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io so THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1940 Ed Wynrs New Revue At Forrest 'Boys and Girls Together' Bows; Hepburn Coming Camera Angles 'Brigham Young' a Film That Defies Convention Mormon Leader Brought to Scre'en In Picture of Historic Interest By Mildred Martin Every now and then, Darryl F. Zanuck runs across a story he really wants to tell, material he is determined to turn into a picture. And when he does, movie-goers might just as well get ready to be jolted out of a comfortably smug frame of mind. Of course, like every producer who intends to go on producing, Zanuck makes a lot of more or less conventional flilms, spectacles and sugar plums, musicals, dramas, comedies and the like designed to bring profit to-the studio, provide work for the stars, entertainment for the public and a salable commodity for the exhibitor. Youngsters In Film Heyday Rooney, Oth ers Today's Favorites By Louella O.

Parsons RECORD ON RYE, A LA ED WYNN The comedian who has method in his madness makes a novel sandwich for in "Boys and Girls Together," his new revue playing this week at the Forrest. This Week ynn Talents IV' FRONTIERSMAN" tells the story of iYlPfl the Mormon migration from Illinois X.I KX I tt-lV to Salt Lake in 1846. Tyrone Power stars as the chief Mormon scout, George M. Cohan, George Kauf-Dean Jagger plays the title role and man and Noel Coward have long Linda Darnell plays opposite Power, been for tne variet of Brian Donlevy is the villain who at- tempts to usurp Young's power. Hen- i their contributions to the theatre, ry Hathaway directed from a screen- 1 They write plays, produce plays, FILM STAR RETURNING IN FIRST STAGE HIT Katharine Hepburn, who scored solidly in "The Philadelphia Story" here two seasons ago, comes to the Forrest Sept.

30 for a one-week encore. Lenore Loner gan, Stage Brat, Comes of Theatrical Family ED WYNN plays this week at the Forrest In his new revue, "Boys and Girls Together," of which he is star, director, coauthor and producer (a $100,000 investment). In it he will, among other things, impersonate a ballet master, hunt ducks from a stage blind, unravel two drunken acrobats; lecture his cast on deportment, love and life; juggle Indian clubs and lay a carpet for his "Cocktail Hour Girls, and Wynnsome dancers. Featured are the dancing DeMarcos (Renee and Tony), songstress Jane Pickens and comedian Dave Apollon, mandolinist. There are a score of other "principals," too.

Music Is by Sammy Fain, with lyrics by Jack Yellen and Irving Kahal; sets are by vvmiam Oden Waller. Albertina Rasch I ctooraH tho Hanrn anrt Pat Flick collaborated in the dialogue. Phila. Story' Returning i HE FHlLAUtWMlA B1UKI. Philip Barry's comedy starrtr.st Katharine Hepburn, plays a return engagement the week of Sept.

30 at the Forrest. It concerns an old Mm Line family who home invaded by a radical magazine writer nd woman photographer on the eve of the daughter's second marriage. Robert B. Sinclair directed, tutts by Robert Edmond Jones, and In th cast are Van Heflin, Joseph Cotten. Nicholas.

Joy, Viola Roache, Forrest Orr, Dan Tobin, Ignore Ionergsm, Frank Fenton. Gladys George Coming GLADYS GEORGE cornea to thm Locust St. on Oct. 21 in the farce. "Lady in Waiting.

Margery Sharp's drama of her novel. The Nutmeg It will have the York cast. Antoinette Perry directed for Brock Femberton, the producer. "TWELFTH NIGHT, starrin? Helen Hayes as Viola and Maurice Evans as Malvolio, is on the Theatre Guild list for Nov. 4 at the Forrest.

Sophie Stewart will portray Olivia and June Walker will enact Maria. Margaret Webster is directing r.nd Stewart Chaney designed the sets. Shuberts List Musical "NIGHT OF LOVE" is planned by the Shuberts for presentation at the Forrest this fall. With a score by Robert Stolz. it is a musical play based on "Tonight or Never," comedy produced by David Belasco.

