“TOBACCO ROAD” TO MAKE ITS DEBUT HERE TONIGHT -* A --9 Items Here and There Original Jeeter Lester at the National Play Opens Annual Spring Song On Things Theatric Tonight at Sung by Noted Critic Reflections on Random Garbo, Margo, The National Dr. Phelp’s Seasonal Entertainment Calen- Dr. Kindler, “Ghosts,” Rudy Vallee, dar Is Posted P Henry Hull Is Star by opular Broadway Irene Sadel and Arthur Godfrey. Colur mist. Here in “Tobacco E. de S. Melcher, By Road.” By Percy Hi immond. morning reflections on things theatric: NEW YORK, April 5. ing. It is the least false of the eourt It is April and the National Theater is still going strong, and that KIRKLAND’S widely discussed william lyon house dramas. is an unusual state of affairs, believe it or not. JACK** drama, “Tobacco Road," adapted immersed "Pride and Prejudice”—As presented The New York critic’s prize has stole the thunder right from PHELPS, being in SUNDAY from a novel by Ersklne Caldwell, by Mr. Max Gordon and acted Miss meditations to by Under the very nose of the Pulitzer prize. appertaining opens tonight at the National Theater un- Ardlenne Allen and others, even those we a then to Doctorthe Pulitzer Prize, leaves If you think have had poor season here, go up Broadway of us who at 8:30 o'clock, instead of following the sung his annual so it will pooh-pooh Miss Jane Aus- nuu ovv i»iv titnjui imu itivt v Spring song, usual Monday-opening policy, and tin’s musty classic, find a horse-and- Regina.” “Call It a Day,” “Idiot's have to be rendered by me. The ab- about Mr. Thalberg’s "Romeo and the week will three mati- charm and “Pride during play sence of the doctor’s voice lifted in buggy in it. Delight” and Prejudice.” Juliet.” nees, on Wednesday, Friday and Sat- benediction will cause "Three Men on a Horae”—A stalwart Every season has its “Swing Your many playgoers Burgess Meredith's letters from urday. distress, since thousands of them de- character farce about the humors of Lady.” Last year race course friends in Hollywood Indicate that Henry Hull, the original New York pend upon his words for guidance to betting, staged with in- It was “Gather Ye Margaret Sullavan and Henry Fonda will be starred here In the the better dramas. Since it is his tegrity by Mr. George Abbott, the Rosebuds.” star, play, are on the verge of remarrying. to most competent and conscientious of is defi- which has had the longest Broadway habit to praise truth and ignore Margo * * * * the run of in the last six I shall that in stagers. Miss Edith Van Cleve is as effective any production imposture, adopt policy nitely /'''REAT interest is shown in in and so is Mr. Sam being years. Now in its third year in New my attempt at substitution, and sus- it, Levene, as my on the screen as idea of the following events at the Na- York, “Tobacco Road’’ has played pend complaint in favor of indorse- a nice, rough and tempera- she is on the mental tional: Walter Hampden’s "Cyrano"; more than 1,000 performances. ment. The following inventory of gambler. stage. A rare Nazimova in “Ghosts" and tne musical attendable entertainments is therefore “First Lady”—Miss Jane Cowl, as- combination. Life as it Is found today among the show "On Your Toes,” which is said as sunny as Doctor Phelps’ would be, sisted by Mr. George Kaufman and Sidney Howard “poor white trash" families of the to be heading this way. and shorter. Miss Katherine Garbo Georgia back country is the subject considerably Dayton, look over the says What’s become of that local project be much of the Kirkland drama. Hull's char- "Idiot's which Mr. Al- Washington scene and decide that it wouldn't for Delight"—In which planned to build a theater is ludicrous. hold good on the stage. acterization of Jeeter Lester, the head fred Lunt cavorts as an ingratiating They up to ridicule, use of drama groups? therefore, what is said a We'd like her to of one of these Georgia cracker” fam- vaudevilllan. who enlivens with his to be feud be- There’s a stack of mail orders down tween won sextet of Nebraska ballerinas Mr. two of the Capitols’ most digni- try. anyway. ilies, for him the unanimous vote at the National already for "The Great honorable and fied stateswomen. They expose these The great argu- of the New York critics as the best Robert Sherwood's Ziegfeld" even before anybody has sug- ladies as at ment going the performance of the season there. theatrical discussion of war. The scene jealous felines, snarling K,thmrine Cornell, gested where and when tickets can be each other rounds these days is a European powder keg before and cattishly while molding the bought. Even