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SUNDAY THE BROOKLYN DAILY TIMES JANUARY 111931 A JANUARY WEEK CONTAINING IMPORTANT NEW PLAYS 12 MIRIAM, HOPKINS My Idea of True Happiness Both Sides of the Curtain By Rowland Field Bu EDDIE CAKTOR (Appearing at the Albee Theatre) My idea of happiness Is peace of mind. Since this is an age of synonyms, e-itli every human being more or less engaged In solving word pussies, why not amplify the definition of peace of mind adding a word thatpretty well describes this great thing called happiness contentment? A selfish man is like a rooster with one feather In his tail. That feather waving eternally in the wind advertises to the world that he has all that hd hasn't. Every man has certain responsibilities his family, his friends, hie neigh, bora and the community In general. And no man can be happy who entirely In and for himself.

mn who shirks all responsibility towards others and live solely to get every advantage for himself la going to find some day that he haa squeezed the lemon entirely dry. At that-painful puncture no philanthropist la going to come along and refill his lemon for him. A pretty big part of happiness la to found in helping other. The old adage about the comparative blessing derived from giving and receiving is true. If we can help and aid In the problems of others we develop a certain contentment which comes, in turn, from the satisfaction of a good thing well done.

If we don't exercise our human Interest in helping people who need it were going to some day find ourselves in a position where we ask for sympathy and get haii oil Instead. i Aa an example, Itt quota i story. YOU may have heard the elephant who went for atroll through the woods and saw a little bird whose mother hat been killed by a hunter. Poo little thing said the elephant "I'll help It along. So she aa down on the neat Ulus trates pretty, well what I mean Probably more poems havi been written about the subject kind words than any other wlti the poaaible exception of love Kind words ahould he only incl dental, lte kind deeds that couni Personally, VyA never heard of man rescued from drowning kind words.

But several hav been saved by people who Jumper in after them. I always try to remember tha the man who goes to bed with th knowledge of one useful dehd don that day sleeps better than th man who has Juat burned dowi the orphan asylum or broken hi father's will and left his mothe at a washboard. Seriously, one must work con genially with an object, etruggl toward a set goal, observe an ac tlve interest in things worthy Interest and try to he a help others as well as to onea sell These things make for an activ. healthy life and earn respect, re gsrd and affection from everyon who comes in contact with us. At any rate, that's my view life.

And if you're going to as' whether or not Im happy, all am going to do is point out home, my five children and friends. AT THE LOEW THEATRES. Appearing in the all-star cast which Bela Blau has assembled for his revival of Schnitzlers Anatol which opens on Friday at the Lyceum Theatre. uThe Blue Anger Shown At Brooklyn Paramount Marlene Dietrich, who scored such tremendous success In Morocco, comes to the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre this week with Emil Jannings in The Blue Angel which is still breaking records at the Rialto Theatre on Broadway. In The Blue Angel Emil Jannings plays the part of a professor of literature in a German boys school.

He is a very upright and honorable gentlemen of middle age- One day he discovers his pupils playing with souvenir post cards of Marlene Dietrich, a beautiful English singer in the Blue Angel Cafe, a waterfront resort in the city. Jannings, guessing that his pupils are dissipating their time at this forbidden resort, determines to visit the cabaret and catch them red-handed, scold them and lead them to righteousness. Arrived at the Blue Angel, Jannings is confused by the pandemonium and presently finds himself in the presence of the beautiful Marlene. He states his business but as he talks to her he succumbs to her cjparms. The next day he is the target for his students Jokes and the directors of the school hearing that he has visited -this notorious woman immediately fire him.

