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lArUrt Inrlurtarl 8 TREND SECTION Of THE BROOKLYN EAGLE SUNDAY, MAY 5, 1940 'To What Red Hell' Has Sara Allgood Noted Irish Actress Came Over Here With Original Abbey Theater Players negstlrs, his succinct resson being "too many girls slresdy." Hodgers, Hsrt snd Abbott were not so easily downed. "Don't be so funny," they urged. "You've given us a better title. Now go ahead and do the work." So Marion, accepting the new title "Too Many Girls," as well as the compliment, started to polish the book and included the new-character. Rodgers and Hart set CANDID CLOSE-UPS Betty Hutton: America's No.

1 Jitterbug and Blond Bombshell Of 'Two for the Show' literary society which decided one day to organize drams class. This class later became the famous Abbey Theater. So prolific has been her success that "Who's Who" requires two and a half pages to list down to compose music and lyrics. And Mr. Abbott set about casting.

Now Diosa, who never went to college, plays the role of a female cheer-leader and by this time considers herself an authority on coeducational life in the United States. STAGE iLAYS MAJESTICtbroboYly5 Fulton Near Rockwell PI. KATHARINE tj0m When Governor Herbert H. Lehman inducts more than 1.000 new members into the B'nai B'rith on Monday evening at Manhattan Center, many notables of the stage and screen will be formally enrolled in the international fraternity. Among them will be Ted Lewis, Abe Lyman, Albert Warner, Jack Conn of Columbia Pictures, J.

L. Leban and Arthur Silverstone. Culbertson's Play Ely Culbertson Is working on his long delayed mystery play, "The Unguarded Queen," in preparation for Fall production. Robert Milton will produce it. BROOKLYN 5 Phone NEeini R-tJSD-l CORNELL Staged by MANHATTAN Well known to American audiences is Sara Allgood, who plays the leading role in Percy Robinson's "To What Red Hell," which opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Wednesday evening.

"To What Red Hell" was first presented at Wyndham's Theater in London with Miss Allgood in the starred part. Both play and actress were hailed by the scribes of Fleet Sttreet, with many of the commentators venturing the opinion that her performance ranked among the very best among the hundreds of characters she had created in her multi-sided career. She will, of course, play her original role in the current presentation. Miss Allgood. one of the original members of the famous Abbey Players, has appeared often in this country, both with her own group and for outside managements.

Her more recent engagements on this continent were in "Shadow and Substance." "Madam, Will You Walk?" "Storm Over 'Patsy" and the last revival of "Juno and the Paycock." She is generally rated as one of the outstanding character actresses on the English-speaking stage. Her dramatic background is as Irish as her face and temperament: her earliest experience was gained in such plays as "Deirdre," "The King's Threshold," "Kathleen Ni Houlihan," "Riders to the Sea," "The Plough and the Stars" and "Juno and the Paycock." She never exactly decided to become an actress; she drifting into acting from a Dublin and The Playwrights' Company present S. N. BIHRMAN'S Latest Succ.it NO TIME FOR COMEDY with FRANCIS LEDERER GUTHRIE MARGALO GILLMORE JOHN WILLIAMS McCLINTIC Only Appearance in Greater Mew York EVES. Orchestra $2.75, Balcony Second Bilcanu $1.10 Mat.

W'd. and Sat. Orch. $2.20, Bale. 2d MARGARET CURTIS and Eddie Nugent in 'The Strangler a new thriller scheduled to open tomorrow evening at the Lyceum Theater.

STAGE WALTER WINCHELL Margaret Curtis Is In 'Strangler Fig' Scottish Actress Studied in London, Made Her Debut Here With the Lunts and HIGHER' funniest musical now on the boards" Alan Napier Gets There in Spite of Skyscraper Effect After ten years on stage in the average three-story building, Napier By ROBERT FRANCIS A few nights ago we discussed life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness with Betty Hutton in her dressing room while she prepared for the first act of 'Two for the The question of current heart interest naturally came up. It always does. She dmltted to a lot of boy friends, to liking to go to all the night clubs from the Village to Monte Carlo and the Stork, but she was emphatic that she was serious about none. We must admit that she did speak casually of going dancing with a certain Mr. Fred Kaplan, a lawyer and rhumba expert, but either Betty was not quite frank or maybe it's Just Spring.

