Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1935, Page 13

MACKAYE URGES NATIONAL THEATER " Advocates Artfor Art’s Sake | Before House Committee on Patents. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Pleading for establishment of a national theater in Washington where the great plays of the future can be produced, Percy MacKaye, author of “Wakefleld,” the festival produced during the Washington Bicentennial celebration, yesterday told the House Committee on Patents: . “We have to cater to the gutter with sensuous, voluptuous plays. We should have a theater where the light of young genius can aspire to see his work carried out as he envisioned it, not as it is rewritten by a producer who has eyes only for the box office.” Urges Art for Art's Sake. Under the chairmanship of Repre- sentative William I. Sirovich, Demo- crat, of New York, who is himself & dramatist, the House Patents Com- mittee is conducting hearings on a bill to establish a new department of science, art and literature. The goal of a national theater, free from the necessity of making money and which would be established for the production of art for art's sake, ‘Mr. MacKaye said, “has been a dream wINNERS ANNOUNCED fostered ever since the stage began | its tumultuous career in this country.” He emphasized that one of the ° most important essentials for develop- ment of art in the theater is to foster @ relationship between play, actor and | audience. In contrast he pointed out that the film industry's sequences | held for the Fauquier Tuberculosis As- are unrolled in reel after reel, utterly | sociation were Andrew Bartenstein, | oblivious to the applause or temper | of the audience. Sculptor Is Witness. J. Anthony Atchison, a Washing- ton sculptor, was also & witness in support of the pending legislation on the ground that it would take greed | Wins Alimony OIL OFFICIAL’S WIFE AWARD- ED DECREE. MRS. PHYLLIS SHAW STEWART, who won an uncontested divorce from Robert Griffin Stewart, 46, former official of the Standard Ofl Co. of New Jersey. Stewart is the son of Col. Robert W. Stewart, for- mer chairman of the Board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. Mrs. Stewart, 35, is to be paid $750 monthly alimony until remarriage or an agreed settlement of $250,000 is paid. —A. P. Photo. AT FAUQUIER BENEFIT Special Dispatch to The Btar. WARRENTON, Va, April 26— Among the winners at the gymkhana Alex Calvert, Miss Lucy Duer, Miss| Dorothy Neyhart, Marshal Wallach, | D. W. Pancost, Gordon Barnewall, | Patsy Downs, Barney Brittle, Kenneth | Jenkins and Randolph Nichols. A large crowd was present and a | good sum was realized. Tea was sold and Mrs. R. C. Winmill took many | out of the culture of this country. He | passengers in her miniature pony | #aid that the pending bill would “hold 8 torch to light the path of art along which the literary gems will have an opportunity to shine in all their glory. We must create a situation where justice will not be crushed. We must have absolute truth and beauty ex- pressed in one idea.” | Earl A. Cuevas, poet laureate of | Mississippi, also testified in support of | the measure. PHI BETA GAMMA HOLDS | BANQUET TOMORROW Benator King and Leo Rover to Speak—Iota Chapter to Be Installed. The thirteenth annual banquet and | dance of Phi Beta Gamma, national | legal fraternity, will be held tomorrow evening at the Arlington Hotel, with Benator William H. King and Leo Ro- ver, formerly district attorney, as speakers. Installation of Iota Chapter of the fraternity will be held at 6:30 o'clock, | followed by the banquet at 7 and | dancing at 9. The chapter key will be presented to J. 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