The professor goes to Mar. lene for consolation. Jannings' degradation at the hands of the fasclnattong Marlene and his pitiful life as he falls from responsibility to the very depths of the slums is one of the most tragic and dramatic tales eier witnessed on the talking screen. On the stage Rudy Valles and his Connecticut Yankees are seen in an elaborate Publlx revue. Miniatures.

featuring Val and Ernie 8tanton, Julia Curtis, Blanche and Elliott, the Three Jacks and the Bobbie Sanford Ensemble. Rublnoff conducts the Brooklyn Paramount Orchestra in an unusual musical spectacle and Stuart Barrie and Elsie Thompson are at the twin organs. 'She Means Business At Brandts Boulevard She Means Business," the latest play by Samuel Shipman, is the attraction at Brandts Boulevard, Jackson Heights, this week, prior to lta Broadway presentation in a fortnight. James Elliott, the producer, will be remembered for his Broadway productions of "Castles in the Air, The Gorilla" and Rope." The return to the producing field of this manager with She MeaJs Business, will be followed by two other plays, now in rehearsal. Samuel Shipman has chosen a novel theme and treated it in a most unique and romantic style.

This playwright in the author of Lawful Larceny, Exemption. The Kreutzer Sonata," and Friendly Enemies. She Means Business" is a modern American play dealing with an unusual theme, that of womans wrongs as created by the unrepealed blue laws. Wedded woes are said to be treated by this author with originality and comedy. These are problems that so often confront man.

a woman and a business. How far can a man be trusted? Has a woman no property protection? Will our laws ever be amended to meet the modern needs? The cast includes a galaxy of well known players from the stage and the screen. Ann Davis, leading lady, has been co-starring with William Faversham during the past year. Ben Bard was for many years under the management of Messrs. Shubert and has just returned from Hollywood.

Herbert Rawlinson has been starring In the films, and Wallis Clark is the English actor, remembered for his parts in Ibsen and Pinero productions. Others are Ruth Donnelly, last seen in New York in "The Sap from Syracuse; Kathryn Kohler, who played Princess Lydia in Her Friend the King. and Tom Tempest, with a record of 40 years on the stage. Also Lee Kohlmar of the original cast of "Friendly Enemies- Millard Mitchell, Douglas Wood, Edwin Walter. Huston Richards.

Gladys Deering. Desiree Foster, Forrest Huff, and Robert DESPITE the tact that Ethel, Barrymore black-face troupe I no longer performing In our midst, there still remains in the air considerable discussion regarding the Peterkin plays debatable merits. Few dramas in recent year have raised such a rumpus in critical circles and though the play passed quickly from the New York battle-front, the somewhat surprised and Indignant star is till taking a stalwart stand in its behalf by taking the work with its burnt-cork characters on a tour of the more Important provinces. A recent item of interest in this prolonged conflict that accompanies the First Actress current vehicle is an open letter appearing in the January issue of the Theatre Guild Magazine. It is a sincere reprimand that, addressed to a famous star, makes interesting reading.

The letter fallows: Miss Ethel Barrymore, Scarlet Sister Mary Company. My dear Miss Barrymore: I trust you do not believe that the critical disapproval of your "Scarlet Sister -Mary is motivated by resentment at the harsh things you may have said about the critics. As a member of your audience, I can assure you that it correctly expresses the feeling of your thousands of admirers. That trace of bitterness which you detected in the reviews was the bitterness not of resentment but of disappointment. For years we, the audience, have looked to you to do fine things In the theatre.

We trusted you, with the confidence born of personal devotion, to brin back to our stage some of the glory of profound and noble acting Instead what have we had? Declassee, he Love Duel, The Kingdom of God and Scarlet Sister Mary. There was, 1 agree, something of merit in each of these plays. And It required some artistic courage on your part to go into roles so utterly different from those with which the matinee devotee associates you to act, for example, the aged Abbess of The Kingdom of God and the Negro strumpet of Scarlet Sister Mary. But your courage was misplaced. The plays gave us nothing particularly worth remembering.

You retort, of course: You dont like my plays? Well, how me better ones. Where are they to be jnd They are to be found, dear lady, in the library. On the corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty-Second Street there are hundreds, possibly thousands, of plays worthy of your distin-guished abilities. Thera-you will find (forgive me for remind-, lng you) Ibsen, Hauptmann, and Hebbel. There you will find Also Shakespeare and Sophocles and Euripides.

