Perry. John B. Litel Staged by Antoinette Perry and Mr. Evenings, Mats., 5be to $2.20. National Thenter. April 4, 4:45 CARLTON GAULD Leading Basso. Opera Comique. Paris | Replacing CHALIAPIN on Five-Star Course 2.5, $2.20. $1.65, um -t mith ‘Bureau. in also at theater. 1 PR T, Arthur 1330 G st STARTS TODAY! EDWIN DROOD Charles Dickens CLAUDE RAINS POUGLASS M.ONT.GOMERY HEATHER ANGEL < DAVID MANNERS “Heartlly m-m"—sh:“ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Screen and Stage Players Attractmg Local Attentlon Lillian Harvey .(upper left) ap- pears with Tulllo 'minati in “Let's Live Tonight,” which opens tomorrow at the Earle. Dixie Dun- bar (at right) is one of the more populnr players in “Life Begins at " now playing at the National. Bclow Alice Faye and CUff Edwards do a Romeo and Juliet in George White's new screen “Scandals,” which comes to the Fox tomorrow. < gave a sincere performance in an ex- tremely difficult role, and Elinor Cox Karsten made Mina Schultz one of the few real characters. Clarence Moore was Miss Shields’ enthusiastic boy friend, and some of the pandits were very, very rough indeed. Stuart and Mina Hachstadt, as the voung children, received the biggest band (other than Mr. Jamison at the end) of the evening—and they deserved it. The direction scemed to us to be frequently at fault. E. de 8. M. —_— Manufacturer Is Suicide. ‘WEST POINT, Miss., March 28 (®). —A coroner’s jury reported Tuesday that J. B. Walker, 55, president of the West Point Manufacturing Co., fa- tally shot himself in the right temple with a shotgun at his home here Monday night. A. D. Simmons, vice president of the company, expressed the opinion that the act was due to poor health. BASS0'S RECITAL. Carlton Gauld, an American who has won many plaudits abroad and heralded as the greatest basso since Pol Plancon, will be heard at the National Theater Thursday afternoon of next week at 4:45 p.m. under the local management of the T. Arthur Smith Bureau. Gauld will be the fifth of the artists to be presented in the Five Star series, appearing in place of Feodor Chaliapin, whose con- cert here this season has been def- initely cancelled on account of illness. Mr. Gauld’s Washington concert will be his only appearance in America this season, as he sails April 6 to con- tinue his yearly contract with the Opera, Comique in Paris. His here will open with three arias, “Hear Me, Ye Winds and Waves,” from Handel's “Scipio”; Charon’s aria from See Feature at 10:00-12 20-2:40 5:00-7.40-10:00 ON STAGE The Lovable Screen Star MITZI GREEN Youthful Star of “Tom Sawyer,” Skippy,” etc. In Person CHARLIE MELSON & IRMANETTE GRACE DORO HAL SAND'S REVELS OF 1935 The Picture that WON THE FIVE ACADEMY AWARDS for the Stars Director, Producer, & Author CLARK GABLE ° TOMORROW N3 vou MISSED IT BEFORE SEE IT NOW SAW IT BEFORE . SEE ur mm DIRECTED BY FRANK CAPRA (CLAUDETTE . COLBERT ir IIII'PEIIEII ED ONE NIGHT Sclc;! Shorts Warner Bros ME'I‘RODOI.I'I'AN program | ACADEMY © tsgtSeeae .'r-_'-' Direction of Sidney Lust | C., THURSDAY, “Alceste” by Lully. and Leporella’ aria from Mozart's “Don Giovanni.” A group of French songs, four songs from the “Dichterliebe,” by Schu- mann, two songs by Schubert and numbers by O'Hara, Margetson, Kra- mer and Fisher will complete his| program. Alderson Mowbray will be his accompanist. ‘The T. Arthur Smith Concert Bu- reau anounces that tickets being held for the Chaliapin concert will be good for Carlton Gauld. B uvéom&e rmlugomno:nre BQIHW “THE coum"’§r° B ATRMAN. ASHTON JOI MORRXBON ll!m 2105 Pa. MARCH -28, 1936. AMUSEME ELECT OFFICERS. The Circolo Filodrammatico Ital- iano of Washington (Italian Dramatic