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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • 30

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I '1 1 i 4 i a tv-' fv i ik gronJof -w- i BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE NEW YORK io b-c ft' ft Pemiialiiies of the Stage and the Screen find "Tidings Vi 1 1 I I I I BERKEtEX SQUAnE- COUES TO TUB UySir nirtCtSs? MEN IN WHITE it 1'A ti K3ry-f'-i-- Beckhard Is Back Refreshed After Long Summer Vacation aa Duma' cough -ridden heroine ran for five weeka Incidentally If you preee Beckhard hard enough ms day toward tha end of September aome weeka after the official atari of the theatrical season Arthur Beckhard celebrated tn theee parte aa the producer of "Another Language" Again" and one or two other plays arrived at the Orand Central Station from certain point east Turning northward by taxi to hla office In HtbBt he murmured teraely If nm with erlgnallty "So tbla la Although thla waa the atraet where he customarily laborg bt tha cauae of the drama he had not laid eyea upon it abuse that July torrid apell which cauaed the local dtiaenry to inquire earaeetly of one another if it waa hot enough for them From the taxicab window Mr he win admit that for one week he acted In "Ooodbye under the name of George Spelvln A pretty hectic Summer with Beckhard daahlng from one rehearsal to another from West Falmouth to Boston and back again He conferred with authors 1 and worked with them on their scripts ha telephoned to casting agents play brokers and actors tn New Tort he worked with hla directors Several times he was seen consulting with a garage repairman tha subject being whether there was something wrong with a car In which It took him two hours to travel to Boston MEET THE BARON wm wto vated site sS 'ill Jgtre ji toto (HZ ldw JUB WUl 'A six enUaasMf GeUsckaU luJtti Hewed CeUia XsilAJofceiiea end fAmU Tmylor es iftey seem to fks carnal Rafis CUjr ike pefwfer play at Fm jeperaffNg iwem seme ewe its meat Weld In 'Men BrmdhmrU Theater noat wUl be tbs It Hudson Theater Is A Beehive Again It: Is Nothing to NeWl Films -Occupy -CentuiTScreens I Uhyiid'd- Arllaa to and vA CtoOTRQ 1 Eight Bells Has London Director RKQjLocal Houses mWtidtMey Omitted? lW- I £5 would be obliged to stay late to finish tha drees would be forced to break a date with her sweetheart and would thus have 'her future seriously altered If not wrecked A peep Into the establishment of the caterer who was to serve the dinner was also considered- "So many of these Urns suggested said Mr Kaufman "that we wen obliged to hew terribly close to tha line Otherwise there would have been no end to the play Tbo plotting and the arrangement tlof the sequence or acenea of Georgs fill's Kaufman rand Kdna Ferbert vi at at tha Ma jestic Theater this week proved to jftee i "Charlie: Chan's Chsiteit Ckr in which Warner Otand int u-peam aa tha fiusens Chinm 4 tectlya -is the current Rnen fct turn at tha a Pnamd tod on Bush wirt and TCjob theatn' In addition to this tajaaj ton thesetheateis are offnint a ama program Wh DbncfVTm Uttis 3 During tha last hdftf fin ths Prospect BbdiM Bodnri iitfdn jpsetien ctow ilte TJ Frank Gregory a London stags director Is In New Tort to stags two productions for A Bluman-thaL The first Is "Eight which opened last night at the Hudson and the other is "Fresh Both are now current In London and the latter boasts of the longest run there "Fresh Fields" Is due here In about six weeks Mr Gregory a neat little man about the business of directing a play with less fanfare than many of his American contemporaries HO puts the noise into tha play and not Into hla private life "Eight Bells" ban perhaps more rough and ready moments than any -of the new productions and yet during the rehearsals Mr Gregory never lifted Ms voice above a mild stage whisper The mutiny of the sailors and the expert throwing of knives was rehearsed with nary an outburst from the soft-spoken Englishman "The actan ars'glvtng the per- be the most dlfflcult tadt which 'iWluA ever engaged the