Anyway, before we could get this down on paper, Betty made the headlines with the announcement that she was marrying this same Mr. Kaplan on Thursday last. Our most recent information was to the effect that Mother Hutton had talked them both into waiting a month. However, Betty is as unpredictable as her dancing, and for all we know she may be Mrs. by now.

Betty has a particularly soft spot for Brooklyn. She got her first real "break'' three Summers when she appeared with Lopez' band at Manhattan Beach. The kids loved her at once. She says no one ever noticed her before, and that their enthusiasm led to her getting a start on her own. She's been back twice since to the Flatbush, and we can attest that the fans made the old theater rock on both occasions.

In case you missed these last and haven't seen "Two for the Show," we must explain that she is America's No. 1 Jitterbug. Her singing voice is only fair, but she is "swing" to her fingertips. She tamps, wriggles, and squeals. Even her eyes have rhythm.

We have never seen such inexhaustible vitality and energy. It makes you feel tired just to watch her, but she is personality with a capital If jou don't believe it, go over to the Booth some night and watch her do the "Little Miss Muffct" number. We asked her what she did to keep fit for all that effort. It would seem that any one must go into rigid training to keep up the pace. She doesn't know what the word means.

Smokes continuously, drinks what she likes (her favorite is a sherry egg-nog) and is always up late. Says she'd probably work better if she got enough sleep, but she's never found out. Hobbies are bowling, backgammon, and country weekends when she can "collapse." For purposes of the record, she is 19, comes from Detroit, and has an apartment with her mother up on W. 72d St. We presume that will be her address for at least another month, unless Mr.

Kaplan has something to say about it in the meantime. We congratulate him. He a very lucky man. Broadway Snapshots Messrs. Olsen and Johnson get all kinds of letters.

Some people like them and some don't. It takes all kinds of people to make a horse race. Anyway, "Hellzapoppin" is In its second year and still selling out. so the balance seems to be all on their side. However, one came in recently from a lady in Brooklyn, who neglected to sign her name, which really hurt their feelings.

The lady, who says she has never seen their show and announces no desire to do so, takes them severely to task with a nice choice of nouns and adjectives for using "poor, defenseless animals to earn a living for you." She inquires further as to why they can't earn said living "without bringing in animals to suffer." Neither Messrs. O. and J. or us would know what caused this outburst. We have been backstage at the Winter Garden a dozen times and seen the "menagerie," which consists of rabbits, chickens, pigeons, and can vouch that they appear well cared for and very happy.

They seem to enjoy their part in the proceedings. In fact, the only danger is that some of the rabbits may be killed by kindness. The chorus girls are always stuffing them with lettuce leaves. Incidentally, the lady was a little inaccurate as to Ole's and Chic's antecedents. Their real names are John Siguard Olsen and Harold Ogden Johnson, and both spring from good old mid-West stock.

Mary Heberden, the snobbish Esme Bellingham of "Lady in Waiting," spend off-stage hours in writing mystery novels, two of which have been published' by the Crime Club. She signs them M. V. Heberden, ami readers take it for granted that she is a man. Thinks that men are more inclined to read a man's mystery thriller than a woman's.

Page Mary Roberts Rinehart! Margaret Webster will be gue.st director for the Rollins Studio's Winter term in New York. Reginald Lawrence and Curtis Can-field will direct the acting school's productions in the John Drew-Memorial Theater out at Easthampton during the Peggy Wood, Dudley Digges, Bobby Clark and Edgar St.ehli are netjor prominent parts in the Players Club revival of the Congreve Restoration comedy, "Love for Love," which will be presented for a week beginning June 3. Play was last produced by the Province-town Players at the Greenwich Village Theater in 1925. Edgar Erehh will piay his old role of "Tattle." Mr. Digges will direct.

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ML. 2 40. Clr. i7 it HIGHER is the comedy i the various parts she has played, For reasons that will become clear within a sentence or two, her first I trip to Americs lingers in her memory. That goes back to 1911, jwhen the Abbey troupe made its initial visit to these shores.

