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SUNDAY JUNE 8. 1930 57 YOU CANT BE TOO CONTROVERSIAL PhQip Barry's Play Stirs Up Correspondence. ONE SMASH HIT IN ELEVEN TRIES, VARIETY SCORE THE GOLDEN DOZEN Curret 11ra-tio im rw York thralrra that Jiaie rreortLrl. longest rum. Dramatic.

antea. rrtZ uf- JULIUS' WILLIAM FOLLOWING DAD William Tannen, who is making quite a stir in his own right in the "Garrick Gaieties," was known before the show I t2Ln AREFUL OF YOUR L'AMOUR ABROAD In "Ada Beats the Drum" Ada Hubbard brings her adored daughter, Leila, to France 1 9 imbibe continental "culture." Leila is much more interested in making a conquest of Bow-Tit, drummer in an American jazz band at the Biarritz Casino. We find them hainng their first "intimate" conversation. Bow-Tie (a bit eagerly) T11 me do you know anything about 1'amour? Leila About -what? Bow-Tie You know la moor. Leila (blushing slightly, because the is a prim young lady) Oh, you mean Baw-Tie Yes.

Do you know anything about it? Leila You mean 1'amour in the ordinary sense? Bow-Tie No, in every sense. I Bitan as it is over here. Leila I know it means love. Bow-Tie Xo, it means more. Well, in America (then deciding to be intellectually frank at all costs) in America they call it eex.

Leila (Rising from her seal betide him on the sofa and taking a few steps away, very coldly) I think I had better join mother. Bow-Tie (Rising quickly and tligk tly bewildered) Why? Leila Well, I don't think it's very nice for us to sit here and talk about sex. We on't know each other well enough. Bow-Tie (Most sincerely) tut if we talked about it we soon would! Besides, its perfectly ail Tight. You can't talk about sex in America, but you can talk about 1'amour in Europe.

That's the big difference between Continentals and Americans how they treat 1'amour. (A bit sarcastically) Well, you're an American, aren't you? Bow-Tie (Just a bit grimly) Kot about 1'amour! Leila (After looking him orcr thoughtfully for a' moment) You know. I can't make you out! I don't think you're any older than I am and I'm only nineteen. Do you mean to tell me you go around Laving having love affairs? Bow-Tie Well, no not exactly. But I do kind of study it.

A lot ef 1'amour goes on down at the Casino-. I know a lot about it. Leila (Suddenly) I don't believe it I don't believe you ever bad a love affair at all! Bow-Tie (Leaning toward her anxiously Well, I'd like to have one with you! Leila (After regarding him for moment or so, not unplcased) I think you're kind of crazy. Bow-Tie (Witk a little grin) Yes I am about you! SHIPPED EAST Paul Bissinger's revue, "Hi There," which opened in San Francisco, has been shipped to New York. Bissinger intends to present it here early in the fall.

3 Little Girls Are "Ifs a Wise Child" "Strictly "Young Sinners" and Mary" "The First Mrs. "Topaze" Musical. "Sons o' Guns" "Fifty Million Frenchmen" "Strike I the Band" "Simple Simon" "Flying Hieh" "Three Little Girls" 357 315 224 224 197 133 223 221 166 127 114 64 TWO, OLDEST PLAYS FINALLY AGREE TO CALL IT A SEASON Among the shows that closed last night were the two oldest attractions in New York "Bird in Hand" and the Carroll Sketch Book." Each, in its sphere, was an inexpensive production that made its sponsor huge profits and "Sketch Book," slated to tour next fall, may still bring Car-roil some stray dollars. "Bird in Hand" played its 500th New York performance last night. Back in 1928 Lee Shubert, on his annual vacation, saw the John Drinkwater comedy in London, and arranged for the author and the original cast to come to New Y'ork.

The play opened at the Booth April 4, 1929 and no amount of moving could affect its popularity. From the Booth it traipsed to the Morosco, from the Morosco to the Earl Carroll Lee Shubert Ethel Barrymore, thence to the Masque, from there to the Forrest and finally to the 49th st. Last Christmas the original cast of the play was sent on the road, and a second company took over the New York production. "Sketch Book," too. had its wanderings.

Opening at the Earl Carroll last July 1, it had been designed for a summer run, and no more. September came, and the show, instead of closing, moved to the 44th st. theatre. When a movie was booked into that playhouse, it went into Chanin's 46th st. theatre.

