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Four COURIER-POST, CAMDEN, N. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1937 Return, to American Stage MELODY BBomr CMHDHHS WALTER WINCHELI; The Playbill On Broadway I Leaning on Letty, Starring Charlotte Greenwood, Opens Monday at Chestnut; 'Tobacco Road' at Erlanger TIRECT from her London triumphs, Charlotte -Greenwood, the" versa-r-7 tile American comedienne and Philadelphia's gift to the legitimate -etage, arrives at the Chestnut Street Opera House Monday night for a limited engagement in "Leaning on Letty," a comedy based on the "Post Road" by Wilbur Daniel Steele and Norma Mitchell, As a gesture of appreciation to- friends who have planned to attend her welcome home, premiere, Miss Greenwood promises extra entertainment in an epilogue of song hits from her Drury Lane productions. "Leaning on Letty" is a story of a tourist home on the Boston Post road over which the angular Letty Madison presides as hostess, renting rooms to all comers at $2 per night, and which is the scene of diverting didoes. The play will take Miss Greenwood on an extended tour of the East this season. In it a i Sunday Movies CAMDEN AmiTORIVM Contnr Bnntt in 'Topnr' Continuous from 2.30-BROADWAY "Two Who Drj" A Virn Gold" Continuous from 1.30.

ilBfcKTY "She Had to Eat" "Talk of th Continuous from LKIC Jack Oakl In "Toast of New Yrk" 2.30. 7.30. S.43. PARKSIDK "Sh Had to Eat" A in tu Army Now" Continuous from 2.00. FRtNCKS.S CotiKtanr Bennett In "Tontxer" Continuous from 2.00, SAVAR Youn In "lov Undfr Kire" Ontinuoua from 2.00.

STANDARD Shirlfy TniiU In "Wee Willie Winkle" Continuous from 2.0") STANLEY Eleanor Powell In "Broadway Melody of 1U3S" and Vaudeville. Screen 1.50. 7.25. 10.15. Stare .1.

B.30. 0.2.-.. STAR "I F-romise to Pay" A "Midnight Taxi" Continuous from 4.. VICTORIA ark Oakie In "Super Sleuth" Conttniious from 3.00. WALT WHITMAN Jack Oakia In "Super Sleuth" Continuous from 3.

43 SCBl'RBAN APOLLO James Carney in "Footllsht Vnrsdp" Continuous from 2.00. CLKMENTON Gary Grant in "Topper" Continuous from 2. On. MT. EPHKAIM Freddie Bartholemew In "Captains Courageous" Continuous from 2.

on. Man In Blue'" A "Two Who Dared" Continuous from 4. "OA ROXY Jean Harlow in "Saratoga" 2 of. i RIN.NE.MKDE Paul Muni In "Scar-face Continuous from 1.00. Charlotte Greenwood, American comedienne, returns to the local stage Monday night in "Leaning on Letty" at the Chestnut Street Opera House.

Charlotte Greenwood Thriller Proves Too Exciting for Films 'Leaning on Letty', Opening in Phila. Soon, Will Have Long Tour, As Hollywood Dare Not Use It 'Love Under Fire' Mixes Up Loretta Young With Warfare in Spain Wartime Spain is still the reckless land of ardent love! Bombers roar and big guns thunder, but who's afraid of romance? Not Loretta Young nor Don Ameche, who hurdle the Spanish barbed-wire barricades and trip headlong into adventure in "Love Under Fire," which is current at the Savar. Miss Young, gayer and lovelier than ever, and Don Ameche. find romance to the tune of whining shrapnel, and the mad music of Borrah Minevitch and his gang. Directed in swift-paced' fashion by George Marshall, the cast also features Frances Drake, Walter Cat-lett, the goggle-eyed, blustering comedian John Carradine, new subtle screen menace: Slg Rumann, and Harold Huber.