They offered "The Playboy of the Western World" at the Maxine Elliott Theater and caused riot. The I Irish of New York, who considered Synge's lusty poetic comedy an af-i front to their race and an indecent show as well, threw spuds tired eggs, tomatoes and eve nopen jack-knives at the actors. When the cops had thrown out the disturbers, Lady Gregory, who was handling the players, stepped before the curtain and calmly announced that the play would be nt wm lha kanlnnlnir Afiar (rjJrCtlCU ilUUI lite mgiiiiiliis, the penormance ine piayers wem to their hotels under police escort. At almost every stand on the tour there were similar outbreaks. In Philadelphia the entire company was arrested for giving an immoral and libidinous performance and held in $5,000 bond.

'It was the first time," says Miss Allgood, "that I heard the word 'libidinous' and I thought it was a grand word. We all adored it." However, her subsequent experiences in America were less scan dalizing; and Miss Allgood has made many friends here from both I sides of the footlights. generally found that leading ladies didn't like being dwarfed by him, hence he never went through the usual leading man phase. Actually, he finally achieves a romantic lead in "Lady in Gladys George apparently having no particular objection to good-sized fiances. As a matter of fact, Napier's height almost lost him his first theatrical engagement.

This was immediately following his graduation from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts when James Bernard Fagan asked him to appear with the Oxford Players. Fagan had just dismissed Tyrone Guthrie from the company because he thought Guthrie was too tall to play most stock parts. He finally engaged Napier, who had remained seated during the interview. When he got up to go Fagan opened his eyes and exclaimed, "You're taller than Tony," but seeing the dismay on Napier's face he immediately added: "It's all right. I've engaged you." Napier feels that his height helped rather than hurt him in stock.

In partice it served to Identify him in his various character roles, forced him also to learn the tricks of makeup and carriage to conceal or accentuate it. In "From Morn to Midnight," for instance, he played a fat gentleman, a tubercular waiter and a Salvation Army leader, all within the course of the play. Fagan's company at this time likewise included two promising young actors named John Giel-gud and James Whale. They appeared with Napier in the first London production of a Chekhov jirama "The Cherry Orchard" in 1924. Quits Spanish on Stage feel as if all were right with the world.

Talent scouts go to strange places in their search for gold, so It wasn't surprising that a few agents soon knocked at the senorita's door and advised her to try her luck in a I more lucrative sphere. Finally she accepted an invitation to appear at El Morocco, one of New New York's most exclusive haunts, i So successful was she that the for- I eign language theater lost her for- i ever. Other engagements followed I and last Spring she became the stellar attraction at La Conga. Here George Abbott, even then contemplating the production of "Too Many Girls," saw her for the first time. He invited music writer Richard Rodgers and lyric writer LorenaHart to be his guests one night last Summer at the club.

He watched their eager applause, then sprang his idea of hiring her for their joint production. The Messrs. Rodgers and Hart pointed out to the maestro that not only were the female characters already set by author George Marion but that the Latin-American element was suitably controlled by Desi Arnaz, Cuban singer and dancer. 'That's Just it," said Abbott, "there ought to be a feminine counterpart for our Latin glamour boy, and Diosa would be perfect. Mr.

Abbott further pointed out that if cast as an American college girl, she would make the T. B. M. (Tired Business Man) indubitably long for his student days. The three men wired George Marion, who was still in California, and asked him to write a part for her.

1 Marion auiwet wu in tin 1 Before the last two seasons brought her final recognition by the Broadway producers, "They also serve who stand and wait" was a quotation taken much to heart by Margaret Curtis, who is invested with a leading role in Edith Meiser's new mystery drama, "The Strangler Fig," which will be presented by William Herz at the Lyceum Theater on Monday evening. Miss Curtis came to the American stage with a wealth of training. Although her parents were Scotch, and looked with disdain on actors and acting, Margaret managed to persuade them to permit her to attend the Royal Academy in London, where she studied dramatics. She was the youngest in her class to be graduated. She had the usual and valuable experience of English actresses in that she played in several provincial repertory companies in England soon after her graduation.