attention of of the authonTf'! IgMSilto thoSewho have already seen read the piece know the central Idea la concerned with behind-the-scenes' happenings in connection 'wlth a smau dinner party on Part IAve' Thei audience 'aeeathe planning of the party in the first acmia Then tt Is given little peeps the private Uvea of all oarnad Including the 'sonants In lthe Jordan -bouaehold who wib eventually cook end servo the At first the1 authora decided to go beyond the limits in which they AD Jmek Fswf (Btrmm Mssciia- Malswpeltons tow ay ns) to da Jean Pariur in fWbet Price Inno-cenoe" am the duel attractions from today' to Tuesday at tbs Century Circuit's Patio Theater In FlatbutiL During tha last' half of tho week the Patio W1U present "Mary fits-sens andTThs Secret of the 'Blue Room-' W1U Iteget latest-' may be men currently at ths Klngsway Theater It Will be fo lowed on Wednesday toy Greatest and "Brief At the Avalon Theater tha current feature ROnald Ooi-maii to During tho lasthalf of the week rrutn Back tlia -dock? '-and: "SdUtalm Man" will ho shown at thla henee Loretta Young toBDorMad to Bay YesI and mylng DevUa may be seen today to Tuesday atth Albemarle Theater Those' attrao-tiona win bo followed on Wednesday by "Gold Diggers of IMS' a "Morning Glory" starring Katherine Hepburn' and Again" am tho dual features today to TWway at tho Marino Theater During the last half of tbe wesk tho Marino wm offer Vottalm" and "Bho Bad to say Yea'f? may bsaeen also at tha lCdwood Theater-where It currently being ritown to eonjune- rThe number of persons interested In the details of a collaboration apparently is legion For their ln formation the fact may be recorded that every single line In "Dinner at Bight" was written with both authors actual consultation Miss Berber did mast of the typing Mr Kaufman wandered hither thither and you or draped himself and under or around such pieces of defenselem furniture as happened to be In the room "Most of the speeches confided Mias Berber "We'd wander all over the boom deciding upon positions and wo didn't spare our voices In dramatic leenes One of my maids and the lawn are atm I cared for my todu -Mf '-risen ft 'jds 'riff The Hudeon Theater has became pexhape the moee active theater in Hot aince $be days of the late Henry Harris when ten road hows and three ibr tour mad productions wem superintended from the1 second floor officee has tha Hudson been lively Flret William Harris Jr again in tha ring wlth ni "Three and One" which (Vena tonight at the Longacre is at tha business of preparing one at two mom'-produo tlona Again Howard Schnebbe general manager for tha lata Henry brother of William la at the helm Lika the olden days! 7- Second -A Blumenthal moyed hla staff bag and baggage to the Hudson a stag: including Alice Foole Ferny Thomas Jack Kelly and Joseph Barry of the late Florena Zlegfeld menage along with hla genual manager Charles Hertsman and hla preee department Three efflcee am devoted to the Blumenthal enterprises Mr Blumenthal Is to operate the Hudson Theater for Ms production of "Bight Bells" Frank- Gregory English dimeter who staged "light also has a -Hudson office which at (ho moment la devoted to the next Blumenthal offering Fields the Itor Novrilo play' new enjoying the yAniifln run ts to appear In "Fresh Besides this Harry Askln representing several theaters has 'a sanctum' at the Hudson And the Treasurers club Is harbored there In short the old 44th fit tempi Is a beehlxs Even the threasurer thorn box office lads am on their toes since the stage aa well as the Hudson has taken fresh loam on Broadway-jf'yjYf'-- and Tllyou will to "Doctor with On im wlfiki and Tllyou afitrtE MomenT to addrion to fin Nr plctumajf-- vfe-A-- "Doctor Uttto Plgk' win totem ite tha Kenmora of Djl theater during ths first ton at week Beginning Wedmaby to thoatem win pnient "Chart Chaah Greateri Cam uf "Bri i And' VorgoW: Past srt the dost feature at tt Orphemn today to to'-day when they will tofeOseedt end "Her tofenf AtfhsBKXXghonRt "Penthouse" eqd I dayb attmettona finally- Mid