Fun and furore reign as the Spanish conflict brings together a Scotland Yard detective, a fugitive beauty who believes, erroneously, that she is a thief, an entertainment troupe and their smart-alecky manager, and the men engaged in bloody war. Forced by trickery into the belief that she is a hunted thief. Miss Young seeks obscurity In Spain, only to meet a Scotland Yard detective, played by Don Ameche, who is on a busman's holiday and is seeking excitement. Don arrests his susceptible suspect, but their trip back to England and justice is interrupted by the appearance of the pretty owner of some fabulous Jewels which are being sought by military officials. The fate of the gems has an immediate and telling effect upon the fates of a multitude of innocent bystanders, and the adventurous suspense and excitement work up to a high climax when a British vessel is stopped at sea by a Spanish gunboat.

Works, of WPA Art Project Portray History and Literature Two murals, six feet by 10. will be presented to the Clara S. Bur rough Junior High School and the Camden City Board of Education by Geoffrey Nornan, special representa tive of the WPA federal art project in New Jersey, and Paul Keller, assistant state supervisor of the Federal Art Project, at 2 p. next Wednesday. The exercises will be held before an assembly of students and faculty members at the school.

Nornan and Keller will be introduced -by Mrs. Esther Hepler Inglesby, local supervisor of the WPA federal art project. The murals, which were designed and executed by Mrs. Inglesby and her two WPA art project assistants, Russell England and Jerome Brown, typify literature and history. Patterned on an' original design, the murals depict scenes and characters from books and historical events with which school children are familiar, interwoven in topical form.

The mural section of the federal art project is sponsored by the Cam den Board of Education. Six other murals have been completed by the WPA workers. The Davis school, H. B. Wilson kindergarten and the Sharp school have received two murals each.

At present Mrs. Inglesby an.d England are working on three murals to be hung in the library at Wilson High School. One. 17 feet by 4V4 feet, depicts wisdom and understanding of culture. The other two, 4 feet by 12 in size, will represent industry and commerce, and trade.

Designs used carry out the theme suggested by the schools for the murals are the-original work of the WPA, project workers. RACING FILM TO OPEN IN PARK, MERCHANTVILLE The nower of sunerstitutlon to domfnate it's victim's every act is revealed in "You Can't Buy Luck," a forthcoming story of the race track with Onslow Stevens and Helen Mack in the leading roles. It opens at the Park, Merchantville, Monday. in nts roi of race-horse owner, Stevens' charities are many and widespread, and are motivated solely by the supertitious belief that they will bring no good luck to his stable. He is unable to rid himself of these ideas even when he falls in love, and the girl remonstrates with him about his superficial slant on philanthropy.

Not until he becomes involved in a murder mystery, and his life is placed in Jeopardy, does he change his views and realize that charity should be practiced solely for Its own sake. The supporting cast Includes Vin ton Haworth. Maxine Jennings, Hedda Hopper, Paul Gullfoyle, Murray Alper, Dudley Clements, Frank M. Thomas. Barbara Pepper, Richard Lane and Edgar Norton.

IU 0 TOGuTMURALS IS, Sip FEME Taylor and Powell Starred, Judy Garland and Sophie Tucker Steal Show Br IDA HERMANN Three months in advance 'of the new; year is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Broadway Melody of 1938. The Stanley Theatre, featuring the film, Is naturally advertising Robert Tay lor and Powell as its stars, Perhaps this is correct as far as box office appeal is concerned. But after witnessing the picture, you will agree, as did most of the audience. that the real stars are Judy Garland and Sophie Tucker. "Melody of 1938" establishes Miss Garland as a full-fledged star.

She has 'one song number addressed to a photograph of Clark Gable which is something to write home about. "Everybody Sing," in which the en tire company joins in, is another hit. noth she and Miss Tucker are rele gated to second leads, but whenever theyv do appear, they make the remainder of the cast stand in the shadows. Miss Tucker, who was first seen and heard years ago in the old Keith Theatre in Philadel phia when vaudeville was in its heydey, gives every one of the younger stars a run for their re- spective honors. Her "Sims of These Days' is.

one of the highlights of the program. She also sings "Your Broadway and My Broadway," ded icated to such stars as Marilyn Miller, Nora Sayes and Lillian Rus who brightened the Broadway or yesterday. Among the other stellar supporting stars is Willie Howard, former star of all George White stage shows who portrays a waiter, In which he has a bit with the sneezing expert Rob ert wiidheck. Another luminary Is George Mur phy, dancing partner of Miss Pow ell, who proves again that a fellow need not concentrate all his ability in nis xeet. one particularly effective routine he has with Miss Powell shows they both dancing until they go plop into a fountain, clothes to boot.

