Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1935, Page 36

B—18 AMUSEMENTS, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1935. AMUSEMENTS. “Harmony Lane” Rates Praise for Sincerity Douglass Montgomery Does Brillitnt Work in Story of Stephen Foster at the Rialto. BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, JR. HERE have long been debates among musical authorities as to whether Stephen Collins Foster might have ranked with the great European I composers had he expended his genius in writing classical music rather than popular hits. Some have contended the adaptability of is tunes to choral or semi-symphonic form suggests he might have been another Schubert, had not the need for money and his unhappy personal life required him to turn out pot-boilerss “va:‘s:u‘v’"heflfiiulgr ATt arginiant ’succeuesdor last Winter in New York, is to be done here the week of Octo- ;:: :}‘:{‘ “::;‘:::n‘} f;’l':n;;n’;"[:",‘“:‘ ber 14, with matinees Wednesday and based on Foster's life, is as sincere | | Saturday. Florence Reed will appear as the nurse, Maurice Evans as Romeo, and moving as a divine melody. The Ralph Richardson as Mercutio and picture which reopened the Rialto to Charles Waldron as Friar Laurence the public yesterday embodies some ;. support of Miss Cornell. obvious faults as a drama, but in the realm of unadorned, sentimental story-telling it matches the cream of the crop. Two large, youngish gentle- men seated immediately behind your correspondent at the first show yes- terday were openly sobbing like chil- dren when the curtain fell on “Har- mony Lane,” and we take it they ex- pressed the reaction felt, perhaps less actively, by virtually every one in the house. The gentle admonition “Weep no more, my lady: oh, weep no more today” in the lyric of “My Old Ken- tucky Home” was heeded by no oue, except those in whom it inspired a fresh burst of lacrimals. In part, this pleasingly morose ef-| fect is produced by the Foster music, | Miss Cornell has not been seen here since she appeared at the Belasco, back in March, 1932, in “Barretts of Wimpole Street,” and established a record probably not equaled in any other city in America by selling every seat for her eight performances five days before she arrived in the city. * ok ok ¥ ORE promotions are announced by John J. Payette, Warner Bros. general circuit manager, W. Claude Land being appointed man- ager of the Home Theater and Wal- ter Cannon, chief of service at the Metropolitan, going to the Central as assistant manager. Through an inadvertent oversight Greta Beholds the Russian Landscape ROADSIDERS IN REVIVAL OF “TO DIE AT DAWN” Few Changes Made in Cast as| Two Favorites Return to Line-up of Play. DIE AT DAWN,” the maddest and merriest of the blood, thun- der and shootin'-iron dramas yet per- formed by the Roadside melodrama- tists, last night began a one-week return engagement at Washington's only barn theater, out on the Rockvilie pike. ‘This, you remember, is the piece wherein the “best gal in Kentucky” has to do battle with George Drake, who is not only the king of counter- feiters, but a libertine and murderer as well; wherein the gal is spirited | away by this léecherous villain and | held captive in a cave, there to be‘ horsewhipped, and wherein good old | Silent Dave, the bloodhound of the law, continually lurks about the stage and finally comes out on top, saving the gal. “To Die at Dawn” has more ar- Where and When Current Theater Attractions and Time of Showing. Earle—“Accent on Youth,” at 10:55 25, 4:15, 7 and 9:45 p.m. Stage t 12:40, 3:30, 6:15 and 9 p.m. Fox—"“Dante’s Inferno,” at 10:45 a.m., 1:30, 4:20, 7:05 and 9:55| p.m. Stage shows at 12:30, 3:20, 6:05 and 8:55 p.m. R-K-O Keith's—"Top Hat,” at 1 am., i:35, 3:35, 5:35, 7:35 and pm. Belasco—“My Heart is Calling,” at 12:16, 2:05, 4:08, 6:12, 8:16 and 10:20 pm. Palace—“Anna Karenina,” at 11:25| am., 1:25, 3:30, 5:30, 7:35 and 9:35 p.m. Rialto—“Harmony Lane,” at lz_l 1:45, 3:15, 5:15, 7 and 9 p.m. Stage| shows at 3:15, 7 and 9 o'clock shows only. Metropolitan—“Page Miss Glory.” at 11 am, 1:05, 3:15, 5:20, 7:25 nnd a8 used a3 a running accompaniment to in the announcement made of the the story, and, in part, by an ex-|various promotions last week, says traordinarily sentient performante‘!\ir, Payette, it was not clear that from Douglass Montgomery. The lat-| Guy Wonders, who will be District ter gentlerhan was never a favorite of | manager for the Maryland theaters. this department, and he still has not | will also continue to book the vaude- ! tillery than the closest National Guard | 9:25 p.m. armory, what with practically every | Columbla—*“China Seas,” at 11:15| one in the play emerging at some | am 1:20, 3:25, 5:30, 7:40 and| time or other with & gun in his hand | g:45'pm, 3 Fi pointed at every one else on stage. It also is notable because it presents the scene which is the high light of all these melodrama productions — that bloody affray at the old mill, where various people fall during the unrestrained gunplay and Kentucky's | best gal is started by the villain on & journey into the mill machinery, and is saved from being cut to small, | she first was “bes . if