Cast far are Adele Dixon, Marjorie Gains-worth, Frank Hornaday and Marguerite Namara, and a film start Is sought for the male lead. "THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE, William Saroyan's prtee comedy, is also on the Theatre Guild list for local presentation, as is "LADIES IN RETIREMENT, thriller starring Flora Rob.son. 'Once Upon a Time Opens at Hedgerow Hedgerow Theatr in Moylan. Pa-, tomorrow evening will present 141st production, "Once Upon a Time," by Lawrer.ce J. Dugan, PhiladephJan.

a fantasy abcut democracy, for the young in heart of all ages. It will be repeated on Tuesday and Saturday. David Met-calf has the Irr.d. and decor Is by Stephanie Klein. Wcdne-day brings Shaw "Major Barbara." a comedy-drama of munitions and the Salvation Army, with Audrey Ward end Harry Sheppard, and Shaw's perennial ccrr.edy.

plays Thursday, with Miriam Phillips, David Metralf. Catherine Rieser, Joseph Leberman, On Friday, Denman Thompson's "The Old Homesterd" will be given. her $15 that kept her going a littla longer until she got a good part. A prize inspiration for stage hopefuls is that zany pair of comics, Olsen and Johnson, who will on Monday night celebrate the beginning of the third year of their "Hellza pop-pin' musical on Broadway r- ki I i At rour iNignts in Advance i In their accustomed illogical way they celebrated the event four nights ahead of time But there 1 fl nipthnrf in tHi r.r Hit rf cm lng madneSn, for Mayor La Guard; was entertaining the council of Mayors here this week" and Olsen and Johnson slaged the birthday party prematurely in honor of the visiting 400 Hizzoners. Although they had been play: nil in vaudeville across country for years.

Olsen and Johnson tried time after time in vain to get their names up in lights on Broadway. And when they opened "Hellzapoppin" here on Sept. 22, 1938, it almost seemed as if they were doomed to failure again, for some of the critical reviews were rather apathetic about the whole berserk revue. But overnight it became a bit and has been playing to sold-out houses so much that Olsen and Johnson now are advertising it, and very likely rightly, as "Hellzapoppin never stoppin'. 'The Cradle Will Rock' Saturday night the New Theatr of Philadelphia, 311 N.

16th will present Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock." In the cast are Howard Cordery, Ted Klugman. Mac in mispronouncing the esoteric words that Dinah Lord picks up in her reading and hearing. What with reading, writing and arithmetic, there were singing and dancing lessons before the child was seven. At the age of five, she was appearing in educational shorts for Paramount. On the stage she made her debut in "Mother Lode." All concerned were for her in the child role of "The' Old Maid," but the director opined she was simply too young.

But she wasn't too young for Noel Coward in the picture "The Scoundrel." Considering her schooling, her parts on the stage and in pictures, and her adventures in radio, it is a wonder that Lenore is bouncingly buxom, rosily hardy and getting a vast deal of fun out of touring with Katharine Hepburn. Under his all-embracing banner have appeared players ranging from Ertlrley Temple to George Arliss, from the Dionne Quintuplets to Sonja Henie, from Spencer Tracy to Gypsy Rose Lee. Into films for a fling he has brought radio comedians and gossip columnists. And if no flagpole sitter has yet done his stuff for Zanuck, we're sure it's simply an oversight. Zanuck's Versatility Because of his love of fine horseflesh.

Zanuck made "Kentucky" and "Maryland." turning the color cameras upc.n his equina actors, giving them more glamor than the humans in the eaM. But we're not setting out to discuss either Zanuck's hobbies or the catholic -quality of his taste. What Interests us most is the Zanuck who flies in the face of big-money defies hints that it would be heller not to film a book like John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath, and maks a disturbing, shocking picture about the tragedy of the Okies. Now. in "Brigham Young," Zanuck has again struck out against the conventional.