Taylor gives an all-around good performance as the theatrical producer who gives Miss Powell her chance. All the speed, grace and charm for which she is noted is again demonstrated. Incidentally, she-and Taylor make a convincing romantic couple. Buddy Ebsen is responsible for the entertaining dance routines, while BobjBenchley adds a humorous bit in his own inimitable manner. 'AS GOOD AS MARRIED' IS FEATURED AT LITTLE Eddie Buzzell, director of "As Good as Married," which comes to the Little, Haddonfield, Monday, handed Esther Ralston, a member of the cast a very hearty laugh while the picture was in production at Uni versal City.

Miss Ralston was supposed to fall from a stairway landing into the waiting arms of John Boles. Buzzell was most solicitous. He asked her if she wanted a double for the scene. And Miss Ralston pro ceeded to burst out laughing, Then she informed him that she got her start in motion pictures doubling for stars. Once she even hung by her knees from the wing of an airplane, 3000 feet above ground.

Certainly she could fall a distance of four feet, with someone waiting to catch her; and that someone John Boles. Buszell agreed, and the scene was shot. 'LOVE FROM STRANGER' AT CRESCENT, MONDAY A new and strange type of killer is revealed in "Love From a Stranger," starring Ann Harding with Basil Rathbone at the Crescent, W. col-llngswood, Monday. Drugs, drink or the green-eyed monster of Jealousy are generally pictured as the stimulants that Inspire movie villains to their black deeds.

But the murderer of this screen version or trie late Frank Vesper's sensational stage success of the same name shuns all these for music. The criminal in this film chooses women for his victims, gains their confidence and worldly goods, marries them and then causes them to vanish a familiar enough type in the annals of criminology. Landru the French Bluebeard, who disposed of more than a score of gullible women in this fashion, worked precisely in that way. NEW HIGHLAND SHOWS 'THE SINGING MARINE' Larry Adier, the mouth organ champion, who completed his role In "The Singing Marine" Just in time to catch a boat for an English engagement, never uses an harmonica more than three days. Usually they are "blown up" in a day.

It's an exceptional one which lasts for three daya. He sends all his used harmonicas back to the factory. "I'm hard on them," Larry says. "Ordinarily harmonica playing doesn't wear them out but I have Ao blow. so hard to get special ef fects that they wear out almost The Singing which tars Dick Powell, will come to the New Highland, Audubon, Monday.

JACK HALEY "She Had to Eat" Parks! de Mayor and his cabinet don't get I tap of work done, and are nervous as cats In fear she won't show Igf the case of a male star, business suspends only during the afternoon- Fifth Avenue is never without parade! of John Laws, all of then more lovely that Rob't. Taylor, and all costumed, apparently by Schla parellL All the top rankers of the big banks -club up over, the luncheon," table at the Bankers' Club and plot against the proletariat Chiefly their huddle results in a drive to whlpaawS a peasant who has Just invested $250; in some n.r Bo.we" mttU tntoa with tooustaea to haul his. amateurs, andi jny one of them who takes less than! 5, clicking on the broadcast is tagged as a failure. All first nights at the theatre are! Bros- te "omethlng by Shaw. (Whereas some of the recent! ones were so drab the police had to' protect the autograph-snatchers from5 the celebs!) A1! shows are angeled by Jocks Whitney, who keeps his better rac- ing nags in the dressing room and is heart-broken in case the show hap-1 pens to turn a profit Chinatown is always in the grip? Of a tone xi-a i.