their play For m-stance they riannad a scene Chow-ng the ehaufleurs who brought the gueota-engaged in conversation think a little suspicious about our formiince mnlty I casually to Mr Blumenthal "Every- thing will be Just perfect1 For three weeks he had the Hud- the sidewalk outside This waa dls pearded as betag too IrrelevantThen they: toyed tor a time with the of Showing what happened in the dressmaking -aaUI one of (he guests had or-a gown to he worn at the Qoe of (be WKWhera dered WARWICK-Today "The Bong of 1 Monday and Tuesday rwhat Fries Innocence" Wednesday and Thursday "One Sunday Afternoon and JJTbe Avenger? Square9 Now On Musie Hall Screen "Berkeley Square" now In Its first popular-priced run at tha Hadlo City Muslo Hall to demonstrating ones mme that a tender and dramatic love story played by attmettm' and popular stars is i tremendous magnet With the fseidnsting Lewile Howard and lovely English Heather Angel so-starred this Laeky pro- duetion for Fqx la attracting large nda to the sroridh largest theater John play tells of a love etery that knew bound of nelther time por one of the moat unique the talking pictures ham yet- told-BuppofUng iHowud and Miss Angela am Valeric Taylor Irena Browne Beryl Mercer Colin Keith-Johnson Juliette Compton and David Tonencai'-tA'''a Frank Uoyd eemen ematcr -of directed Terkeley tor Mr Lasky Irl BEOOKLYNrVAMUfiEMENTS-'BMOIID hi) i mm AMU SgMtNTg-MANHATTAN id AMUBEMENTBMANHATTAN -Oa A tort fDINNCRlCUlB iliu a tot 'Afb 53 Yl rite a ah Vof aatJ: toaonri Vyoi 'lls WUl -inns rt Ot tb atl adk tun to osn i tided ACTORS' earsemr ssoirra sen Theater to 1 wry granpa wen rdieanlng In the foyer others on the stage end some in the making roomi He hag two toristanta "Ifs a boiling melodrama" Mr Gregory told an Interviewer la Ustas-WeU not to let ths actors know what they are in Tide by way of explaining the scattering of the troupe- This noted 'director staged the London "light and his endeavors Included "Chris fat Knows" "Lon-don Goes Nextr "Tin Gods" and'aTotlphar's wife" Inasmuch as Mr jq tends to produce in a bigger and better way this eeaum i ho has in the put (at least three dramas ONE SUNDAY i AFTERNOON wttb UOTB NOtAW 4enwmiTTHBATBIBwetM JAGE5P UIS OAV fe jf i TONIGHT AT 8:31 sala moat or nu HU exAsmr prices i ie ST lawiwl SUVi Mu Star BM-OMlwaaS MeV lew CM ttSSDlDLi snw jW-''noeimit nouu jwssats SAllORBEWAREfeT nu vraoABsouu haval oomarj ivacuM viMk ea asrs see Haw miaaoAT see BATnaoAT sue me BusciioM bas MAt iroT na Wiiw-VriM VMw'BWm JsMphlee Mn Hair tnrt Mmtm A DIVINE DRUDGE Beckhard ohaerved numerous signs announcing plays that wem blmady running and plays that wem to come Yet though was late September Mr Beckhbrd was not the least bit troubled He was not aa far behind -as would appear at caiual If ha bad not produced any plays on Broadway he waa at least ready Afttymgh ha had spent tha Summer rubbing elbows with other vacationists down But ho himself had not been on a holiday Ha had merely been tolling In another vineyard while tired refugees from the weltering cities wem sleeping blankets (X marks our mom wUh yon wem with ui) he had been toiling far Into tho night For two months he reports with a bit of swagger ho had dept leas than four hours a night also under blankets To people around Times Square who had -been wondering whatever be-of that fellow Beckhard he could now report that ha bad tried out seven now plays and re-staged two old ones He had a brief earn full of scripts a Sheaf at notes about actors and a mind full of plans And same of ths plans warn pretty wen advanced as witness the fact that within ten days he waa In rehearsal with hla first production "Spring In comedy from ths Spanish of Martinos Sierra with Blanche Yurka as the star' This play began a preliminary engagement last Monday night in Philadelphia and win open an Broadway on Tuesday night of this week Ten days la a pretty short time in which to get a play ready' for rehearsal what with casting soenery script changes and so on Hut "Spring in was (his time new play "it hod had two