1935-07-07 [P F-5]

DRAMA CARRIES ON IN PLAYHOUSES AND ON SCREEN ------ a _____4.-A Next Week** Films wrrHOUT NAMES,” an ex- Casino Theater Peter Pan Comes Back Trio Stars in M-G-M’s “China Seas” “MEN1 Newport citing screen story of the ad- ■ .-.JIMil.JUJ 1.1. .1 ..■ ventures of a Government sleuth In After Years his campaign to round up an under- Fails to Open This Season Eighteen world gang, and a diversified stage Mil that co-headlines Prank and Milt Britton Band and Grace Hayes will Tears Are Shed Over Fashionable Playhouse Maude Adams’ Return to Broadway Next comprise the new entertainment Loew's Pox will offer next week. Season Recalls Her Earlier * Which Remains Dark This Summer- Triumphs Grace Moore comes to the Earle in "Love Me Forever." to the Hundred. and Her Great Theater Friday Catered Four Popularity. Victor 8chertzlnger directed and com- posed its title song, just as he did for "One Night of Love.” Leo Carlllo. By Lucius Beebe. E. de S. Metcher. has the chief By star of many films, witty and malicious Don Marquis brought his epigrammatic something about the sound of Maude Adams' name that role, while others In the supporting artillery to bear on the harassed Summer theaters in the most conjurs up instant admiration. When Washington saw her a cast include Michael Bartlett, 8pring recent issue of Paul Yawitz's Column Review, and further reduced few seasons ago as a silvery-tongued Portia, she was awarded Allon and Luis Al- Byington, Robert THEin its disintegration an already battered and wounded institution. THERE'Sone of the few genuine ovations of that particular theatric season. the Earle will bernl. On the stage Heaven knows it was almost like kicking the crutch out from under a Ladies and gentlemen who hadn't been to the theater in years, bolted as headliners Cross and Dunn. present tottering old lady, but Mr. Marquis justified himself with a deal of down to the as if their lives on it. And row National depended upon out that his shafts were directed More Ladles” will be at fluent ease and was careful to point row was filled with a and honorable collection of faces. “No played quaint happy the house sort of Summer venture a downtown theater for a third week against olde-tyme redde-bam-play Miss Adams is now 62. She will where Miss Mack is about to be boiled than established suburban as those at when it is shown at Loew’s Columbia rather against such companies appear next Fall on Broadway in In oil, or something, you get the same Theater, starting Friday. Joan Craw- Ellitch’s Gardens at Newport or Southampton. a new play by Adelyn Bushnell—and sort of kick as you got when Kong ford and Robert Montgomery, as a The cows, asserted the humani- every opening mgnt at tne casino under John Golden's management. was fumbling around those mountains happy, scrappy pair of newlyweds who tarian, Mr. Marquis, ought to have since it was reopened, after an in- And that appearance will mark her snd making mincemeat out of puny try to make their marriage workable some place to seek shelter from the terval, some years ago by William H. return after 18 years to a theater mortals. In of odds stacked against them, noonday heat and the ensuing after- Vanderbilt. “A number of prominent that knew her weU as Peter Pan and Mr. Cooper becomes, therefore, a spite are the stars of this film that noon of the season. It was stars writes the erudite Mr, Little Babbie. sort of “Grand Guignol" of Hollywood. bright tempests appeared,” also boasts the presence of Edna brutal to turn the cows out of their Seton, "and a number of interesting It is possibly treason to hope that His mission Is to frighten and to elec- May Oliver, Charles Ruggles, Franchot oewsheds, and It was brutal to bring plays were produced. Each opening after returning to the stage Miss trify. He doesn't stoop to screaming Tone and others. the Summer actors in and turn them night Mr. Vanderbilt entertained in Adams will then turn to the screen. monsters and bats and lowered lights; for loose upon the unhappy community. his box the star of the following But such is our Sabbath We he probably doesn't care two figs comes to Warner Bros.' plea. Richard Dix Not two Summer theaters in a thou- week—Ina Claire, Grace George, Alice have a that her voice would such small fry as Dracula. Instead, in "The suspicion Metropolitan Theater Friday sand supply the pleasure and Ellis and others. into the actually Brady, Mary many record well and that the he lets his imagination sweep an R-K-O-Radio Picture unusually j Arizonian,” instruction in which they