Defying the screen tabu on material dealing primarily with any religious sect or belief, he had such faith in the power inherent in the history of Mormontem, that he engaged Louis Bromfleld to write the story of Joseph Smith, lounder of the United Order, of Brigham Ycung who became leader after Smith's murder and led 20.000 Mormons on that astounding trek from Kauvoo, to Great Salt Lake in Utah. A Pioneering Hegira Remarkable as are the sequences depicting the passage of that wagon train throush 1800 miles of wilderness a wagon train, incidentally, such as you have never encountered before, with fewing, weaving, shoe-making going and school being held as the wheels turn it is in the early scenes that Zanuck, Bromfleld and Director Henry Hathaway have deliberately set out to shock audiences. In a period when wc are inclined to regard our own history as beyond reproach, pin most evils upon foreign nations, it is disconcerting to come face to face with this distinctly ugly page from the past. The film shows, and reference books bear out, that Americans of only a 100 years ago were quite capable of religious persecution, that they burned and beat and shot a people whose faith did not coincide with their own, driving them from their homes, hunting them down like wolves. Religious Persecution When the picture shows a mob breaking into the jail to which Joseph Smith has been committed on a trumped up charge and shooting him down in cold blood, this is no dramatist's flight of fancy.

Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum. suffered cxactlv that fate in Carthage, 111., on June 27. 1844. Zanuck's interest in the history of courageous people a people known only to the average film-goer through ribald references to the number of wives Mormons are sup-pored to have though the practice of polygamy ended some 50 years has led to the production of a picture that is very close to great- Ks has uncovered striking new material for the screen. He has brought Dean Jaggcr, a genuinely fine actor, oack to films to give a towering and impressive performance as Brigham Young.

But above all, he has brought us up short, forced us to take a long, level look, whether we like it or not and not caring how uncomfortable it makes us. at the intolerance, bigotry and cruelty practiced in this country less than a century ago. Maternity and Movies Last week brought another striking film. Pare Lorentz's "The Fight far Life." Shcrply limited in the type of audience to which it will appeal certainly it does not belong on the juvenile matinee list it is a semi-ciocumentary dealing poignantly, powerfully and compassionately with obstetrics, the magnificent work of the Chicago Maternity Centre amohg the pregnant women of the slums, and the quest of a young interne for knowledge that will assist him in saving life. It is, of course, insulting to Pare Lorentz and his picture, even to mention that there is nothing of the salacious or peep-show quality about -The Fight for Of Documentary Interest For this literally vital study in maternity, in the dangers of childbirth, has been handled with the dignity and the relentless honesty one would expect from the man who has already given us those two magnificent documentary pictures, "The Plough That Broke the Plains" and "The River." This time Lorentz has chosen to deal, not with the battle against soil erosion or floods, but with the fight against human erosion.

Just as his material is infinitely greater, so "The Fight for Life" is a greater, more memorable picture than either of Lorentz's previous productions. Don Wilson on Diet But It's in Reverse Don Wilson has gone on Hollywood's strangest diet. Harry Sherman figures that if the announcer-acior is funny at 240 pounds he'll be a lot funnier at 275 or more. build flesh and hopes to add at least 25 pounds before he brcins playing hi? -ole cf 'Slim' in "The HOLLYWOOD. Sept.

21. The vacillating, changeable public votes for Mickey Rooney to a man and why? Principally because he has such talent, such vitality, such youthful exuberance. He reminds many of the grown-up boys of their own youth and he makes every mother's heart respond to hi innate little boy ways. This very Mickey Rooney, let me tell you. is one of Hollywood's most potent am bassadors for good will.