-v. pucaea oauies in streets day and night Pum dens as wide open as Nedick's oraiure luieerW Nothing gives a Leftist greater pleasure than to hop over to Union 1 Square and invite a copper to put a seam in his conk. (The Reds get lumps from night-sticks almost as I th ot do, and they hurt Just as much.) I Groven Whalen has nothing to dot all day but Journey from one flower' uop io anotner to change the blossom in his lapel. (Mr. Whalen has more Jobs than Mussolini, and he works at them, too.) i Managing editors of the big dailies are in a constant fret that they will do something to displease their raw- est cubs.

They fear if they go to press the cub will come in and speak I sharply for them for failure to hold 1 the Page 1 banner for a deb's be- trothal. (If a cub's name is known to the M. E. after two years he is practically a Richard Hardinr Davis). Nobody is welcome in the night clubs unless he belongs to a certified family, rates big In Dun Brad-street and can negotiate a tidy rhumba and spout double-talk.

(A clean collar and a ten-dollar bill will I get you the same attention given a I Social Registerite and you might-! even marry into the owner's fam-, ily). New Yorkers shudder at the danger of being exposed to the fresh air and would go nuts beyond thei roar of the subway. (Which is why so many of them are hoarding up! for country shacks). i The literary giants amuse them-selves by spurning movie offers in! the most insulting language they can command, with the Hollywood1 execs down on their knees begging them to get on the payroll. (The most Insulting crack on record from; one or me giants was, "Yes, Morton," instead of "Yes, Mr.

That head-waiters are haurhtv aristocrats who stand at one end of a velvet rope to block off the peasantry from the tables. (The head- waiter is now. camping out on the sidewalk and the velvet rope is now) a lasso flung at passersby). 'BETWEEN IDEim' T. 18 Will Open at Chestnut Street Theatre With Evelyn Laye, Jack Buchanan Double achievement has distinguished the career of Evelyn Laye, prima donna of ShuDerts' pro duction of Howard Diets-Arthur Schwarts' musical the Devil" with Jack Buchanan, Miss Laye and Adele Dixon, as the stars, opening In Philadelphia 'for two weeks prior to Broadway, on October 13 at the Chestnut street House.

Since her American debut several years ago she has won the title of the "American Pattl." Beautiful and versatile, she has starred in London In both legitimate plays and musical, comedy. Miss Laye has what is admittedly' the finest voice in musical comedy; nigh, mellow, beautiful and even incredibly beautiful in the hit numbers of "Between the DeviL" Miss Laye had her early schooling at Folkestone College, and on going on the stage vaulted from the obscurity of a London Gaiety girl to the principal role In the Enelish version of the melodrama "Mr. Wu." She was the first Gaiety soubrette in "The Shop Girl," and also understudy to Ruby Miller and leading woman with Eobert Courtneidge. She acted in "Mary" and scored her greatest hits in "The Merry Widow revival and "Pompadour." She also played in "Fun of the Fayre" and Her features are classical, her hair blonde and her manner regal. "Between the Devil" gives her the opportunity to show her abilities as a serious emotional enne and a prima donna.

Miss Laye also sings in several exquisite sextets and duos which Arthur Schwarts has It was Hassard Short who, 'selected Miss Laye for this new musical and who came from England especially to direct the company. TWO THEATRES OFFER 1 TOPPER COMEDY FILM When Hedda Hopper. Claire Wind sor and Betty Blythe reported to the all-star cast of the feature comedyf "Topper," coming to the Cleroenton and Princess screens tomorrow. Director Norman McLeod provided a welcome by presenting floral bou queis to tne trio of screen favorites of Jong standing. It was their first apk arance at the Hal Roach studios; Hedda.