And when did you last play Lady Teaxle You will object that production costa are high nowadays and the plays I have in mind can command but a limited audience. True. But what you forget to add i what should be most obvious to you a it is to us: Ethel Barrymore commands an unlimited audience. Suppose you stage a play which run but four weeks. What of it? During those four week you can be preparing another with your company of actors, all proud to work with you.

Suppose you are Medea for but a brief four week. Never fear; that play will be no failure (for It was written by a man who understood the theatre). Then Lady Teaxle. And then Lady Macbeth. Then, perhaps, the wandering wife in Mid-Channel.

And then Rebecca West of Mrs. Alving. You still have the blind loyalty of your public. You can charm them into appreciating some of the fine things in dramatic literature. And by doing so you have the opportunity to establish yourself as one of the half dozen foremost actresses of our generation.

Why not devote yourself to the drama instead of to passing trifles of the theatre? Or. to put (he matter on a more material basis, why not cease worrying about a long run for this or that play and consider a long run for Ethel Barrymore In short, why not repertory I agree with you that a great many sins have been committed in repertory's name. But at certain times repertory is the logical solution of the problems created by our speculative, unbusinesslike, commercial theatre. We. your audience, honestly feel that your reputation cannot survive another such failure as Scarlet 8ister Mary.

You have the opportunity, this year, to decide, whether you will be remembered as one of the artists of theyimericsn theatre, or as one of its victims. (Signed) ONE OF YOUR AUDIENCE. npHERE Is a new kind of musical comedy in town at the moment 1 and one that is most delightful when it doesn't attempt to go Broadway. I refer-to Meet My Sister," the present occupant of the Shubert Theatre, which a week or so ago was shown here in Brooklyn, at the Majestic. Here is a delicately Continental play, embellished with some excellent German melodies, that is bold enough to eliminate all such things as beauteous chorines and prancing gentlemen of the ensemble.

Instead, it depends on its little group of talented principals for its effects and the result is most pleasant Indeed. In Bettina Hall and Walter Slezak, Meet My Sister presents two of the seasons nicest young people. Miss Hall is possessed of a chafmlng voice and an ingratiating personality as the romantic countess in this imported story. I have alwavs been a great admirer of hers since she sang one of the Two Little Maids from School with the Winthrop Ames Savoyards, and, later, In the first Little Show. At presenLshe is engaged as a frisky patrician who masquerades as a shoe clerk.

Young Herr Slezak is making his American debut as a shyly amorous librarian and he shows himself to be a capable leading man. There is fine sincerity and charm to his performance and the manner in which he handles his two solo numbers is worthy of the highest praise. In singing Devil May Care and My Ideal (not the song of the same name vou hear nights on the radio) he displays a style all his own. With his artistic talents Walter Slezak might easily be developed into a second Chevalier, I think. To the credit of Meet My 8ister it must be said that this musical play is able to Overcome the handicaps of its raucous, slapstick second act.

It was a grievous mistake, in my opinion, to fill part of the play with so much topical, low humor. Harry Welsh is a funny comedian and as the shoestore proprietor he has his hilarious moments, but, on the whole, his. clowning is misplaced. The same applies to Olive Olsen, whose singing and dancing needs A more localized setting for success. Miss Hall, Mr.

Slezak and George Grossmith, who contributes a delicious comedy performance, are able to carry Meet My Sister along to a pleasant conclusion, and there are good acting bits supplied by Boyd Davis and Kay McKay. Plays in StredjSqene? Opens AtBfandts Flatbush Few plays in late years have met with such universal acclaim as Street Scene, Elmer Rice's stir, ring and beautiful dramatization of a certain phase of city life which will be presented at Brand't Flat-bush Theatre this week. The play, Which celebrated its second anniversary last week, comes to the Flatbush bearing the Pulitzer Prize banner and the stamp of wide popular success, not only in New York where the run numbered 600 performances, but also in Berlin and London. "Street Scene iW' living drama, crowded with fifty characters, closely packed with action. It not only affords an evening's vivid entertainment In the theatre, but alao awakens human emotions and lends breadth to human understanding.