He Is now on a personal appearance tour, bringing them into the theatres by the thousands. The moment he and Judy Garland appear on the screen they have everyone in the theatre with them. When Judy and he have their kid battles, with her litti Jealousies and his naive interest in little June Preisser, it's the eternal triangle. But it's told in "Strike Up the Band" in a way that takes every grown-up back to the days of high school intrigue. We all get a little touch of nostalgia.

Louis B. Mayer, who keeps a personal eye on all these youngsters on the lot. talked with me at length the other day when I went to the studio to have lunch with him. Many Nice Youngsters "We have never had so many talented young people on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot as we have today, and such a lof of really nice youngsters," he told me. "We are trying to keep them young, too, by selecting stories that have comedy, music and an appeal to every age." "I feel," said L.

"that these young people do an enormous amount of good. They bring young people into the theatres; they make friends for the industry. When Mickey was in Washington at the President's Ball he put Washington in his pocket. Ann Rutherford was so well liked when she went to the Cotton Ball that the South wanted to keep her there." "What about my little June Preisser?" I asked him. "June's fan mail tripled when she went on the personal appearance tour with you.

Her speeches at the women's clubs and her ability to put over an act all helped increase her popularity." John Carroll a Comer "Who do you consider among your actors are destined to be the stars of tomorrow?" I asked the man who has such box-office names on his lot as Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Robert Taylor, Greta Garbo. Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Laraine Day and Greer Garson. "John Carroll," he said without a moment's hesitation. "Isn't that sudden?" I asked. "No," he replied.

"We have been watching John and grooming him. With each picture he has become increasingly valuable. He has that spark, that sort of careless charm that impresses the women in the audience, and. above all, he is a real he-man, George Kaufman wants him for his play on Broadway this fall and I may let him go for the experience." He's a 'Discovery "How did you find John?" I asked. "Well, I saw him in a little picture one night at my house and sent my scouts out to sign him.

I knew that he was star material." John, who was born Julian La Faye and who has all the fire and verve of hi French ancestors, was at Mcnogram for a long time. Probably some of our readers remember him tall, dark and handsome (apologies to Miss West) with a Southern accent. If L. B. says John Carroll is a star of tomorrow, you can bet your last nickel on the boy's future.

Robert Taylor started at M-G-M as an urv known. Spencer Tracy was practically through in pictures when L. B. started him on a new movie life. Clark Gable was a nonentity.

Neither had Laraine Day ever been heard of. One thing about Louis B. Mayer. His stars stay at M-G-M for years, and he never stops building them into important personalities. PARE LORENTZ Maker of "The Fight Life," at the Studio.

for Miss Skinner Cominq Cornelia Otis Skinner, actress and author, will give a program of her mwieiu sum SM-iuies on weanesuay. vvl'. lL iiir; xiCLiii nuuiiuiiuju ui tne mnncmann iviecucai uouege. 15th st. above Rrce.

Proceeds are for "decorating the horpital and sponsored by the Hahnemann Hospital Auxiliary. The Lunts and ellzapoppin' Examples for Stage Hopefuls Films Showing ALDINE "HAUNTED HONEYMOON," only major film to be made in England since the outbreak of the war, stars Robert Montgomery as an English lord whose hobby is crime detection, and Constance Cummings as an author of detective thrillers. On their honeymoon in their countryside cottage they find a corpse, and of course sclve the murder. Arthur B. Woods directed.

FOX "CITY FOR CONQUEST" is cosmopolitan New York, with James Cagney. newsboy who wins wealth with his fists; Arthur Kennedy, his musical brother; Ann Sheridan, dancer; Frank Craven, symbol of the city, and others, including Frank McHugh, Donald Crisp, Elia Kazan and George Tobias. Anatole Litvak- directed. EARLE STAGE SHOWS return next Friday, in conjunction with the film "Dr. Kildare Goes Home." starring Lew Ayres.

