— ■ r ____ to Mark , Tudor Pageantry Three Noted of the and Screen Reciting the Many Trials Players S'age j * Week’s Plays and Films Of a “Destructive Critic” and "Mary of Scotland” at the National Henry Eut Special Attention Is Paid to the Fact That on With Helen VIII the Screen, Hayes This Season s Theatrical Output Has Not and Charles Laughton as the Stars. Resorted to Old-Time Tricks. By E. de S. Melcher. By Percy Hammond. : "OR"GW'S week will be alive with Tudor pageantry. "Mary honest confession is good for the soul, one is disposed this oi Scotland." which is a sequel to Maxwell Anderson's "Queen morning to be^apologetic for a few of the major mistakes that T; Elizabeth." will be at the National, and later on in the week recently have been made by these reports. Especially have they SINCEgone amiss in their that Miss McFadden’s “Double Mr. Laughton's version of the private doings of Henry VIII hinting will be at Keith's. Of the latter, we know something; of the other, Door" and Mr. O’Neill’s “Ah. Wilderness" lacked the properties of we know nothing—and yet the dovetailing of these two events is full-grown entertainment and might annoy rather than fascinate gcmcihing unparalleled in the city's theatric annals. those drama-lovers whose age-teeth have been cut. It was here said What matters most^nbout ‘'Mary” is that Helen Hayes is playing that “Double Door" was a blunt melodrama, in whose amateur com- awkwardness instead the title role. This is a bit of casting which is typical Theater Guild position of skill penciled, and that it was an bravado. Miss Hayes is the last person whom, for instance, the overdone hypocrisy, based on the dull mystery of the stupid Wendell dan. Of films would put in such a role. For this reason we presume that she “Ah, Wilderness” it was suggested that it was but a loose is happy about it, since her last screen job. the small part in "Night and little barn-stormer, dashed off by the First Showman as an im- in Flight," is about as thankless a business as we can imagine. pudent essay mediocrity, and saved from being completely banal i-rcsumzoiy Mr. Anaerson. in nn wnoie mm. it is not child s tare, but by the acting of George Cohan. !>' .vsings thi rug'.i Elizabethan chroni- adult entertainment, based on fact, in tnese impressions my judgment, *ici uuw.v xii suui Mniui romances as cles. became stirred to fever pitch by made pala'.able by fiction and so honest though not my taste, betrayed me. Sailor, Beware!” and "The Pursuit of the dramatic possibilities of the Scot- in some of its moments that certain Both "Double Door” and "All. Wilder- Happiness all the wicked words arc tish queen. Being linked by several members of the press have blushed at ness” are now high in the esteem of said and all the naughty deeds are done fates to her British neighbors. Mary it air a:’: playgoers and are performed daily be- without a sickening lapse. Richard * * * ha. always been a constant reminder * fore swarms of satisfied and paying Watts, jr., my pet cinema critic. In- “ cf Elizabeth, and vice versa. You can- T~V INNER AT EIGHT” apprc.chcs. people cn pleasure bent. The best I forms me that in the talking pictures not knew without Eiiza- 17 a Mary knowing This is the film which, like "F.Rhi can do now is to admit that I am re- little slime is still regarded as neces- b".h A about one must necessa- play Flight." boasts most of M-G-M’s avail- morseful, and to withdraw my objec- sary to success, and that even Miss to two of the season's most inex- Marie Dressier, the comic abbess of the rily dwell upon the othtf. able stars. Jt is said to prove onee afu tion^ At loft: Helen with silver fc> is th. Bbzabeth i. coming back f- p that Joan Harlow is an actress— Hayes, who. together plicable masterpieces. I ask to be screen, and a welcome guest at the White to us. nut done by nn Fontanne or : i merely a blor.d West Coast cxecu- Phillip Merivale at right and Helen Menken, pardoned. House, bends in "Dinner at Eight" to a trick. I think that X r ''th Riston ewaom some lives have been this de- at the National Authors, actors and producers usually can pre- discovering by will appear tomorrow night assure the and ■ blushing disconsolate i but by an actress. Helen Mcn- grees. It took a long time after that bear with patient iortitude the faults; in "Mary of Scotland,” which