Hopper, Claire Windsor and Betty Blythe are prime favorites With a large following and furnish support to the co-stars, Constance Bennett and Cary Grant, with Roland, Young as Topper" and Billie Burke and Alan Mowbray in featured IN HI I DC OUT-OF-TOWNER'S PICTURE OF NEW YORK (Thanks to the movies and the mags) Everybody la Hell's Kitchen wears a roughneck sweater and brass knuckles and all are so defiant of; the Jaw i the cope (who travel in pairs) have to get written permission from them to ankle their beats: (Actually, Hell's Kitchen la so peaceful a couple of drama critics live there!) The gab at "21 la so fast and so immortal that if Swift, Wilde and the rest of the famous wlte blew in they would be tongue tied with shame and a sense of inferiority. (The best thing yet said at "21" was "Bring check," which got cheers.) Walter WtaekeU No fewer than sixty coppers come rushing to Investigate every gangster pinch and a siege to a hideaway is always announced by the screaming sirens of the police prowl car. No girl ever quits New York for any reason least of all a sensible one. 1 It is much nobler to starve here, runs the legend, than to go back to Michigan as the wife of the No. 1 Banker and the boss of the social coffee klatches.

Cornelius Vanderbilt, having rebelled against the 400 to cruise the globe in a trailer, comes back to Fifth to taunt his pa and ma and the neighbors for being such social old crudds. Broadway hasn't changed in spirit since 1840. Everybody is comradely and neighborly, and it is no uncom mon sigbt around Bowling Green or a bunday afternoon to see J. r. Morgan and some longshoremen splitting a growler of buttermilk.

Commissioner valentine never knows how to go about snatching a felon, but paces his cubby hole in Headquarters, eating his fingernails until some epigrammatic private dick blows in and helpfully supplies the address, phone and visiting hours of the guy under suspicion. Columnists are lofty fellows who get down to the office early so they can hurry up and destroy letters from contribs. They are affronted by these pests. (Dear Contribs That is the wickedest picture of all, and the falsest. Please dismiss it.) Gamblers are lovable rogues, tail ored better than the working gigo los, always doing a lot for charity in a quiet, unpretentious way, and very tolerant toward the cops, poor devils, who really have a job to do.

(You should see these pikers vanish at sight of Johnny Broderlck.) The greatest success that can come to an entertainer is to "stop the show cold" at a night club. (Stopping the show is merely par. If one night-club stew sets down his goblet long enough to applaud, that's a legitimate show-stop.) Bill Corum goes around In rags hungry and homeless as a result of playing his own hoss predictions. (Still, not so far-fetched.) Whenever a Hollywood femme star blows into town, all schools, factories and even some of the hospitals are shut down for the duration of her visit to do her homage. The KIPLING SCREEN GENIUS SHOWN BY CURRENT HIT Had Rudyard Kipling lived another year he would have seen himself acclaimed as the films' finest scenarist.

For in plot construction, color of background and clarity and depth of characterization he has no rival, declares Director Victor Fleming, who directed "Captains Courageous," which comes to the Mt. Ephraim Theatre tomorrow. Though George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells, Britain's other two literary titans, both came to recognize the power of the screen inter-, pretlng their works to added millions, Kipling to his death remained unin terested, Fleming pointed out.

Kipling himself was not a film fan. Yet before he died motion picture companies were planning production of two of his stones, and tnree more have since been prepared for the screen. RITZ THEATRE FEATURES 'THE MAN IN BLUE FILM' Nan Grey, playing the feminine lead in "The Man in Blue," at the Rita Theatre, Oaklyn tomorrow, is an enthusiastic short wave radio fan and aviation zealot. She listens closely to messages coming from large transport planes to control stations. The reason; One of her best friends-' is a transport plane pilot In "The Man in Blue" Nan Cray falls In love with Robert Wilcox.

Her belief in him helps him to fight his way back and win a recognized place in the 4 4C 1 ANNA STEN "Two Who Dared'. Broadway 4 the comedienne makes her first bid for fame in a non-singing role, reserving her songs and comic dances for a special tidbit after the final curtain has fallen. She appeared in the play all last season in Chicago and the Middle West, meeting with great success. Aside from Letty Madison, the other inhabitant of aihe Post road home lit "Leaning on Letty" are a futile brother-in-law, who ia a radio addict and a sort of mental cousin of Erwin in "Three Men on a -a sister who constantly hopes for the worst In" any situation, and a whang-doodling clergyman. Into this establishment there- comes barging one dark and stormy night, a smoothtongued doctor; a trained nurse with Lady Macbeth complex; a sick lady given to groans and an evil-looking chauffeur.