A typical New York brownstone front apartment building is the slide upon which the dramatist has focussed" his microscope; you are permitted to stand at the front door and savor the essence of life. as it shuttles to and fro from Its work, or lounges about its nocturnal recreations. Emma Jones, once seen will never be forgotten; she ie the incorrigible gossip, blind to the defects of her own family, who shakes her dustcloth out of the third-story window in a spirit of sanctimonious cleanliness and takes her dog, Queenie, for a walk with tho airs of a duchess. Anna Maurrant, too, is etched indelibly on one's memory; the unfaithful wife, whose story makes one of the most exciting second acts ever staged. Nearest to the heart, of course, of all the widely varied characters who throng this fascinating drama is Rose, young and lovely as her name, whose love story la as a breath of springtime flowers, and who meets the disaster of her fathers home with, fine spiritual heroism.

Page after page would be required to aet forth in detail the story of Street Scene. It encom DOROTHY Brooklyn passes love and hate, birth and death, humor and excitement all the phases of life itself. large' cast includes Barbara Willison, Robert White, Arthur Behren, Florence Fair, Ida Moore. M. B.

Samuylow, Lucia Laska, Frank Marino, June Webster, Glenn Coulter and forty others. MThe Street Singer Comes to Majestic Queenie Smith, that magnetic star of grand opera and musical comedy, and her extensive cast of singers, dancers snd comics in "The Street Singer," will commence a weeks engagement at the Majestic Theatre, tomorrow evening, under the banner of the Messrs. Shubert The Street Singer" which besides Queenie Smith boasts of such musical comedy notables a. John Price Jones, George Hassell, Harry K. Morton, Archie Leach, Nick Long, Frank Lalor, Audrey Maple, Helen La Vonne and Eddie Garvie, comes here following a record career of eighteen months which included 27 weeks in New York, 15 in Chicago, four Jn Philadelphia and one and two weeks' engagements In most of the larger cities of the country.

In the "Street Singer, Queenie Smith portrays a Parisian street game in whom a young and wealthy American becomes interested and then endeavors to remold her In three months to his Ideal type of woman through education and cul-tuial environment, much after the style of Shaws "Pygmalian, Although it is explained as a psychological experiment, it literally bulges with comedy which accounts for the presence in one company of such a group of comics as Hassell, Morton, Lalor and Garvie. Musically it features ons of the country's biggest song hits, So Beats My Heart for You, while another popular number is, "I May Be Wrong But 1 Think You Are Wonderful," both of which have been heard here for months in advance of the show's recent opening. And from a girl and dancing standpoint "The Street Singer" is acknowledged the fastest and peppiest musical show since "Good News. STICKNEY Along Came Youth Atthe Fox Theatre Everything's new at the Fox Brooklyn Theatre this week "Along Came Youth la havtngMts New York premiere at that house; Fznchon and Marco introduce a new idea, and the organ is given a new touch by the twenty fingers of Ron and Don Instead of Bob West's ten. Charles Rogers, that young favorite of film fandom, whose sparkling zest has made his nams a household word, is again the delightful star of a refreshing romance-comedy, Along Came Youth.

In It, Rogers Is seen as the young American who Is stranded In London, with no money and a bad-tempered racing horse. He is forced to take a Job aa a chef in a swanky British batonlal mansion. In spite of his job as a menial, however, he manages to make good as an idol of the Idle rich girls. He finally regains his lost fortunes by riding his pet horse victory in-a thrilling steeplechase hunt. In "Along Came Youth, Charles Rogers la given a new and very lovely leading lady In the person of Frances Dee, who was Maurice Chevaliers sweetheart in Playboy of Parts.

