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DAILY NEWS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 193g 45 Belasco Theatre Reverts To Estate Next Month; Morris SUNDAY SHOW Extra "Dead End" Showing For Stage Relief WINTERSEr LEAVING "Winter-set," Maxwell Anderson's poetic drama, will close in three more weeks, playing its last performance on Feb. 29. It will begin a tour in Boston. NEW THEATRE PLAYS Michael Blankfort's "The which is about a meat strike, and Paul Peters "The Little Green Bundle" will be presented by the New Theatre League on March 1. Occupy Offices STAGE PLAYS he remains in its second year, the most exciting of the dramas, and, I think, the most important." Burnt Mtntl; News, Un.

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A3cfST. Wagner's Ring Is Fine Start At Met Opera By ANTON WALKER. Warning the foregathered Republicans at the last Lincoln Day Dinner that abandonment of the gold standard would result in "a series of vi cious cycles of cause and ef fect," Herbert Hoover added that "a mass of gold dashing hither and yon from one nation to another has acted like a cannon loose Gertrude Kappel the deck of the world in a storm." Which might well have been the inspiration for Richard Wagner to write that vicious cycle of greed and hate called the Ring, had he not beat Herbert to it by some sixty years (and fancy this turning out to be a music review!) Anyway, the cannon Were loose on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House yesterday afternoon, where "Das Rheingold," first of the vicious Cycle, broke like a melodic storm on the ears of a huge and enthralled audience. It was a fine start for the current Cycle of the Ring, with a scenic production of extraordinary beauty and a cast which would be a credit to any opera house in the world. Too many singers to list here by name, beyond mentioning" that Jnedrich Schorr was the Wotan and Gertrude Kappel the Fricka the god and goddess around whom revolves the legend of how mythological Germany went on the gold standard.

Also that Rene Maison, first heard Monday in "Die Meister-singer," was the Loge, a trifle large for the mercurial spirit of fire, but singing with far more freedom and acting with greater ease than at his debut. The real heroes of the performance, however, were Artur Bodan-zky and his orchestra. The work being given as a one-act opera, they played exactly two hours and a quarter without a single let-up! SCOUTS MAY GET OLD GUARD BOATS Washington, D. Feb. 6 (rP), The House Merchant Marine Committee reported favorably today a bill by Representative Andrew Mass.) authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to dispose of obsolete Coast Guard equipment to the Sea Scout Service of the Boy Scouts of America, without charge except for transportation and delivery.

HOT' 15 FEET DOWN Annapolis, ML, Feb. 6 (U.R). Two professional deep sea divers, working beneath fifteen feet of icy water topped by twelve inches of ice on Spa Creek, complained of the heat today while fellow workers pumping them air from the surface shivered in bitter cold. LEGION BALL FEB. 21 Flatland Post No.

391, American Legion, will hold its seventeenth annual ball at the Flatland Memorial Building, Feb. 21. Gest May The Belasco Theatre, most re cently the property of Mrs. Elmer Rice, will revert on March 5 to the Belasco estate or, to be a little more technically legal about it, to the. Stuyvesant Theatre of which the late David Belasco was ole stockholder.

Mrs. Reine Belasco Gest, the producer's daughter and wife of Morris Gest, will, with the other beneficiaries of the estate, benefit thereby. "Dead is paying iandsome rental for the house. It is further understood that Morris Gest, who resumed his theatrical career with "Lady Precious Stream," intends soon to move into the Governor's" offices. He would, cf course, be a tenant, and his tenancy would have to be approved by the Stuyvesant executors Ben F.

Koeder and the uity iJanic Farmers Loan Trust Co. "Sweet Aloes," with Evelyn Laye, will open in New York during the week of March 2 O. E. Evelyn Laye Morris Gest Wee's production of "The Devil of Pei-Ling" will open at the Adelphi Theatre on Feb. 20 Beginning March 1 there will be three matinees a week of "Pride and Prejudice," and Monday night performances will be eliminated.

George S. Steele, architect, has designed the sets for next week's Fresh Fields" "When a Man Loves," new Yiddish drama, will open Feb. 12 at the Brooklyn Lyric Theatre Dwight Wiman will select more ballet girls and boys for "On Your Toes" this afternoon at the 48th St. Theatre. Ruth Draper will present a new sketch, "Three Breakfasts," on her program this afternoon at the Booth Theatre "Dear Old Darling" is George M.

Cohan's silver jubilee play the fiftieth of his own authorship. In addition he has collaborated on thirty-one ethers. U. S. MISSIONARY KIDNAPED IN CHINA Knoll Mission of Ossining, N.

Father Clarence Joseph Burns, American missionary of the Mary partment announced today. The was kidnaped yesterday by Man-chukuoan bandits, the State De-ark yesterday for perjury. The in-Consul General at Mukden reported six bandits captured Burns, Thirty soldiers were sent in pursuit. ELEANOR POWELL ORDERED TO REST Eleanor Powell, dancing star of "At Home Abroad," who collapsed two weeks ago, will not return to Broadway for at least another month. Her mother, who is caring for her at her home in Crestwood, said yesterday that no friends had been allowed to see her.

Dr. R. Ernest Lopez has ordered a complete rest. PASSION PLAY "Veronica's Veil," the Union City, N. Passion Play, will be- fin its twenty-second season on eb.

16, when the first of four dress rehearsals will be given for children. The regular opening will take place March 1. FRENCH COMEDY The French Players will give the original version of "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" tomorrow afternoon and evening and Sunday afternoon at the Heckscher Theatre. VJ STAGE PLAYS EJouir () MONDAY MliUl' Daily News yoarraimsnr N.Y.AmerKOn CIRL SHOW IN THE WO PAUL WHITEMAN I MORRIS GEST prewntd Lady precious stream By S. I.

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'Eternal Road' Gets Money To Continue Meyer W. Weisgal, producer of the financially ejnbarrassed "The Eternal Road," yesterday declared that most of the needed $200,000 has been obtained and that the Biblical spectacle will definitely be presented. Whether it will be done this Snrinsr or next September has not been decided. It depends upon the time it will require to finish rebuilding the Manhattan Opera House, and npon Director Max Reinhardt's Hollywood engagements. The present production has been technically abandoned so far as the cast is concerned.

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