Lou Schrader will lead the Earle orchestra, and George Jesscl will emcee the show that will present Rochelle Hudson, Isabel Jewell, Jean Parker. Steffi Duna and others. "BOOM TOWN" is now playing its fourth week, with Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr and Frank Morgan. KARLTON "PRIVATE AFFAIRS" is a comedy about Boston high society, with Nancy Kelly jilt-ins her wealthy fiance for Robert Cummings, against her snooty grandfather's (Montagu Love) wishes, but with the approval of her fatlier (Roland Young). Hugh Herbert is also in the cast.

Albert Rogell directed. ARCADIA "LUCKY PARTNERS" are Ginger Rogers and Ron- aid Colman. when Ronald, an artist, takes Ginger on a pre-honeymoon trin before Gineer marriaae to Jack Carson. It ends in a funny court room scene. Lewis Milestone directed.

CAPITOL "BOYS OF THE CITY" finds Bobby Jordan, Leo Gor-cey and other "toughies" on a country vacation, where they solve a murder and save Inna Gest. Joe Lewis directed. TRANS LUX NEWSREELS share the hour-long program with SHORT SUBJECTS on television, aviation and gliding. The cartoon is "Porky's Baseball Broadcast." Future Films WEDNESDAY CAPITOL "River's End." melodrama, with Dennis Morgan and Elizabeth Earl. FRIDAY STANLEY "The Westerner," Texas in the '80s, with Gary Coper, Walter Brennan.

Fred Stone, Doris Davenport, Lilian Bond. EARLE "Dr. Kildare Goes Homes," hospital drama, with Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Lionel Barrymore, John Shelton. Stage shows return, with George Jessel, Rochelle Hudson, Jean Parker, Steffi Duna. Lya Lys, Lou Schrader and orchestra.

lEITH'S "Foreign Correspondent," war reporter in Europe, with Joel McCrea and Laraine Day. PALACE "The Sea Hawk," adventure film, with Errol Flynn, Bren-da Marshall, Flora Robson. SATURDAY NEWS "Naughty Marietta," return of the Victor Herbert operetta, with Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. UNDATED ALDINE "Hired Wife," comedy-romance, with Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Virginia Bruce, Robert Benehley, John Carroll. BOYD "Spring Parade," musical comedy-romance, with Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings and Mischa Auer.

FOX "Knute Rockne. Ail-American." story of the football coach, with Pat O'Brien, Page, Ronald Reagan and football players. STUDIO "The Baker's Wife," Marcel Pagnol's French comedy, starring Raimu. play by Louis Bromfleld. STANLEY "THE HOWARDS OF VIRGINIA." playing a second week, is a story of the Revolutionary War and its effect on a Virginia family Cary Grant, Martha Scott and their three children.

Frank Lloyd directed and produced the film from Elizabeth Page's book, "The Tree of Liberty." STANTON "WYOMING," playing a second week, stars Wallace Beery as a Western robber, quick on the trigger, who reforms and saves the ranchers, including Ann Rutherford and Bobs Watson, children of his slain pal, from being ruined by cattle rustlers. Richard Thorpe directed. STUDIO "THE FIGHT FOR LIFE" was filmed by Pare Lorentz from Paul de Kruif's book, using the Chicago Maternity Centre as locale for its story of the medical battle to reduce maternal and infant mortality. Alexander Smallens conducts a symphony orchestra in Louis Gruen-berg's score. vttth's "Kn TTArir pnn r-rnvf- rm-V Oncnliml Onccsir mxtinir her husband.

James Stewart, stick to comedy and forget Genevieve To-bin and her suggestions for serious drama. William S. Keighley directed. NEWS "THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL," from Baroness Orczy's novel, stars Leslie Howard as the head of a group of Englishmen who help French aristocrats escape the French Revolution. Merle Oberon is the feminine star.