Then she got a post with Decard at the Academie Francaise. Nearly five years ago she decided greater opportunities would be available in America. The Theater Guild was seeking a few authentic English girls for the "Point Va-laine" company starring the Lunts, and Miss Curtis was chosen. Next season she was just one of the extras in "Love on the Dole." When Wendy Hiller, its star, had to re National Music League Gives Town Hall Concert The National Music League is introducing its solo artist list in a program of unusual music Tuesday afternoon at Town Hall. Those appearing are Claus Adam, violoncellist; Jean Bryan, contralto; Ruth Diehl, soprano; Gizella Eh-renwerth, violinist; Ruth Freeman, flutist; William Gephart, baritone; William Masselos, pianist; Bertha Melnik, pianist; Walter Robert, pianist; Mara Sebriansky, violinist; Zariel Skolovsky, pianist, and Frank Widdis, organist.

The National Music League is a non profit making organization which gives young American artists an opportunity to earn their careers. Jacob Weinberg Recital A program of the compositions of Jacob Weinberg will be heard at Town Hall Wednesday at 8:45 p.m. The assisting artists will include two who are making their American concert debuts on this occasion, Igo Gutmann, tenor, and Jani Szanto, violinist. Mr. Gutmann was leading tenor of the Berlin State Opera and the Vienna Volks-Opera.

Mr. Szanto was head of the violin department of the State Academy of Music, Munich. Other assisting artists will be Marguerite Kozenn, soprano, of the Royal State Opera, Bucharest; Isi-dor Geller, organist; Moses Rudl-now, baritone; Dvora Lapson and her group, who will be seen in dances set to Weinberg's music. Romance Not So Vital Boy will go on meeting girl In movies for a long time but the formula of building an entire story around that situation is fading as rapidly and certainly as the sun does at the end of a film travelogue. The top non-formula picture of today is "Northwest Passage" wherein romance takes a back seat to physi 3 cal adventure.

Too Real to Be 'Phoney Because Binnie Barnes speaks French fluently she had some difficulty with the "phoney" French 3cent she uses in Warner Til We Meet Again," Miss Barnes plays a bogus and vampish I French, countess. turn to England, the management chose Miss Curtis for the principal role. "I was the mast surprised girl in the whole of Equity at the time," she confesses. "I didn't think anybody noticed me in that company but, without being asked, I was understudying Miss Hiller. I guess my ambition didn't hurt.

I loved the part and was happy at- the opportunity. Alfred de Liagre Jr. saw me in that and as a result let me be understudy to Agnes Doyle in his production of 'Fresh Later that led me to a small role in his production of 'Yes, My Darling Since then. Miss Curtis definitely has made her mark in the Broadway field. In "Father Malachy's which enjoyed a long run here, she played the leading role.

Later, when the Theater Guild, in association with Orson Welles' Mercury Theater, produced the ill-fated "Five Kings," she was given a prominent part opposite Burgess Meredith. Between productions, she is a familiar figure in the radio studios, having appeared on such programs as "Hilltop House," "Beyond Reasonable Doubt," "Life Begins" and "David Harum," while each Summer season finds her active in stock work. Hallie Flanagan Named Adviser to 'Lost Colony' Hallie Flanagan, director of the Vassar College Experimental Theater and national director of the defunct Federal Theater Projects, has been named advisory director of Paul Green's historical drama "The Lost Colony," which opens its fourth Summer season at the Waterside Theater, Manteo, N. June 29. Mrs.

Flanagan accepted tne post following a week of discussion in Chapel Hill with Author Green and Samuel Selden, director of "The Lost Colony" since its inception. She will attend subsequent conferences there on plans for the forthcoming production of the historical dra'ma at the nation's birthplace. During the past three seasons "The Lost Colony" was "loaned" a small group of actors by the New York City Federal Theater Project for playing the leading roles. This year the production will depend more on native talent and the Carolina Playmakers. Always interested in the national theater movement, with the Federal Theater as a major step in that direction, Mrs.