weeka of tryout first at West Falmouth Marik and than at ths Tramont Theater Boston All that remained was to make few east changes polish up the eript turn and them and attend to eomo business details Tho ground warb having been laid only two weekg of rehearsal was scheduled For Summer prior to his first Broadway venture Beckhard had hla own Summer thgater one at Woodstock and tha next at Greenwich TMa year ha had an arrangement with Robert Barn and Bd ward Choate -who operated The Beach Theater at West Falmouth on -Oapa God-whereby he ZAwnra 1DNA MM OilYQ '(V'iH-nO MUIY 1-CT o-i vim aAtns aas soHM ooimii BOX ALB TUKATBS 4S St CHMHM and two musicals am on hls sched-ule) Mr Gregory ls resigned to year in Hew ToriL- Fan THE BQWERrBH Sw HaUaws WA aaS Sat BLANCHE T01IA SPRING IN AUTUMN ltd' mM atrataa ui RMMfi ft xwax ULLSB'S TktaKa 1M W4S SL Una Site Hattasw TBani a Sat SS 1- HommnnMK AHsiWILDERNESSI "''-wmf-auonim sf coaan onu nxA- ssa mwMjry utbms state THUBBBST aaS SATPSPAT SSI Beginning tomorrow at 10 am an entirely new burlesque fare will be unfolded on the stage of Billy Mteskyh Brooklyn Theater It is titled "Let 'Em Kt Strudel" and In It a galaxy of burlesque players will appear in a melange of mirth: song and danoe Direct from the World's Fair in Chicago comes Aim Norton who will offer a cycle of ones and Two combined show arr presented on tho etagu-evuyfiatur day midnight and today them ts continuous performance fnxn noon tm TEN MINUTE AUBI Mm WiMwaa Mn Oi WEBB sssaiLxn MILLER nun BRODERICK AS THOUSANDS CHEER "ifeet tht win mixture of comedy lilting musical numbers and spectacular color serves to bring to ttie semen Jack FhuV the famous Mun-of radio whOL with Jimmy (Bchnnasle) Ihnante goes through series of beetle 'Xn addition to Foaif and Durante tha oast includea Basu Pltto Ted Bealy and hla hilarious- stooges VALRNCU Aaikt lW CLATOXTTB COIMMT Vi on sxAon or waa' v-Mfd Maiunni loners srr 1 TaiiwTiriw tip LOXWW BARsIoatM ns nuoN HASnesv sist v-ft' nui-m Lonvrs rartot VALxma it hit' LoswwnnroonTBiavw asiarteiwsion am smm Lonrs CXNTURX Haalrand-VIUUaBaMM Pllaea KUM Leert ri kitei RL TkaanW iiia ea am la ana an wad a guenon nag matom Tam no tm WATERS: aueie sea rauTsa ts sl ati yaesaaAX a MTssaav set t- -'-5 t1 lonvrs BBDVORB lobww AMnoTit va- HE CURTAIN RISES nOUBLEDOOR-l' St I TOO -MUCH HAWSOKT i --'Ma rkarv-HWtnurt Lonre mklba LMBCataB-Ranona Lonvrs ALPINX seta and Fifth LOBWS 4STI ST-44tart Utiaabt -QPkPfg aBAwnnii Tiaar erf" -WBAauH'a nan hbahix 4aaw nomr Hsa nvaiMwpw bits na sl sea in an am 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Herbert RmnKmesLenna aas nmi WALua rwAt e45tb Vi ns fwart rtrtwn YOUNG 5 (SEWS HER: MASTER'SVOICE ir i Em iAto to Jtl Tim AW Blanch biting Crm'Mi Cart IH1' TM- TBBATBB lrtLrtXmMw)rtTlHriliU 14VS Flartwh 'iiLlbi ws Mrt H-o-iri fft II to 1 IWl tote 4 (a tote 7 tod to it Ad yam Eto Yte te rtTHOnra am am at as vwr XW SMi SbUaaao Tfcaia eaLSsW aimns sacTMX atO ataoihad a producing arangement with the Tremont Theater- Boston Rem is a llt of tha plays he tried at West Fslufouth: "Etienne" by Jacques DevaL Tried out again recently at Jackson Heights by Morris Green and Rank McCoy "Zwaa Waiting for adapted from th Rand of Jacques Natan-on by Mrivnia Baker Owned by Mr Choate the above-mentioned Ubs produced by him shortly 4th eckhard as dimeter by Albert and Ed win Barker first tried a year ago by Mr Beckhard af Nysck New York and considerably revised stem then us fate Is uncertain- with mere mvtaten now under way- -r "By Your by Gladys Hurl but and Bums Weller which waa Played for a week at 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tt must bo mentioned that ha offered "Goodbye in Boston and also! auxtrukw nut reumr nm am mm5 WfiL rvrgff ALaVS: Altai rnar raoirxoT eta m-sm at JKriry nsn tA' oowl ty a axis i guiaim wasiL hart SOS rton'v 2 rTLt Mil cook 1 or noMMN "WALLS courr -AHko at olayi oro ooyortoS Uloro tho om Io aver I taosa-mt -Mn la Wktta' rtM toy to Iko faUtait' Prloa sn Jfr- I iw-rpr -T-! 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