Suggestion of a National The Eaglet Appears Again EARLE Theater Draws Attention On New York Theater List Γ 1 «sr. Idea Advanced That Miss Le Gallienne's Civic Eva Le Gallienne and Ethel Barrymore Head Repertory G^oup Might Serve as Base Company in "L'Aiglon"—A Stage Revival W in Which Is Attention. for Establishment Washington. Attracting -"""ÎïSli· *** D·** »·Λ°ίΪΪ: BY Ε. *t g. MELCHER. BY PERCY HAMMOND. THE Dramatic Editor: The long lines of customers LE OALLIENNE'S resurrection of justifies 44 "L'Aiglon" I at the box-office window of Washington's lone-func- itself if only by her own playing of that "child of night, I tioning legitimate theater, the fact that this city is misfortune and the Escorial." The Ogre's Brat, as it is ■*· filled with hordes of strangers from the smaller cities MISSsaid the Hapsburgs nicknamed him, appeals to her sym- who are theater-hungry and able to gratify that hunger, and pathetic nature, and she understands and pities him as he beats the further fact that Eva Le Oallienne has been forced to abandon his tiny wings against the bars of his Austrian bird cage. So, her Civic Repertory Theater in New York because of the with- with all her heart, her soul and her gifts of impersonation she drawal of needed financial support—all these factors seem to brings the Eaglet back to Broadway; there, with the assistance for the point to the rightnees of the time giving Washington of Miss Barrymore and others, to analyze and depict him for the professional theater a great impetus forward. benefit of the Times Square drama lovers. The result is not so nil impetus to DC inia. nuc 11 mlaa ιλ uuiuctiur s ιιυυμ, Having much a drama as a display of fine acting. I, who have suspected possible for Miss L« Gallienne to weathered the slings and arrows, of j Miss Le Gallienne to be an intelligent performer rather than a fortunes and come establish her Civic Repertory Theater several outrageous j brilliant actress, find my doubts dispelled at the Broadhurst more than not. In Washington. to the top frequently ; Theater by as thorough a feat of characterization as ever has "The dark and available would, of course, be the most valued : legitimate been my good luck to see. The play itself is stately blah of the theater Is here. That the audience her·. Inasmuch as she knows all i de luxe kind, tinted, melodious, poetical and sham. Its authors exists is evident That the there is to know about production, as everywhere. Miss Clemence Dane. H»ST well as about the acting of a play. ! are Rostand, Louis Napoleon Parker and MAT. CONCERT—19:»4-'35 audience is the right kind for the Conititutlen Hall. IKth St C »U. n w. she :s eminently suited to a task in ine iiinuuc ui uic umiciib no a Tcmtic, win uc vj αϊ- Next Wed. Aft.. Nut. M 1:40 r ■· Repertory group Miss Le Oalllenne has j eapecmi she has both and ι scene lienne and Miss more (who is sponsored Is evidenced by the fact that which prospered revival is, of course, the Eaglet'* Barry But if Broadway continues where the chan- beautiful and as Marie all the cheap seats at our plays go pioneered. with Matternlch wily knowing to And favor in her sight, if the to the and of like the proverbial hot cakes. (For- per- cellor (Charles Waldron) shows him Louise) heights plateaus BOSTON formances of "L'Aiglon" and more in a mirror the ghosts of his lunatic histrionism. All the rest of it is merly any opening night was a cinch— modern plays thrive under her tutelage, ancestors on his mother's side. Royal stagily false, with the possible excep- at S : 15 one could mount leisurely into and she has not the will to desert German and Spanish venom has been tion of Hugh Buckler's tuba perform- a gallery but one-third filled.) Stran- SYMPHONY for these Manhattan less-populated dormant in his blood for ages, Met- j ance of Coquelin's Flambeau and the gers from dramaless cities are fager shores, then there still must be some ternich tells him, and that he hasn't faith of its producers, the game co- nor their thousands ORCHESTRA to 'see things.' will one who could her. replace a chance to be anything but a flaccid partnership of Messrs. Selwyn and 8KMGE KOt*8EVITZKV Conductor be reduced in a hurry. After all, there are a "Oberon" Overture great many tool of European politics. Although Franklin. Program: (Weber); what is controllings Symphony. D Minor (Franck); "Pic- "Finally—and people these deys who sigh when they the of he is » * * * in he is spawn Bonaparte, tures at an Exhibition" (Moussorshy). important—there are Washington come to and find that not Washington ; more than that—a weakling Hapsburg AS SEEN through these binoculars, men and women of wealth who if ap- has it Tickets: 91. $! .»