Flanagan has said that "The Lost Colony" is the most perfect example of dramatic enterprise on a community basis. She said that only by such plays will drama become a part of our national life. More Than She Asked Last year Claudette Colbert signed with for two pictures. When she had finished the first, "It's a Wonderful World," with James Stewart, she was promised that the second would be with either Clark Gable or Spencer Tracy. Now she's in "Boom Town" and has two sweethearts Gable and Tracy.

Overtime It used to be said a movie star's professional life was five years. Well. Wallace Beery has celebrater his 55th birthday and his 31st year in motion pictures. Original, Anyhow Bonita Granville collects autographs on an ordinary white feminine shirt. When stars sign their names, Bonita, embroidert them In red.

British diplomatic service Alan Napier fled to Hollywood, where he was pormptly relieved of his chevrons and shoved into the hierarchical vestments of the archdeacon in "We Are Not Alone" and the habiliments of a drunken Lancashire blackmailer in "The Invisible Man Returns." Now he is back in knee breeches again that is, figuratively making his first American stage appearance opposite Gladys George in Margery Sharp's contribution to the season's gayety, "Lady in Waiting," which Brock Pemberton presents at the Martin Beck Theater. In "Lady in Waiting" Napier plays Sir William Warring, gray-tinged diplomat and boulevardler in which Julia Packett finds an unexpected ally on hostile grounds. He is is who finally gives her a ladyship and the play its, title. The role is not dissimilar to those he has been playing for the past decade in fact, Sir William is brother under the title to the Marquis of Shayne in "Bitter Sweet," the part that set him off on his foreign office career. In his middle 30s, Napier has been playing elderly roles ever since Noel Coward advanced his age by half a lifetime for "Bitter Sweet." He was an army gentleman in "The an Earl in "Sweet Aloes," which ran a year and a half in London, three weeks in New York; an elderly, pompous Hungarian in "Firebird." and a foreign office attache for a change in "Hay Fever." Napier Isn't certain what caused producers to think of Legion of Honor braids and sealed portfolios when he walked into their offices but he thinks it may have been his height.

Somewhat taller than the Darting Diosa To Go College The West Indies, not to be outdone by the South American countries in the matter of exporting heat waves, have sent Diosa Cos-tcllo to delight New York audiences with her dancing and equatorial personality in "Too Many Girls," the Rodgers and Hart musical comedy which George Abbott is now showing to enthusiastic audiences at the Broadway Theater. As if to help Senorita Costello creafe international good will, George Marion author of the book, has turned her into a co-ed in a small college in the United States. As an un-der-graduate who likes her romances mixed with football, Diosa Costello plays havoc with the student body, while entertaining the audience with her piquant "manner and her dancing gyrations. One critic wno saw her dance called Diosa Costello "Latin Lightning" and the habitues of fashionable nightclubs seem to agree. She looks demure, but when she does her specialties, which are the rhumba, the conga and the tango, she is anything but.

Perhaps the mixture of Italian, Spanish, Irish and Indian blood in her explains her rich personality. Just past 20, she came to America via Mexico and her native Puerto Rico. When her family arrived in this country, Diosa was too young to think of a professional career. Certainly her convent training would have precluded any thought of the stage. But money was not plentiful and she began to work in factories and shops, where her exuberance had to be restrained.

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at lr. S-MB Evs. RoTMntsTTODAYind THI St :40 OPENS WEDNESDAY EVEN UT, Seats Taday TO WHAT RE A Play ol bv Perr? with SARA ALLGOOD BARRYMORE Thea 4ith W. of B'way PsBnson TUC MAM WUA MAN WHO College Evening Session To Present 'Our Town' The dramatic organization of the evening session of Brooklyn College called the Brooklyn College Players, will present "Our Town," on Thursday, Friday and Saturday p.m., May 9, 10 and 11, at the Brooklyn College Theater. The boys and girls of the society work during the day, attend classes at night, start rehearsals at 10.30 p.m.

and again work into the wee hours of the morning. All their Sundays are also put into rehearsals. Incidentally, Arnold Mass, now-appearing as the inquisitor in Fifth Column," is a Brooklyn College day session speech instructor, now on sabbatical leave. He previously directed plays presented in the Little Theater. Yiddish Play at Parkway Theater Michael Rosenberg, Juriah Bleich and Wolfe Barzek have the stellar roles in "Three Daughters," A.