By the first curtain a new born infant has been added to the entourage. This is only the start of a plot that becomes more eccentric than "Seven Keys to i Baldpate," a plot Involving village scandal, melo-dra-matic excitement, kidnaping, banditry, police sirens and various other complications that have audiences alternately clutching the arms of their chairs or rolling in the aisles in hilarity. Miss Greenwood will be supported by the same cast that played for 20 record weeks at the Selwyn Theatre, Chicago. The players include Isabel Withers. Russell Fillmore.

Ptomaine Callender, Frances Victory, Carol Arden. Boyd Irwin, Wendy Atkin, Charles Martin, George Junior, Lucia Seger and others. The production staged by Russell Fillmore. The regular matinees will be given on Thursday and Saturday, "IT THEN Taylor Holmes comes to YV the Erlanger theatre, Philadelphia, Monday night in "Tobacco Road" it will be the final appearance of the noted star as Jeeter Lester inhat city. This is announced as the farewell tour of Jack Kirkland's history-making play which has piled up a record of 1600 performances on Broadway, a record equaled by only one other play, "Abie's Irish Rose." The engagement of "Tobacco Road" at the Erlanger is limited to two weeks as the company is on a coast-to-coast tour.

A brisk box office sale indicates the same interest in "Tobacco Road" that has been shown during its other engagements in Philadelphia. In fact, "Tobacco Road" is a play that excites interest and discussion. No stage play of the last twenty years has met with the success that has been won by Jack Kirkland's dramatization of Ersklne Caldwell's novel of the share-croppers of Georgia. Not only has it broken long-run records on Broadway but it has been presented in 133 cities throughout the country and has won editorial praise across. the continent while, at the same time it has been Indorsed by literary celebrities, college professors and prominent clergymen as an authentic picture of con- Uliiuua caioiiiijj auivug uic jicuuiicos tenant farmers.

Taylor Holmes, who has found Jeeer Lester the favorite stage role of his distinguished career, continues in the part this season while the majority of the players will, be fa-. miliar to audiences, particularly Florence Gerald as Ada, Pitt Herbert as Dude, Lillian Ardell as the grandmother, William Bishop as Lov and Dick Lee. Harry Townes and Walter AyersV Audiences will greet a new Ellie May in Kay Thorne, Philadelphia actress, as well as a new Sister Bessie in Lonnie Nace and a new Pearl in Sondra Johnson. mONIGHT, the Hedgerow Theatre JL in Moylan-Rose Valley will offer another performance of its recent, and highly successful, American premiere, "Bystander." by Robert Bren-nan. The newest addition to the famous group's large and varied repertory was first presented at the Abbey Theatre in Ireland, and director Jasper Deeter'i novel treatment of the piece has attracted much attention from local drama lovers, who are viewing the production for the first time in this country.

Next week's program at the theatre will "open on Monday night with a of "Too True to Be Good." the birthday play from the group's recent Shaw Festival, and Tuesday night has been reserved for another showing of the new production, "Bystander." Shaw's hilarious satire, "You Never Can Tell," will be offered on and Shakespeare will be represented on Thursday night with a performance of "Twelfth Night." "Androcles and vThe Lion," another Shaw comedy, will be presented on Friday, and two showings of Jean Ferguson Black's "Penny Wise" will complete the week's festivities on Saturday. The matinee has been reserved by the Philadelphia Advertising Women's Club, but the evening performance will be open to the public as usual. r. WITH the combined talents of Hassard Short, as director. How-' ard Diets and Arthur Schwartz as authors, and the Messrs.

Shubert as producers, "Between the Devil," the new musical comedy scheduled to Come to the Chestnut St. Opera House for two weeks, on October 18, bids fair to offer a gala experience in the Theatre. The Messrs. Short, Schwarts and Diets have been responsible for some of the. greatest musical hits In the Theatre In the past half dozen years.