«. $2. Ι~\Λ0 *3 (no tax) only but one legitimate theater, i hold a be to with wrists too feeble to scepter. "Ladies' Money," presented at Mrs. Dorset's. Droop's. 1300 G. NA. 7 1.11 proached properly would glad but that the one is frequently none j In an outburst of Teutonic and Cor- Miss Barrymore's playhouse, is quite give the thousands necessary to guar- Many intelligent people, making their' which sican hysteria Miss Le Gallienne the best of the George Abbott series. "Th· Illimitable Contrait·,· antee the success of a venture new in L_ home Washington, feel that ! a the due to the low plunges bayonet into looking not excepting "Broadway." That. I is not self-supporting, are the ! they being slighted by theater. and cries my know, is a considerable admission costs and the high costs of glass "Help! Help, compliment, and wender why a city should present ! father!" But the dead does for Mr. Abbott is in the tactics artists and union labor. These men Napoleon tops such a ghostly theatric front. If there little of welcome the chance j not answer, leaving his King and strategy of the theater, and usu- and women should is one other in the capital world which ! Rome frustrate and delirious in the ally knows what to do and how to of being some day mentioned as the present* such meager theatric offer- j hands of an enemy as the second-act do it. His are often more real national theater. products pioneer! of a then we should like to know ings, ; curtain drops with showy deliberation. than exhibitions, since in them you C omt'ut η Hall, next Sun.. Nov I*. I I "For a national theater could con- ONEGINp.m. | where it Is. Miss Le Gallienne gives her L'Aiglon may And both character and action, Ticket»: .1.1 c M3e SI. 10 $ I e.1 f'i.'O inc. ta ζ eeivably be brought many steps Mr·. Dorsey's, Droop's. IliOO G. NA. 7 1.11 Just as local citizens rose up in the gloomy brow, the narrow chest, the imitated with a vigilant regard for nearer the intreachment of a by j wrath a few veers ago at the prospect the face and the melan- illusion. "Ladies' has all of worth-while cough, pallid Money" fundamentally group of here without a continuing symphony choly Hamlet introspection that are the sagacious Abbott touches, and it onsl ut'n Hall.Tue», aft..Nov. *'0. I:(n such as that of Miss Le Gallienne. of its own choosing, and in a jiffy had his heritage. He and she are "haughty, is violent, humorous, velvety and, in The Mri ropolita η Opera Quartet with and this is not "Finally, perhaps not only scared up an orchestra, but a sorrowful and charming"—a dreamy its way, studious. the least of the advantages that oc- pretty good orchestra at that—so temporizer who, when opportunity * * * * GRACE cur to me at the momeni, Washing- g MOORE should local citizens rise up in wrath summons him. hesitates and is lost. A DMIRERS of Mr. Edmonds' novel, ,ovelv Soprano of One Night of Loire" ton's many amateur actors and today and gather onto themselves Drama"; of the magnitude of "L'Aig- "Rome Haul," need not be fear- actresses could have while still young something permanent in the way of a lon" might be better were they to be ful that it is wronged in its conver- EDWARD a chance to JOHNSON and not disillusioned play theater. Without the it, public is the cinema, with its un- sion a book into a Frank bits and gain a foothold in a pre- presented by from play. loaing a recreational stimulus that limited resources of space and picture. Elser and Marc Connelly have done cgrioui but moet satisfying occupa- do RICHARD RONELLI Shakespeare first undertook way back If Hollywood were to "L'Aiglon." well by it in "The Farmer Takes a tion. " ι in 1594, and which has done more to Metternich's ball, for instance, would Wife remodeled It to flt the "Let's bring the Civic Repertory having both educate and relax large quantities be the awkward mess of ROSE Theater here!" DRAMA LOVER." : not super- smaller spaces of the stage without BAMPTQR of human than almost In a wonderful operatic program. beings any numeraries that it is at the Broad- maiming it in any way. In fact, the * * * * Seat»: *I.IO. M.H.V JSVÎ.'ÎO S'*. Τ Λ.IίΛ.ΗΟ other medium. hurst, but a credible party of cele- new drama at the Forty-sixth Street Bureau.