Blum's Yiddish comedy drama, opens at the Parkway Theater in Brooklyn this weekend. It is offered there as the second weekend guest attraction, with Dinah Halpern and Muni Serebrov heading the cast. Producer-Director Own Dance Director John Ford, producer-director of The Long Voyage Home" for Argosy productions, is acting as his own dance director in a drunken party staged on the deck of the S. Glencairn" set at Walter Wanger studios. "The dance is an Irish Jig," Ford savs, "and who am I to let.

anv one tell me how It should be done?" 'Night of Nights' Show For Benefit of China "Night of Nights for China," sponsored by the China Aid Council, takes plare'ftnis evening at the Center Theater. The program include; Luther Adler, James Barton. Dudley Dieges Alan Dinehart, Eddie Dolme. Marts Bramwell Fletcher, John Garliclri. Richard Haydn.

Helen Haves, Sam Levene. Bert Lytell. Molly Picon. Ezra Stone. Sylvia Sidney, Tamara, Chen.

Agnes De Mille. Bill Robinson, members of the Ballet Theater, George Jessel. Jack Benny. Ben Bcrnie. the Boogl-Woogie pianists, Eddie Duchin, Harry Hershfielrl.

Jane Pickens, Al Tra-han, James J. Walker, the Cobma Wrights, mother and daughter, and York and King. Downtown National Now Vaiety House The Downtown National Theater on 2d Ave and Houston St which has for many years been devoted to legitimate Jewish plays, will become America's only Yiddish vaudeville house this weekend. As the opening bill Jack Rovenger. veteran Jewish manager, who Just leased that East Side Theater, is presenting an array of leading Yiddish stars, headed by Aaron Lebedeff, Freidele and Hymie Jacolv-on.

The trio will be seen in a new musical comedy revue, called "A Wedding on the East Side," fn which Chaim Tauber, Paula Lubelska, Annie Lubin and Jacob Zangrr ate also featured. The condensed revue will be offered in addition to eight siruie variety acts. Jack Stillman's orchestra and the latest Jewish talking pictures. The program will he presented there continuously at popular prices through the day, with a complete change of the en-tlrt bill every Friday hereafter. OSCAR SEPLIN vrrtente Clarence" Day'a IJ Made Into HOWARD LINDSAY ind RUSSEL CR0U8E EMPIRE B'way and 40 St.

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55a la 12.75. Mali. Wad.and 5 la 12.20 The. Theatre. Guild in njimciofion with Eddie Dowling vrenenti the new WILLIAM SAROYAN comedy LOVE'S OLD SWEET SONG WALTER HUSTON and JESSIE ROYCE LAND1 PLYMOI TH W.

4.Uh St. CI. fl-BIMl Eys. :30. Mats.

THI'RS. and SAT. 3:30 PRICES CI'T Tn'haLp" CLARE ROOTIIES COMEDY HIT' Margin for error EVERY 55c to $1.65 MAIESTIC. W. 44th St.

CI. 1 0730. Evil. 8.50 7lhM0NTHI Matlniai WEO. and SAT.

at 1:50 "PRESCRIBED PLAYGOI The New Living Newspaper Plv Medicine show NEW YORKER Rt. of B'way Evil. 1:50) Mali. Wad. and Sat.

2:50. Clr. 8-2737 MORNING STAR MOLLY PICON and JOSEPH BI'LOFP ALL EVES. 55c to $2.20 I.ONC.ACRE.ISIhSt. W.ofR'way.Cl.fl-SIM Evil.

Rjlth MataJVEI). SAT. HI. 6,1 Top THE CIRCUS IS STILL IN TOWNI JOHN BARRYMORE ln MY DEAR CHILDREN BELA8C0 THEA. .44 St.

Col B'way. BR. 1-1087 Ev(a. 8:30. Mall.

Wed. and Rat. 300 Seat $1.10200 at $1.65 Saati nnw it all erleei tar HI Mr'enniniei "caksefun vretenlt Clarence Day'a 1 FF. WITH PATUrIIHt HimHri iai.WefSir.