Sunday Cinemas ALDINE "Haunted Honeymoon," 2.40, 4.30, 6.20, 8.10, 10. ARCADIA "Lucky Partners," 2.10, 4.10. 6.10, 8.10, 10.10. BOYD "Brigham Young Frontiersman," 3.05, 5.20, 7.30, 10. CAPITOL "Boys of the City," 2.30, 5.05, 7.40, 10.10.

EARLE "Boom Town," 2.40, 5, 7.30, 9.55. FOX "City for Conquest," 2.30, 4.25, 6.15, 8.10. 10. KARLTON 'Private Affairs," 2.40, 4.30, 6.20, 8.10, 10. KEITH'S "No Time for 2.40.

4.30. 6.20. 8.10. 10. NEWS "The Scarlet Pimpernel," 2.32.

4.29 6.26. 8.23. 10.20. PALACE "He Stayed for Breakfast." 2.45. 4.40, 6.25, 8.10.

10. STANLEY "The Howards of Virginia." 2.40. 5.05, 7.30. 10. STANTON 'Wyoming," 2.40, 4.30, 6.20.

8.15. 10.05. TRANS-LUX Newsreels and shorts. VICTORIA "Pastor Hall," 2.35, 4.25, 6.15, 8.10, 10. GINGER ROGERS One of the "Lucky Partners," in the Arcadia comedy.

stage 'plays and, frequently, act in their own creations. That this trinity should be enlarged to a quartet is the conviction of the observers who have laughed at and with Ed Wynn for the last 25 years in the theatre. For Wynn may well challenge for the mythical cup annually awarded to the theatrical notable who serves the stage in the most capacities. Wynn, last seen on a Philadelphia stage in "Hooray for What!" almost three years ago, returns to the Forrest tomorrow with his newest revue. "Boys and Girls To- gether," which derives its title from a line in "ine sidewalks of New York." With Pat C.

Flick he has written the dialogue and he is staging the entire show. Wynn will be the star of "Boys and Girls Together" and it is his own money-some $100,000 of it that is being spent in the production. PRODUCER BY NECESSITY Ed Wynn became a producer and author chiefly through dire necessity. Because of his activities in behalf of his fellow-players during the actors' strike in 1919 a strike which resulted in the formation of the Actors' Equity Association as an actor Wynn was outlawed by the defeated producers. In this extremity Wynn solved the stalemate by turning producer himself.

More! To his first show under his own management. "Ed Wynn's Carnival," he contributed book, lyrics and music, money and the stars, a five-timed effort which rewarded him with a run of one hundred weeks in New York and on tour. SHOWS HE'S STARRED IN The ukase of the producers outlawing Wynn soon softened but Wynn has rarely appeared since except under his own managerial colors. He starred in "Manhattan Mary" for George White, in "Simple Simon" for Florenz Ziegfeld, and in "Hooray for What!" for the Shu Perfect Fool" and "The Laugh Parade" were all of his own coinage, and all enjoyed exceptional box-office popularity. Professionals and laymen alike protest that Mr.

Wynn appears too infrequently "on our platforms. 'Boys and Girls Together" is but his third revue in the last decade. But in the intervals, between shows "The Per fect Fool" had other fish to frv1 thro. vpsrs he was a weekly commotion on the Th. -pm in that span" was named an honorary! Fire Chief in some 120 cities oi the democracy.

HONORARY MEMBERSHIPS inaeea wynn nonorary memoer- ships might well be the envy of an academist from the Sorbonne, or a Nobel Prize winner in science. Ex-; amples? Well, he's an honorary life member of the Catholic Actors' Guild, the Actors' Guild, the Masonic Home of Philadelphia, the Masonic Orphanage for Girls in Pennsylvania, the United States Tank Corps, the Theatrical Protective Union, the National Association of Power Engineers and the Automotive Service Square Club of New York. He's entitled to sit down to the class reunions of Yale '24. honorary admiral of the flagship Cleveland, honorary president of the Board of Health of Illinois, honorary "permanent mayor" of Passaic. N.