are sup- Mr. Vanderbilt always left his box to smal elfin that made her unknown and there conjures up such one of the most quality j based on thrilling posed to deal, said the creator of visit his venerable grandmother, the Barrie's ideal heroine would be re- mighty and formidable schemes and chapters in American history. Margot Archie the Cockroach, their true spe- late Mrs. Cornelius and he that to these young Vanderbilt, created on the screen to everybody’s people compared who won for j Grahame, high praise cialty being amateurish and mal- kissed her hand. I shall never than a mole- always Frankenstein seems less her work In "The Informer,” heads con- advantage. adroit confections that couldn't forget the season in which that de- hill. the cast. a elsewhere. Such a wish may alarm not only supporting ceivably get hearing lightful character actress. Alison Skip- We wonder what will happen if is not Miss Adams, but her many admirers, i The knowledge that a theater worth (now in the sound films», was Cooper ever returns to this earth. Will who may feel that her art Is such a really a going concern on Its own do with such Lilli- in the cast. She gave her customary that an out-in- he know what to Outdoor Amusements. as a fragile, gentle thing merits, but must be supported artful but as Garbo, Dietrich and the performance, provided the-open medium such as the screen putians A PPROACHING the peak of the out- Worthy Cause, will put a neighbor- Could he even unlooked-for amusement offstage. In it. bouncing Miss West? Glen hood off form of artistic en- might destroy door amusement season, any •private life’ she wore very old and have sympathy for the also-daring deavor. We frankly doubt it. The screen Echo Park, with Its trained personnel such very odd attire that the suspi- but infinitesimal Tarzan? When, In has now reached a point where its of more than 200. remains the ideal There aren't as many Summer thea- cion got around that these adornments other words, you spend your life fool- technical resources have been ad- playground for Washingtonians. ters as there were last year, which were salvaged from old she had ing around with King Kongs and plays justed to fit most everybody's mood. Prominent among favorite features should pacify the good, gray prophet in long, long ago! I at- "Shes.” is it ever possible to get back appeared We doubt If the Lunts and Fontannes, providing genuine recreation are Crys- I of Gramercy Park, but there were tended the of ‘An about Mr. opening night to normal? How it, Cooper, for week and even Miss Barrymore, would have tal Pool, with accomrdodatior* j eight new plays tried out last Artist’s Model.’ In which Miss Skip- is it? such harrowing times today as they 3.000 swimmers: the Spanish Garden ! of sufficient importance to be listed worth made her bow to Broadway in had Not the camera, ball where 1.500 dance the by New York yesterday. only T UISE RAINER is tne mi oi me room, couples among openings 1896, and I have a photograph in my but the sound and the director, would ^ on week to the strains of drama editors, while a full dozen week. She is also last week's hit nights lilting collection showing the young and treat them with greater respect. David McWilliams’ 12-plece orchestra: I out-of-town theaters were offering and the hit of the week before that, pretty Alison of that period.” Hollywood has calmed down consid- the coaster dips, offering thrilling tried and familiar successes of the etc. She Is this department’s choice As recently as two seasons ago erably since the roaring 28s and 29s. three-minute ride amid the treetops; last and earlier seasons. for the lady who is destined to go | tickets for Monday evening at the The clatter of temperament has given the pretzel, Glen Echo's new twisty, that tne casino places. You have heard, perhaps, that The intelligence Casino were *5.50 in the urban tradi- way to a good dea' of serious work the Old Mill, with a dozen she is mannered and that her scenes spooky ride: Theater, at Newport, was to be dark “David tion, and evening formality obtained (witness Copperfield"). how- major surprises: the airplane swings this season caused, for all Mr. Mar- are overdone. This is the fault, in every section of the house. Bellvue then. Miss Adams cared to turn that vie with speedy transcontinental quis’ mirth, widespread anguish and If. ever, of the director. Not Miss i avenue will see less of the castled and she would be a planes; the carrousel, where young and confusion.

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