It might be running yet, but Carroll needed chorus girls and minor principals for his new "Vanities." Movie of Tounflf while you wait IwBf Thirer If tiring done. Urn. I her niotie nuge in Tit ea todn; 4 Little Sisters The tatial provided one smash hit in every eleven productions, according to Yarietj annual review of the box-oftice figures. The percentage is figured on the 176 shows that opened between Aug. 5, 1929, and May 31, 1930.

It fell to William A. Brady's "Nowadays" to open the season and provide the first fast flop, and then came David Belasco's "It's a Wise Child" with the first smash hit. Those 176 productions topped the season by one, and, says Variety, there would have been some forty more if that unusual number had. not closed precipitately after out-of-town try-outs. Counting the forty that didn't arrive at all, the percentage of hits not smash hits, but hits is one in five.

The weekly states there have been sixteen smash hits, seven of which were musical and it forgets all about "Sketch Book." Of the nine legitimate attractions rated as smashes, only two, "Berkeley Square" and "The Green Pastures." go beyond the field of comedy. The others are and were "Strit-tlv Dishonorable." "It's a Wise Child," "June Moon." "Young Sinners." "Michael and Mary," "The First Mrs. Eraser" and "Topaze." John olii-B'6 ADA BEATS riiE DRUM ith MARY BOUND; ISet Plae of the Month." Calhoi.e JOHN I.IIIUKN Theatre. W. St.

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a and then took special courses in Eng-1 i composition, but, naturally enough, the stage was William Tannen always his aim. He got his first chance in the drama during the past season when he went to Washington to become a member of the National Theatre players, under the direction of Clifford Brook. While there, he acted in two plays. Otis Skinner's old success. "The Honor of the Family," and Bert Lytells more recent vehicle, "Erotners.

The Washington season closed just before reheHrsais for the "Gaieties" started, and Tannen came back to New Y'ork. He knew Thelma Tipson, one of the prin-! cipals of the revue. She reeded a partner for one of her sorgs, and told the powers that be that she knew just the man. After Tannen had shown what he could i th powers that be agreed with her. They use him as a principal in si numbers.

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A r-at 2 A-3 fa KATHERINE ALEXANDER, in private life the wife of William cipal roles in a play that has driven the subscribers of the Theatre Guild into a fit of letter-writing. The play is "Hotel Universe." A controversial affair, it drew divided opinions- from the critics, and has drawn divided opinions from the Guild's subscribers. Some 6.000 letters have been received, the majority of them complimenting the Guild for undertaking the production. PLAYERS HAVE A WEEK OF HAPPY REMINISCENCES (Continued from preceding page) World's bard. Nor out of step with the moderns for all he is happiest in his memories.

And now comes "Milestones" and the younger set. Not including Edwin Milton Royle. who read the Adams ballade. Edwin Milton and Helena Fetter Royle were playing "Friends" when most of this cast were either unborn or. having attended to the miracle of birth, were still unheard off The younger set when you are considering Beulah Bor.cii (born Bondy in Chicago fewer years ago than any one suspects) and Dorothy Stickney, Selena Eoyle.

Edwin Milton's handsome and gifted young daughter, who way has seemed to miss the breaks, and Tom Powers and Catherine Willard, the gracious Florence Vroom, and the pretty Audrey Ridgwell, who is waiting ever so patiently to be discovered. Ernest Cossart has been acting since well, since years before his upstanding young daughter, Valerie (who is at the moment playing nicely in "Lost was born. And this was quite a few years before the Theatre Guild made him a member of its acting company. And Warburton Gamble, who was a young English actor then, was in the first American cast of "Milestones," playing the- same Sam Sibley he played last week, probabJy in the same clothes. Herbert Ranson has been playing juveniles since juveniles were invented in this generation, and Jay Fassett has been a singer of parts, several parts, for lo, these many vaudeville and Dutch Treat days.

Some say the Players should not revive the modern "classics." Lit them stick to the ancients and their art. Let them recover the foundation stones of the modern stage and leave to others the decorative frills and cornices of a later tiitne. (But I shall be content so long as they choose the representative plays of any period. I had a grand time at last week's celebration. AT LOEWS Art Landry and his orchestra are headliners at Loew's State theatre this week.

Other numbers on the stage bill include Ruby Norton and the Kitchen Jules Bledsoe and Oscar- Stang's orchestra are at Loew's Metropoli- I tan. MARGARET AND RUTH ADAMS find not a little coincidence in their present jobs in "Three Little Girls." Two of the three feminine principals of that show are sisters Natalie and Betina Hall. The Adams sisters have been assigned as the Halls' understudies, and, like Natalie and Bettina, they come from New England and were recently with the American Opera company..