Others in the cast are Stuart Erwin, Betty Boyd, William Austin, Evelyn Hall, Lee White, Mathilde Comont, and, the five Neetsfoot Boya A double reason for tfie organ at the Fox this week is Ron and Don, two very appealing young song chaps who -are destined to popularity in Brooklyh. bevy of beauties -in a stage show are presented by Fanchon and Marco in their "Genu Jams Idea. Featured herein are Joe Jane McKenna, master -and mistress of ceremonies; Will Cowan, in "Footsteps; Nee Wong, the Chinese Ukele Ike; Jean MacDonald, "Kick Bky High: Jim Penman, offering unicycle novelties, and Beatrice Franklin Florence Astell, songstress duo. Doctor a Thriller At Carlton-Jamaica Doctor described as a mystery thriller, will be presented at Brandts Cariton-Jamaica Theatre during the coming week. The new piece is the work of Howard Warren Comstock and Allen C.

Miller. It tells the story of a fiend incarnate, whose strange murders bear some resemblance to the recent jnystery deaths that have baffled the police in the leading cities. His killings, 'spresd over a period of several months, are of a peculiar nature, puzzling alike the foremost detectives, the daily press and the world of science. The entire community becomes terrorized and a huge reward is posted fop his capture. It is then that a curious scheme Is concocted to bag the killer, and the audience is permitbetFto Bit in at the experiment.

From then on the interest runs high, with one intensely exciting incident following another in rapid succession. The settings add greatly to the weirdness and effectiveness of "Doctor with the principal scenes laid in the laboratories of the surgeon. It is here that the several noted authorities are (fathered together for the great test and the events that transpire are said to be hair-raising. Doctor is recommended to the lovers of mystery thrillers, for it Is the kind of play that appeals to that large class of theatregoers who liked The Bat, The Spider and "Dracula. William and Harry Brandt, its producers, have given the piece a fine production and a cast of general excellence.

Howard Lang, who created the role of Dr. Chan Foo in The Silent House, and has played leading male roles opposite Mrs. Fiske, Florence Reed --and other stars, will-play the title role, while May Vokes, the famous slavey In the original production of "The Rat, has a slmilaF assignment in Doctor X. The company also includes Eden Gray of The Age of Innocence and Candle Llght, George Blackwood of Holiday. Florence Shirley of The Poor Nut, Barry Macullom, Leslie Adams, Charles Edwards, Robert Lowing, J.

W. Austin, Boris Mar-shnlov and Alixe Walker. The plav has been staged by Josephine Victor, favorably known to Broadway audiences as an emotional dramatic star. She is said to have introduced several novel Ideas In the stagllig of Doctor X. Matinees will beShvrn on Wednesday and Saturday gqusual.

UM others CryJs Shown At BrooklyhJStrand "Mothers Cry, the celluloid adaptation of Helen Grace Carlisle's sensational novel that leading critlca call "one of the beat three in the last five years, is being presented this week at the Brooklyn Warner Strand Theatre atti6 feature attraction. Mothers Cry is the story of an anguished mother whoso tolerance of a wastrel son wrecks the happy home she has built out of hard labor. It truly typifies the American home more realistically rthan has ever been done before, it is declared. Dorothy Peterson, stage star, plays the role of the mother and is supported by an able cast including Helen Chandler, David 'Manners. Sidney Biackmer, Evalyn Knapp, Edward Woods, 'Pst O'Malley, Claire McDowell and Charles Hilt Mattes.

Hobart Henley directed. The supplementary program of Vltaphone acts includes Frank Orth, of Codes and Orth, vaudeville and musical comedy headliners. in his latest skit, The Painter. and another R. Ripley "Believe It or Not short, in which this distinguished cartoonist offers another of his amazing queerioslties.

The Voice of Hollywood presenting screen celebrities at home and at play; the Paths Review and the Strand News with Graham McNamee, the talking reporter, commenting on the news of jthe week, sire other incidents on this bill. Flying High Coming To Majestic, Jan. 26 One of the most Important Brooklyn theatrical engagements of the year will be the appearance of George White's big musical comedy success, Flying High which comes to the Majestic Theatre for one week, starting Monday evening, Jan. 26. The production comes here direct from its Broadway run with the original cast intact The principal player In this merry musical play are: Bert Lehr, Oscar Shaw, Grace' Brinkley, Rue Brown and Pearl Osgood.