is being pre- Mr. Watts that within i: n. who only a few v ,-eks ago was wrapper escapade in "Hell's Angels" to of a blundering reviewer. No matter what has been termed a 1 .m; whipped around the national's convince the producer that Miss Har- sented here by the American Theater Society, how grievous are the wrongs from twelvemonth the photographs t as “Seventh Heaven’s" low could do more tlran wear a the .g-- Diane. slim and, center, Charles as VIII which they they salve their hurt following lead of the drama and Laughton Henry suffer, the We cannot predict ahead of time garment with extreme nonchalance. In with the ointment of forbear- holy Indiana beckonings of Will H in the * feelings film which will open Wednesday at 1 v hat all of this will lead to. but we do Red Dust.' aided by writer Johnny ante; and seldom does a squawk issue Hays, will be deloused, and that he mav know that Elizabeth’s father, in film Mahin's crisp dialogue, while (cinemat- R-K-O Keith s. from their tolerant bps. Infrequently review the moving pictures without fear of further Xcrni. is some one whom you will un- icallv) she v.as veering away from the in my experience as a destructive critic infection. questionably want to sec. straight and the narrow she was also have I been turned upon and rent by * * * * Mr. Laughton, who in Hollywood a giving a remarkable exhibition of a artists driven to fury by my liarmlul 'T'HE Theater Guild last week put on short time ago was raging at having girl who is growing up in the wavs of Miss once its thoughtlessness. Barrymore, dormitorious cap and and to dress as a who a comedienne. In "Dinner at Barbara Next. gown up jungle man, and Eight." Stanwyck's deep-wounded by a compliment she re- piesented. a3 a matter this of duty and con- lay on Mr. Gary Cooper's dressing room lithsome young lady, who at ;h: Next Week s Films ere in as not rich summons Wh and When Local Theaters she “Ever in garded enough, science Moliere's -The School t fa. soft moment is craboin’ land i.ibablv AFTER completes My for muttering curses at the films * thunderbolts to her tongue whenever Husbands for more _________________________ Heart" for Warner Bros., in which! Realizing that it was or and delight at retiring to England, .ustlyi salary, is said to natch she speaks of mo: and Earl Carroll has of the classic the of she is playing with Otto Kruger and drama's feeblest ex<:- via re he can play at the Old Vic for picture out tile hands ot such of the ordered me never to darken his door 'THE talking picture version of Scotland.” with Helen 1 tions. the Guild old-timers NATIONAL—"Mary Hayes. Phillip Bellamy. Br.rbaia will turned Moiicre over 20 pounds a week ar.d do nothing bu' lusty as John Barrymore * Ralph Stanwyck Miss Mae W-.st. chafed some Arthur !j George S Kaufman-Edna Ferber Menvale and Helen Menken. Tomorrow night at 8:20 be starred in First National's again. by Guiterman and Lawrence Lanv- Shakespeare, appears as Henry himself. and plant herself firmly 0,1 the too. | produce success. "Dinner at Eight.” which intemperate remarks of mine, bought ncr and bade them him When does such a it is stage o'clock. tion of “Br adv ay and Back.” an origi- bring back Will, film, which suggests that England youth thing, a according to Walter Win- life ran on Broadway for more than a year, 1 r.al film story by Sheridan au- buggy wn:p and the stage. Give the lame oin is creeping tip on us as far as such time to cheer. Miss Harlow is very Gibney, its to comes to th» National Theater starting GAYETY—"Girls From Today at 2:15 chell, and planned, with aid. give thing, the were arc and no matter what think Happyland,” burlesque. thor of “The World Changes." Ann adapters instructed, 'productions concerned, and which young, you me for tat Also I have come with- next Sunday night as a roadshow at- and 8:15 Dvorak ai d Patricia been tit httle pep and jazz, with nugfern that director do of her. she is a verv She p.m. Ellis have 1 rhvm* suggests Korda may good sport. in the measure of the Shuberts’ noble traction. Mail orders are now being chosen to with seductive music and an .<■:• with Fairbanks, mow is. ofl si so unlike what she lias apnear Miss Stanwyck up-to-date j< more Douglas .ir. age. at 2. 7:20 and 10 as Miss filled for this cinematic feast that has LOEWS FOX—"Beauty for Sale,” 4:40, p.m.