"Between the Devil" will bring Jack Buchanan and Evelyn Laye back to the American musical comedy stage as stars of this gay farce, and will serve to Introduce Miss Adele Dixon who is one of London's pets at the moment. Others In the large cast will be the comedian, Leo G. Carroll, Charles Waiters, VUma Ebaen and Francis Fierlot As mentioned above; Hassard Short will 'stage and direct the entire production, guaranteeing a wealth of beauty for visitor to the Chestnut St. Opera WALTER HAMPDEN, the great American actor, will return to the Philadelphia stage on October 4 at the Erlanger, in Jerome K. Jerome's famous play, "The Passing of the Third Floor The play scheduled for one week only.

Mr. Hampden Is a favorite among Philadelphia playgoers, his Shakespearean roles and that of Cyrano de Bersrerac being especially famous. "The Passing of the Third Floor rck" was originally smitten to be-- ia New York by David and so unsuitable for the screen because of censors' requirements. Since the Greenwood audiences are more likely to appreciate the drama and the humor of the story and not be swayed into an attempt to duplicate the "perfect crime" of the story, the comedienne has nothing to fear and her hilarious impersonation of the New England spinster who outwits the villains, may continue to delight audiences. "Leaning on Letty" has to do with the kidnaping of a baby in the neighborhood of the Boston Post road, and the decision of the kidnapers to hide, under the guise of tourists, in the residence of lanky Letty Madison who is, on the surface the most guileless and trusting of middle-aged females? She proves to be their undoing.

"Leaning on Letty" gives to Miss Greenwood her first opportunity tjo disport herself in other than a straight musical comedy or revue oi the east coast. She has. been acclaimed in straight drama in the west and last season was recognized by the middle west as a comedy star to be reckoned with. NThls season's tour will bo preliminary to Broadway and a new play. Miss Greenwood is touring under the banners of her composer-producer, Martin Broones, with whom she was associated in a number of English musicals at Drury Lane in London before returning to the United States.

BIG BURLESQUE ARRAY OPENS AT SHUBERT Wllner's Shubert Theatre opened its new season yesterday with a gala burlesque show featuring cele- bratea stars from stage, screen and radio. Heading the cast in the ini-t i a 1 production are Frank X. Silk "Dagmar," Arthur and Morton Havel. G. i a Sothern, Magda Branch, Le i French imporiaiiuu novelties from the Paris Ex- im position Jimmy Georgia Bother Louis, Floyd Halicy, Thelma Temple, Jack Lyons! 50 Follies girls, Jimmy Jones and his Shubert Swingopators, and other novelties in Chuck Gregory's awing-time Buresque Revue.

Continuous matinees are from noon to 5 p. m. dally. There ia one eve-f nlng performance at 8.30. AH seats are reserved Max R.

Wilner Is managing director. BICYCLK -BIDDEN 42 YEARS I Kansas City. Mo. (UP). Despite his age, James D.

Young, 72. who sharpens saws, still rides iii ancient safety model bicycle 10 tor 12 miles a day making his deliveries. Since ZumtiXta he has ridden It many thousands of miles. ty Belasco. with David Warfield in the title role, but instead opened the London season at the St.

James Theatre on September 1, 1908. Its dramatic appeal Insured. Im mediate success and It played for long runs on 'both the London and New York stages. Mr. Johnston Forbes-Robertson, the English actor, created the original title role.

SAMUEL F. NIXON NIRDLINGER announced today some of the attractions booked to follow "Walter Hampden in the "Passing of the Third Floor Back" at the Erlanger. -irrrrtr hm la A loT Yokel's tlfn- duction of "Beauty" based on a. featured story in Pictorial Review, dramatized by Mildred Cram and Rita Weiman. This play presented by Mr.

Yokel, who was responsible for "Three Men on a Horse," opened simultaneously in New York and Chicago on same night with Billie Burke and Fay Bainter alternating in the leading role. Another attraction listed Is Norman Bel Geddes' new revue, "Sing Out The News." Thanksgiving week the Mask A Wig Club of the University of Pennsylvania will present its fiftieth production. Later. "Tonight at. Noel Coward's group of nine plays, "played 3 in a group -will be given.