An added feature 1 the dancing of the Gale Sisters, the onlv set of quadruplets, on the stage today. Matinees will he given on Wednesday and Saturday, and popular prices will prevail for this exceptional engagement War Nurse, one of the more important January Festival screen production, comes to Loew's Metropolitan Theatre and Loew's Valencia Theatre at Jamaica this week. June Walker and Robert Montgomery have'the leading roles in this film and the cast also includes Anita Page, Robert Ames, Zazu Pitts, Hedda Hopper, Marie Prevoet and Edward Nugent. At Loews Metropolitan this week the vaudeville bill- is headlined by "The WOR radios most beautiful harmonists, in an unusual act. Another feature on the stage program is i Lillian Shaw, singing comedienne, and others include the Magic Fountain Revue, Lyteli and Fant, comedians, and Willie Mause.

The week's stage presentation at the Valencia is the Capitol revue, 'Nite Lites starring Harry Rose, the nut" comedian. Others appearing in this elaborate stage show are Deno and The Four Lees, Condos Brothers, Margie Greene, 8am Paige. the Chester Hale Girls and the Valencia Syn-copaters. Other Loew Theatres Harold Lloyd in his latest screen comedy, "Feet First, is the film attraction at the various Loew neighborhood vaudeville theatres during the first part of the week. The cast includes Barbara Kent, Alec B.

Francis, Lillian Leighton and Robert McWade. Only Sapa Work, with Leon Errol, Mary Brian and Richard Arlen, is the screen feature at tese Loew houses during the final half of the week. The vaudeville programs for the week include; BAY RIDGE Today to Tuesday: Tommy Manahan and Co-Eds, Leon Navara, Si Wills and Little Plplfax. Wednesday to Friday: Jean Granese And company, George Griffin and company, Syd Morehouse, and the Rubio Sisters. 46TH STREET Today to Tuesday; Bill Farrell and his Dad, Nancy Reed and Louise Arnold, Bryant, Dorcas and Ohma, the Embassy Trio, Jim and Betty Page and Max and hla Gang.

Wednesday to Friday: Oscar Lorraine, Harry Holman and company, Dash-Dot-Dash Revue Lester McGrath and Dare, and Bee Starr. GATES Today to Tueaday: The Dodge Twins, Beth and Betty; Julia Kelety. Chamberlain and Earle, and Monroe and Grant. Wednesday to Friday: Willie Solar, Bryant, Dorcas and Ohma, Tommv Evans and company, Grace and Eddie Parks and Olvera Brothers. PITKIN Today to Tuesday: Miss Vanessl.

Cheslelgh and Gibbs, Lila Campos, Olivers Brothers, Wednesday to Friday: Lulu McConnell and company. Bill Farrell and his Dad, Daro and Costa, George Kay, and Kay, Hamlin and Kay. The week's programs at the Loew film theatres Include: BREVOORT Constance Bennett AMUSEMENTS Manhattan 7th Are. end Seth Street Direct ioa L. Hothafrl (ROXY) SECOND 11KFX JANET CHARLES GAYNOR FARRELL I- RAOUL' WALSH'S THE MAN WHO CAME BACK A fast Picture from the Stage Play Hr jr RHYTHM Eight Sctntlllettni epleodea with nittre Rory EneemMe.

Selld, ettee, Re Symphony Orchestra ef l-e TODA lliee A. M. Inaugural Concert SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OP SOS KBNO RAFEK, Condlielnr MADAME SCHlW ANN-HEINE. Relolet WALTER DAMROHCH, Corel Conductor CAPITOL, Major Kdw. Bow.