tender, pleces only by the QUICK | fneiy whien It migney bood. Enpar work of her handy boy {riend. | Cox Karsten is just right as her| The cast, for the most part. Is the | mother; Harold Stepler is the drawling- | same as when “To Die at Dawn” was | egt and oiliest villain the Roadside presented earlier in the season, but|pag had, though he succumbs to the there are a few changes which bring | temptation to burlesque slightly, and back & pair of Roadside favorites. Ralph Fowler is an admirable Silent | Frances Brunt has the role of the pave. The rest, for the most part, | villain’s mistress, and though it is not | are right. & very long part, it is long enough so | Anton Hardt directed, Edith I. Allen that Miss Brunt has an opportunity | did the staging, and Dorothy Crois- Ambassador—"Accent on Youth,” at | 6:15, 8:05 and 9:55 p.m. Tivoli—"Shanghal,” at 2:30, 4:15 6:05, 7:50 and 9:40 p.m. Roadside (Rockville pike)—"“To Die at Dawn,” at 8:30 p.m. cast aside every trace of irritating mannerism, but his work as Stephe: Foster merits both respect and praise. *x Xk ¥ X INJO_EFFORT has been made in “Harmony Lane” to build up pro- found characterizations for the two women who figure prominently in the tale, or even for Foster himself. One | of the girls he loves and loses her | through the treachery of another who | wants him for herself. The mondj girl he marries and lives with unhap- | pily. It is faintly difficult to under- | stand why he should have been tor- | turously enamoured of a person so artless as his Susan (Evelyn Venable), or to explain the sudden appearance of ill-will against him in the heart of a lass who had loved him enough to lie and steal to get him for a hus- | band. Perhaps casting added a mite | to that confusion, for Adrienne Ames, ‘Iand and West Virginia, where we | the wife and villainess, would ADDCH" at first glance to be the warmer- | hearted and more sympathetic of the | two women. In any event, easily forgotten “Old Black Joe, “Kentucky Home"” and “Oh, Susanna, the latter developed before your very | eyes in one of the cleverest sequences | in the play. The “Dreamer” number‘ sung by Montgomery likewise is gen- uinely appealing, emphasizing the strain of melancholy which runs through almost all of Foster's music up to the last he wrote before he | died in the public ward of Bellevue Hospital in New York, a broken and hopeless alcoholic. | Joseph Cawthorn and William Fraw- ley contribute satisfactorily to the production with their limning of an old music teacher and Foster's great friend Christie, the minstrel man. ‘The Rialto also features a prologue to the picture sung by Katherine Law- | lor and the Crinoline Girls, and the close of the picture is followed by an epilogue of Foster meodies sung by the Southernaires. * %k X X "ANNAPOLXS FAREWELL” will | come to the Metropolitan Fri- | day, instead of Jack Haley and Ann Sothern in “The Girl Friend.” Sir | Guy Standing, Tom Brown, John | Howard and Richard Cromwell are | featured in the Annapolis film. | Loew’s Columbia gets a full-length | Laurel and Hardy feature, “Bonnie | Scotand,” at the end of this week. Sl { ATHARINE CORNELL is coming | to the National with her produc- tion of “Romeo and Juliet.” - Miss Cornell’'s coming was hinted a num- ber of times last season, but this seems to be official, as it comes direct frem ‘Miss Cornell's office in New York. The play, one of the outstanding | these {frailties are midst a deluge of ville acts at the Earle Theater. “We have had a very successful | vaudeville and picture policy at the says Mr. Payette in | Earle Theater,” his announcement. “Those affiliated with the success of this policy will continue in simllar capacities “Mr. Wonders has been booking the stage attractions for the Earle The- ater since we inaugurated the policy of vaudeville and photoplays five years ago and will continue to do so in addition to his supervision of | all our theaters in the State of Maryland. “Mr. Wonders is so well acquainted | | with vaudeville agents and perform- | ers that, through the Warner Bros | service in New York, he will also book vaudeville for all the Warner theaters in this territory. This includes the- aters in the States of Virginia, Mary- played vaudeville last season, in addi- tion to several houses wherein we expect to adopt the vaudeville policy this year.” In view of the fact that Mr. Won- ders and Nat Glasser, who is district | manager for the Virginia theaters, | | will be in their respective territories so much, Mr. Payette has realigned | some of the home office work. making Nat Browne general secretary in the | Washington office. George A. Crouch, assistant zone manager for the 35 Warner theaters in this zone, will continue to assist Mr. Payette in the buying and book- | ing of all screen products used in this | territory. Mr. Crouch is the oldest | employe in point of service now asso- ciated with these theaters, his career having started in 1908 with Harry M. Crandall. Mr. Crouch is well known to Washingtonians, having started in the Crandall days in & minor capacity, | until now he has become assistant | zone manager. 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