J. In 1933 he organized his own broadcasting company, and a few semesters thereafter branched out a producer of serious plays. Both last named ventures curdled and Wynn is now content to confine his activities to the musical stage. After the First Lady went to see "The Philadelphia Story," Katharine Hepburn's stage success due at the Forrest. Sept.

30. she wrote in her "My Day." column: "It is a most entertaining play, but I cannot help feeling that even a sophisticated, disagreeable child could not be as odious as Dinah." This must mean that Eleanor Roosevelt doubts the existence of the precocious modern miss as Philip Barry etches his Dinah Lord among her elders of the Main Line. But it also means that the White House columnist was unwittingly paying high tribute to the acting talent of little Lenore Lonergan, who nightly gathers her quota of laughs with the aplomb of a veteran. 3 LESTER LOXERGAXS A Lonergan today is a veteran by heritage. The name first came into prominence three generations back n'lirn factor nnpr'ja aftor raster- the arte vanrfPvil'A nnrf st.nrfc.

rose to be leading man with the' great Mod.ieska. Associated for a director for William Harris, Lonergan staged such successes as "East Is West," Drinkwater's "Abraham Lincoln" and "The Road to Rome." Thus the grandsire set a redoubtable pace for the rest of the Lonergan clan to follow. His son, likewise a Lester, at first despaired and became a lawyer instead of an actor, but the Lonergan blood tcld and he too is of the theatre. At the moment, his offspring, bearing the same name as his grandfather, is passing through the adolescent phase of wishing he were at West Point, though despite his mere three years seniority ver his sister. Lenore, he has appeared in 15 productions, including "Bachelor Born," "Wednesday's Child," "Goodbye Again" and "The Good Earth." Il'ST MISPRONOUNCE WORDS Their mother, now enjoying tne successes of her children, further dowered them with hereditary talent, for she was Juliet Nova of the nnei-aH ctacr Trarellinff 1 i Lenore.

she modest ly tells how the child of a theatrical family is schooled and trained. It all sounds iven io pimces. So meticulously correct for in- stance is Lenorej; -English spse that the only difficulty she had wi sech ith tlic Part handed to her by Barry lay LESLIE HOWARD Plays title role in "The Scarlet Pimpernel," News revival. vxrA. i By Mark Barron NEW YORK, Sept, 21.

If, as is sure to happen four or five times todaj', an aspiring young actor or actress arrives on Broadway to seek that elusive career in the theatre and finds that merely a pretty face and graceful figure are not enough then a glance at the current names in lights should bs reassuring. With dozens of new shows going into the producers' or flees are overflowing with a steady parade of ingenues, leading men, character women 8nd just stage- OU UN tXLllel trui el. linrj LJt VI nic: too-few roles Unless they are featured players they find it almost impossible to get past the reception clerk in the front office. Even if they succeed in passing that seeming impossibility, the new ones, the players who have yet to give a Broadway performance in at least a second or third role, encounter the usual answer from a manager: "I'm sorry, but I can't consider you for a part until I've seen you work on the stage. How do you get a start on a stage? I don't know.

It's usually pure blind luck, I think." Some Notable Examples But the youngsters can look at some of the current stars on Broadway and realize that they, too, once faced the same impasse and kept on going on to glory. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, now starring in Robert E. Sherwood's hit drama, "There Shall Be No Night," found the only way to Gland and Aaron Spiegel. The show start was the hard way. Lunt, be- was directed by Lynn Kelsey.

ginning in a Boston stock company. Later the New Theatre plans sev-hd to slerp in his shoes because the eral repeat performances of "Medi-simple boarding house in which he cine," Living Newspaper produced lived didn't have a blanket long last season. Further plans lnclud enough to cover all of him. And an original revue in November, Tn-Mlss Fontanne was ready to give side America." by Mel Toikin and up and return to her native Eng- Reuben Davis, authors of We BI land when a kindly friend loaned to Differ.".