Club), an organization founded for the purpose of enhancing the Italian language and culture among the Ital- ian residents of Washington, and whose dramatizations are sponsored for charity, at & reorganization meet- ing held on February 1, elected the following officers for this year: Pred Colaprico, president; Leonora Palermo, vice president; Tosca Fattorini, sec- retary; Anthony De Pino, treasurer; Nicholas Valenza, public relations manager, and V. Pigallo is being re- tained as director. At this meeting, presided over by Ugo Carusi, retiring president, the final report of the comedy, P JIWG Kllut "lO.II'I'A" FRED A “LADDIE “Adio NT Gilovinezza.” presented at the Belasco Theater December 2, 1934, was read. The entire profits were expended in purchasing baskets of food which were distributed among needy Italian fam- ilies of Wuhlnmn at Christmas. Comtitition Hall, Sanday, April 7, 4 P, M. 0 MART 3 Teur, ote s -un e c.nr- $1.10-52.20, Mrs. Dorsey’s 1300 G. Al D Nexi ‘ed. Aft.. Apr. LE Lsew’s PALACE SLIM SUMMERVILLE ROCHELLE HUDSON GEORGE BARBIER JANE DARWELL RICHARD CROMWELL Gtia BEN TURPIN COMEDY and NEWS BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, in Stanley Hall this evening at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmermann. band- master. Anton Pointner, assistant leader. March, “La Pere de Victoire..Ganne Overture, “Pociosa” ......Von Weber PFinale, “Hoch Hlnlburl : “The Star Spangled Ban: GAYETY BURLESK Now Playing FRANK X. SILK and EDNA “Hot Cha” DEE Coming, The Gal From Georsis NORA FORD CIRCLE % Faa® RUDY VALLEE u "SWEET MUSIC.” News. Cartoon. BARNUM FAIRMWN GANY COOFER __“LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER. 1110 B St NE ‘Double Peature . in “SU 8244 Georgia Ave. Silver Spring. Md. Continuous From 8:00 PM. ‘WHEELER Continuous Prom_5: RICHARD DIX ITI!H‘ZANI GR!YI E and, MAXINE DOYLE, Starting Tonight_at 6:30 PM. Return Engagement—ROBERT DONA' "*“’Count of Monte Cristo. s, Farking Troubles “WINGS IN THE DARK.” ‘oday Arthur Byron in “The President Vanishes." orTow M oanrTom Randolph 8cott in “Home on the Range.” ARCADE ™T3imToistow ay-Tomorrow Gary Cooper in “Lives of a Bengal Gontinious 6:00 to 11:00 PM. ALEXANDRIA. VA v Chester Morris In “Boctats Boctor ARCADE %% n‘y'-'!‘“‘on“orge Dick Powell. Ruby Keeler. “Dai AMBASSADOR Phone Col. 5305 CLARK GABLE CONSTANCE BEN . 'AFTER OFFICE HOURS. 24 § Kt N.¥ . 3378 Matinee. oioaot’fln ind cuwu: BARD in "RUMBA. Matineo, 200 P.M. Phoms Y snd CARY Gn.uu' ) A OT, 0l 425 m CENTRAI. Pone st Sice “David Copperfield.” unlt ll‘-l RA NW. SAVOY « Col. 4968 "‘356-1‘.".‘.1}."3& WARNER BROS. THEATERS o Ga. An. %P’ W.—:mu. ‘Rommee‘in%thn , HUM-ABLE SING-ABLE DANCE-ABLE A FOX PICTURE WITH ALICE FAYE JAMES DUNN NED SPARKS LYDA ROBERTI 1, $1.50, 52, $2.50, §3 (no tax) 7o 1300 G. Drocs s NA. 1161 F AT 13TH .. A5 HiS FUNNIEST PICTURE YES WE RE HOLDING IT OVER A ‘LIFE BEGINS o 40 A FOX PICTURE Laut times Zoday. Sdmund LOWE Victor MCLAGLEN<UNDER PRESSURE' FR CThe'Little Colonel"captures the hearts o Washington for ANOTHER WEEK SHIRLEY TEMPLE LIONEL BARRYMORE '%l . 8ILL ROB i NSON ABLE CLIFF EDWARDS ELEANOR POVIEI.I. GEORGE WHITE 200 beautiful gulx and :uch songs ... "Accord- ing to the Moo Born Too Late,” "It ond others. BENNY DAVIS 'his new STAR DUST R eaturing JIMMY SHEA & GUY RAYMOND ROLLO PICKERT - EDITH MANN BEBE SHERMAN * BOBBY BERNARD EVELYN-FARNEY & JIMMY BURNS BLANCHE LEWIS SHAVO SHERMAN WINSTEAD TRIO * DANNY WHITE light,” "Hunkadola," "l Was 's An Old Southern Custom™ PHIL |.AMPKIN OVERTUBE of OVERTURES" CHORAL SINGING BY 16 VOICES.. mnimgfmo v L LAsT e EQLIES BERGERE “wi#¢ MAURICE CHEVALIER v oftege.. HERB WILLIAMS ¢ and OTHERS