An all-star cast has beenv assembled for these plays which will include, Helen Chandler, Bramwell Fletcher, Rex O'Nalley, Entelle Winwood, Mary Astor, Robert Henderson and others. The company will begin' its transcontinental tour in Los Angeles arriving here around the holidays. Other plays to be presented under the Alex Yokel banner will be the new comedy "Bundle From Heaven," and "Eye on the Sparrow." Mr. Yokel's other plays which may come here are "Charlotte Corday," by Helen Jerome "Tom Cat," by John Taintor Foote and "Young Mr. Disraeli." a biography of Lord Beaconflcld to the age of 34, by Elswyth Thane.

Sigmund Romberg's Operetta "May wine" with a cast headed by Use Marvenga and Walter Slezack will be seen here for the first time after an entire season in New York; Also a play by the Group Theatre which will be either a new work by Clifford Odets, or "Johnny Johnson," the runner-up for the critics prize last season. Several road-show pictures are also expected during the season. The Children's Theatre of New York will again present its series of six plays under the sponsorship of the Women's International League at the Erlanger. T7TCTORIA REGINA" at the Forrest Theatre Helen Hayes will be seen as Queen Victoria of England in this stage depiction, by Laurence Housman, of the plump little women who ruled England so Since the play begins with Victoria's accession to the throne in 1S37, and ends with her famous Jubilee of 1597, Miss Hayes is required to begin her portrayal as an attractive girl, and end it as the stooped dowager surrounded by a devoted court. The play, divided into many scenes, and requiring a large cast not yet specified, has been; produced by Gilbert Miller.

Philadelphia will be the first stop in a transcontinental tour. The engagement here will be for three weeks only, starting October EDWARD ARNOLD 'Toast ef York" Lyric -V-VvvgJSBBBBMBBBSBBBSSSSa; j. i At the first convention of the American Thatre Council held In New York to inquire into ways of improving the utatus of the legltlmtae theatre, one of the important questions under discussion concerned the problems of touring stars and the movies. Because a successful Broadway play Is taken so quickly by Hollywood and at figures that author and producer cannot afford to slight, few of the better plays, particularly the comedies, have an opportunity to do long tours before they are placed in active competition with the film version. This complaint is one that need not bother Charlotte Greenwood in "Leaning on Letty," She can tour it as long as she likes and the coming season will see her on an extended tour of the East starting with an engagement in Philadelphia, at the Chestnut Street Opera.

House, Monday night, Sept. 20, but she can retain in her repertory so long as it suits her. Why Hays Office Balked The reason for this is what the Hays office, which controls the destinies of films, decided when the play was originally offered to Hollywood under the title "Post Road," that it was the best arrangement of a perfect crime in kidnaping-racketeering TROC HAS LIVELY SHOW IN 'GIRLS FROM FOLLIES' The new policy at the Troc will be continuous performances from' noon till 5 p. m. at 25 and 35 cents ad- mission, i ne new attraction billed is "Girls i me ui-Vlies," headed by Chinese Amy Fong orace ana glamor mark- her movements.

The chief comedian is the popular Billy Hageh, who promises new blackouts that will garner s. plenty of hearty I laughs, rat raise Lillian Harri son, exotic dancer, has prominent place on the program. There are a dozen or so specialists, and a chorus of pretty young girls. SHILLING BID FOB MINE BIGHTS Johannesburg (UP). A bid of one shilling (25 cents) was offered for the mineral rights of the famous Doornhoek platinum mines at a pub lic auction here.

The shares of the mine at one time 'was J'talked up" to 25 and were Involved In one of the most sensational collapses the Rand share market has ever seen. CARY GRANT "Topper" Clementon, Trlncos i Hollywood Stars Who Are Featured tn -New Photoplays on Local Screens X- A LORETTA YOITNQ "Love inder rire' Savar JUDY GARLAND "Broadway Melody ef 1851" Stanley.