Managing Director RKU) OVKRI 2nd BIO WRICK JOAN CRAWFORD ContlmM to thrill th town la PAID Wltll ROBKRT ARMMTRONG, a MARIK PRbVONT A Mtro-Golhrjn-Jdavr Picture Rntlr Rnppy fH fthowi JANA WHAIeRN. Chrmier Rato RmwIIm, CapitnllanH' BUNCHUK anil Orchestra, Htarai Matratooa wa mwhfnik mm On Arp. XIDBETT r.lOORE In M-fl-Ma ftmah HHt NEW MOON ACTOR THEATRE, R'war A 4,11 Bt. Tlr Deity, liSa-S-MI TIKE ION, UOL, t.ltM In Sin Takes a Holiday, toda and tomorrow; Harold Lloyd i Feet First, Tuesday snd Wednes day; Only Saps Work, with Leoi Jrr0' and Richard Arlen. Thnre day; George Bancroft In Derelict, Friday and Saturday.

CONEY ISLAND Harold Lloyt In Feet First," today and tomoif row; Oqly Saps Work, featurin' Leon Errol, Tuesday and Wednes day; The Office Wife, with Dot' othy Maokalll, Thursday and Frl day. I KAMEO William Haines i "Remote Control'! today and tr morrow; George Arllss in OH English, Tuesday and Wednesdav The Cat Creeps with Heie Tweivetrees. Thursday and Frida KINGS Marie Dreseler an Wallace Beery In Min and Bill, 'and an Our Gang Comedy, toda to Tuesday; John Gilbert and, Wat lacs Beery in Way for. a Shilor Wednesday, Thursday and Frida MELBA Harold Lloyd In Fe. First," Money, wit Eddie Qulllan, and Ken Maynar iif "Fightin Thru, tomorrow Tolable David" with Richar Cromwell, and "Road to Paradise with Loretta Young, Tuesday an Wednesday; Only Saps Work w-ith Leon Errol, Thursday an Friday.

Loew Circuit Notes Loew has grabbed itself anotho popular radio feature in its Jar uary Festival drive. George Shack leys WOR Moonbeams. It i currently playing at Loews Metro polttan Theatre in conjunction wit, a five-act vaudeville show. Lillia Shaw, known aa Americas for most dialect comedienne, is also feature of the variety progran The screen attraction is Wa Nurse with Robert Montgomery. Beth and Betty Dodge, Interna tional stars, bring their Loew ton to a close at Loews Gates Theati the first half of this week.

Agre ments are pending for -their mr pearance in a forthcoming Shubei production. The Loew booking office at nounces the signing of Eva Puc and Sammy White of Show Boat fame; Pat Rooney and his famil and Nat Chic Haines of th recent Hello Paris aa Januar1 Festival features 1 Miss Vanessl, glorious star of dance, and favorite of Paris night clubs, may be seen at Loe Pitkin the first half of this week AMUSEMENTS Manhattan -itiJOE riNE JQE COOK AND DANDY KK LANDER'S Theatre, W. 44 St.Peaa, Matinees Bed. A "'I Ale (jrIRL Ale A. A arose A Vlntoa Freed I.

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Trala dined SHh It1 study of music. This time at the Chicago Musical College where, curiously enough, she received an offer to play in Borgony Hammers Ibsen Repertory Company. Two years of barnstorming convinced her that New York was a theatrical heaven, and she arrived In Gotham with forty dollars to spare, but she never did get around to starving, new as she was to Broadway. Progress came In leaps and bounds, and quite suddenly she found herself cast in the leading role of Icebound, then All Gods Chlllun Got Wings, "Cobra. The Fall Guy and J.

P. McEvoy's God Loves Us. Dorothy Peterson is her real name. She is 26 and comes of an old Swedish line. No actors or actresses are in her family.