before his outstanding success the theater's first lady? after it blows up. Miss Lynn Fon- policies of what has been called the Is who is in town is in "Tobacco Road.” Hull has been Every drama critic plan- tanne revels in the of greatest nation on the face of the Cornell leads by half a considered one of the finest impersonation Katharine this country’s earth. Miss ning a Hollywood visit Spring. an exotic Russian adventuress, and Cowl, of course, is gener- But Helen Hayes seems to actors, ever since he was first starred length. Wonder if any motion picture com- ous in her of Mrs. Le Gallienne and the supporting cast is out of the The- suggestion Long- be creeping up. Eva film Keith on Broadway, almost a score of years pany will have the nerve to ater Guild's drawer. worth, giving her all the Roosevelt Ethel Barrymore weren't even men- ago. in "The Man Who Came Back.” top Winters’ "Impassioned Pygmies.” fascinations. It was my good luck to tioned. Since then he has scored in such plays "Dead End"—Upon a spectacular Hardie Meakin, Keith’s manager, has drift into a performance of "First It has always been our contention as one of the a trick new device on the door which “39 East,” “The Cat and the background representing Kindler has a distinct Lady" the other night, when Miss that Dr. Hans face of Canary,” "In Love With Love,” “Lulu more sordid sidewalks of New York, makes it go wham! in the any Ruth Abbott was for screen personality and one of these Belle,” "Grand Hotel,” "Michael and Mr. Kingsley draws an exciting pic- pinch-hitting newcomer that may not be entirely Miss who in to a screen test. Lily Cahill, created the part days should give It’s whammed at least two Mary,” “Springtime for Henry," and ture and preaches a bitter sermon. A desirable. of Miss Cowl’s opponent. Having a Arts Club scouts report that Hugo a number of others. friendly partnership of scenery, melo- reviewers so far. sympathy for the understudies, I am Inden would make the grade, too. drama, lecture and effective acting, it Patsy Kelly is going to be featured The cast supporting Hull in “To- glad to report that Miss Abbott, in her Among local ladies the following Hal is more than usually commendable. all by herself at last. Hurray. bacco Road’ is headed by Mary Ser- imitation of Washington’s most influ- have been mentioned: Anne Ives (for hi- Roach will do the featuring. voss, popular on both the New York "Boy Meets Girl”—A prudently ential editress, was knowing and that Queen Elizabeth), Maude Howell Smitn and "Sweet Aloes” lasted only three and London stages, who was the lead- larious satire of Hollywood the she was more subtly real in her satire (for Eileen Fowler, Virginia wise fun and anything), weeks on Broadway, which is three ing woman in "Street Scene” and cinema, making much than the brilliantly artificial Miss Rebecca Tarwater (Washing- True, weeks short of what this department “Counsellor at Law.” Other well- hurting no feelings.- For the average Cahill. "First is a Frances Lady" shrewd bur- ton's Margaret Sullavan), two weeks less than Don thought and known players in the cast are Fiske drama lover it is a safer show to go lesque. and the chances are that Brunt, Janet Coon. Ruth Perrott, you Craig had hoped for. The latter lost O'Hara, celebrated star of many Irish to than "Idiot’s Delight,” "Dead End" will like it. Gusack and Mrs. John Otto Adele a small wager on it and paid up to the plays, and Leon Ames, known to mo- or "Ethan Frome.” Johnston. hilt, pronto. tion picture audiences as Leon Way- "Ethan Frome”—One of the best of * * * * * * * * cofl. the dirges as made by Owen Davis of “Tobacco ’T'UESDAX night s preview of “Things and his son from Miss Edith Whar- 'T'ONIGHT'S opening A The cast also includes Pauline Road” at the National is practi- to Come” at the Wardman Park Drake. Hallene Hill. Halla Stoddard, ton's despairing novel. In it Miss Paul- will have Min- ine Miss Ruth Gordon and Mr. cally a sellout already. Theater Ambassadors, Donald Barry, Priscilla Knowles, How- Lord, Steve Cochran is still looking for a isters, lesser diplomats, critics from ard Banks and Dick Lee. Raymond Massey portray bleak New ACADEMY °f theater beyond the District line. Any- Wilmington, Richmond and Baltimore, England misery in a way that should and and the E. Lawrence Phillips' Theatre Beautiful body got one? ; Senators Representatives make you happily disconsolate. Matinee. 2:00 P.M have been calling up to find i Lou Browns from Baltimore in the Brown Crawford "SHOW THEM NO MERCY." People Directing "Victoria Regina”—Wherein Miss .With ROCHELLE HUDSON.