On Broad-way she is noted for extreme A Few Facts About Miss Dorothy Peterson Dorothy Peterson, who has the featured role in "Mothers Cry at the Brooklyn Warner-Strand Theatre this week, is one actress who didn't prepare the way to success by starving. Born in Hector, Minnesota, she matriculated at the University of Wisconsin, changed her mind about an academic studied opera instead. Again she changed her mind, and Attended a dramatic school that specialized in Greek adaptations. She did Euripides' Alcestes among other classical works, then ought new fields to conquer. She journeyed to Chicago, found little there for a budding young actress, and once more took up the Queenie Smith Discusses Her Stage Success "The secret of real stage success lies in a variety of plays and parts.

That is the contention of Queenie Smith, who is starred in The Street Singer, the new musical comedy, which will be presented by the Messrs. Shubert at the Majestic Theatre, for one week commencing tomorrow evening. Frank Bacon's Lightnln and Joseph Jefferson's Rip Van Winkle were notable exceptions. admits Miss Smith, but even Mr. Bacon spent a Thespian lifetime before finally reaching his great characterization.

I really have great faith in the formula of playing many parts and feel that the director should be persuaded to cast you In many various roles, even those you do not like. While this procedure may not work in all rases, its results on the art of Miss Smith have manifested themselves In the numerous successes In which she has appeared. When In her early teens, she took up dancing and rose eventually to the heights of premiere danseuse at the Metropolitan Grand Opera House in New York. Eddie Leonard destroyed the Illusion that she had reached the zenith of her stage career by inducing her to desert. the Metropolitan for the wider field of musical comedy.

She was given the part of a demure little girl in Roly-Boly-Eyes atjd enjoyed it Immensely. "I was so proper and refined. sh recalls, "and I fairly loved the part, but then I got into Orange Blossoms' and some other shows not so successful. I was given slapstick comedy roles and others that I detested, but I was bound by a contract and forced to play them I was discouraged for awhile, but later realized that it was all for tbe best. You can't have too many different characterisations you reap the benefit afterwards of your work under different directors and different methods.

I accepted many buffoon roles, against my better judgment, but soon awoke to the fact that my own stock was rising proportionately with the public. Now I am having the time of my life cutting capers In The Street Singer, and find my prea-nt role-one of the most delightful of all lv ever played." i i a Final rehearsals are now In progress for Katharine Cornell's new play, The Barretts of Wtmpole Street." In addition to Miss Cornell, the cast Includes Brian Aherne, Charles Waldron, Brenda Forbes, Margaret Whitehead. Dorothy Mathews. John Seymour. John Buckle and Oswald Marshall.

Openings of the Wee MONDAY, JANUARY 1J 'PHILIP GOES FORTH. A new play by George Kelly, Presented by Laurence Rivers, at the Biltmors Theatre. Staged by the author. The cast Includes Thais Lawton, Dorothy Stick-ney, Thurston Hall, Marlon Barney, Cora Witherspoon, Harry Ellerbe. Madge Evans, Harry Greaham, Harold Webster, Ralph Urmy, Mary Gildea and Donna Paadeloup.

Settings by Henry Dreyfus 'SITA. The long-delayed premiere of Siair Kumar Bhadurt and his Hindu company from Calcutta. A play adapted from the Ramayana, an old Hindu epic. Presented by the India Society of America at. the Vanderbilt Theatre.

TUESDAY, JANUARY IS TOMORROW AND TOMORROW. A play by Philip Barry. Presented by Gilbert Miller at the Henry Miller Theatre. Staged by Gilbert' Miller. The cast includes Herbert Marshall, Zita Johann, Osgood Perkins, John T.

Doyle, Harvey Stephena Mary Elizabeth Forbes, Eileen Byron and others. FRIDAY, JANUARY IS ANATOL. A revival of the Arthur Schnitzler comedy, with Joseph Schlldkraut in the title role. Presented by Bela Blau at the Lyceum Theatre. Adapted by H.

Granville-Barker. The east include Miriam Hopkins, Patricia Colllnge. Walter Connolly. A (in Forrest, Ruthelma Stevens, Dennis Moore and others. Staged by Gabriel Beer-Hofmann.

She plays a leading role in George kellys new, play, Philip Goes Forth, coming to the Biltmore Theatre tomorrow evening..