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TrtE PRTKOiT FREE PRESS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 19 EVEN BLACK FACE CANT ECLIPSE SKILL OF ETHEL BARRYMORE PART POtMfr Plays Part Earnestly. And Then Again- Is Verdict of Mantle G. SHAW if 3 -V. and reached the audience unmls-takeably. Two New Comedies Appear.

A couple of promising fun plays appeared this week. "This Is New York" was the best of them. "Oh, Promise Me," a rowdy farce, second best. "This Is New York" was written by the Robert Emmet Sherwood who did "The Road to Rome" and likewise "The Queen's Husband," a healthy satirist with respect for the verities. Taking as his them the familiar defiance of the hinterland Visitor.

"New York is a nice olace II i 11 I a m. l-MPf SUA 1 I "IWALLACE FORD HSlPfSSJUfiY I- fJ SINNERS h- Old Tragedian Now in Mission MRS. FISKE IN MODERNCOMEDY Wl JOAN LOWELL -ww the smallest monthly output sines August. ALTHOUGH William A. Brady, Sr, can srarcely be called aa apostle of optimism In the theater, or outside, he manages to get jut about a many lucky "breaks" as any of his managerial brethren.

Mr. Brady is owner of the Playhouse, which he built almost a score of years ago, and that has been about aa consistent a money getter as most of the Manhattan theaters. He is now being credited with iiis third successive "money to be housed in this theater. It Is "The Vinegar Tree," which has Mary Boland as its principal player and which, interestingly enough, is produced by Dwight Deere Wiman, who until recently was a partner of William A. Brady, Jr.

The Playhouse successes immediately preceding "The Vinegar Tree" wre "Street Scene" and "The First Mrs. Fraser." INCIDENTALLY, the piece called "Mrs. Cook's Tour," that was written for and tried out by Miss Boland, has been indefinitely postponed, owing to the success she is enjoying in her new vehicle. SONG WRITERS TROOP BACK TO OLD BROADWAY Cutting; Expenses in Studio Causes Exodus From Hollywood. New York, Dec.

It Melody Lane, Tin Pan Alley, or whatever you like, It never before looked so good to so many song writers as It does today. And If It Isn't always ths Road to Riches, It at at offers shelter and companionship for a lot of tha tune tinkercrs who hopefully turned their backs on Broadway not so long ago, and beaded for the Gold Coast, otherwise the film studios in California. The rush to the west was due to the introduction of musical films, that were expected to revolutionize the industry. There waa a pot of gold waiting for the composer who could write a good theme song, and quite a number of them collected. But tha musical films didnt register aa heavily as was anticipated, or there were toa many of them all at once.

At any rate, when the economy wave struck the west eoajt the song writers wars among the first to be dispensed with. As a result they have come trooping back to Broadway, in the hope of making connections of some sort, pending the day, maybe, when they will once more be in demand around the picture studios; for the nlm producers have not abandoned the idea that sometime screen musi cal comedies will have another vogue. Greek Comedy Sets Record New York, Dec. With "Lysis. trata" well past its 200th New Yerk performance, some interesting facts regarding: the engagement that promises to continue indefinitely are provided by Gilbert Seldes.

who did the adapting from Aristophanes. First of all, this is tha longest run the play ever bad. and in all probability the longest run that ear Greek play ever experienced. It has already been seen by more people than made up the entire population of Athens when the piece wss given its first production in ancient Greece. And it has run longer than any of Shakespeare's works have ever done in New York, doubling the duration of John Barrymores "Hamlet" that made theatrical history.

Junior Davis Turns Actor New York, Dec. 8. Owen Davis, is to appear as guest player ia "Is Zat So?" with a company in St. Louis. He is also to appear" in several cities in "Young Sinners" and later will be seen in a new play, 'Idle Tongues," which will be tried out in the middle west.

ONE WEEK BEGINNING MON. DEC. 8 EVENINGS $130 WEDNESDAY SUT. ts S1.50 SATURDAY MAT 50e $2.00 fwo Comedies That Are Boisterous and Rough Off to a Good Start. BY BURNS MANTUE.

yew York, Dec. Cor- -iou couia ten it Ethel Barrymore when she gwung Into the first act of "Scarlet ciJtf Mary" by the twist of her houlders and the slightly conscious tilt 01 gut if you were unfamiliar with these characteristics you never would have sus pected it. Blacked up, pjirrvmore 1 comes as much Smith or a jonea as any of us. When this Barrym ore spoke, however, even though the voice was more hoarse than usual, you knew "ughterVthe Burn. Mantle Drew that she is.

When she spoke, loo, Sister Mary took on a much greater Importance than she really oejerves as a heroine of drama. Play Is Fretty Sllnrt. Lift Miss Barrymore out of the part and you take from the play even the slight claim to recognition it commands, for without her becomes an essentially unimportant and fairly trivial recital of faith and romance among the Gul-laij blacks, with Its appeal limited to that public sympathetically Interested in the Gullahs. Which Is to gay that the art of narrative that won for Julia Peterkln the Pulitzer prize for her novel cannot be successfully transferred to the theater, where actions speak ever ao much louder than words. Still this moat Important first right of her recent career was something of a triumph for Ethel Barrymore.

She had come to town doubtfully after weeks on the road that were gratifying financially, but not too encouraging artistically. had weakened in Detroit and canceled matinees and night performances to save herself for the Broadway ordeal, and she knew the audience, although friendly, was fringed with those who rather expected her to fall, and professional reviewers about whom she had been quoted as saying mean things. The audience continued friendly and the reviews, while none was rhapsodic, were fair and unbiased. A Successful Debut The Introduction of Ethel Barrymore Colt was also accomplished successfully. Daughter does not appear until the last act.

Then she enter! hesitantly aa Seraphlne, Sister Mary's second child. You might reasonably say that from the fourth row Ethel Jr. Is more a Colt than a Barrymore; round of face, moderately stocky of build, a well poised suburb missing the eager nervous-Bess of her actor kin. She was visibly excited under her Marl! makeup, but once through the reception, she went capably sheaj wilh the scene. In the play, Sister Mary's Seraphlne Is begging her chance for happiness with a city lover.

And Sister Mary, her own faith shaken and her distorted philosophy of life confused, bids the girl co and extract such happiness as che can find from life. Might have happened that way when Ethel Jr. asked to go on the Slate, Might be that the actress mother, though Inordinately proud of her family line, was still painfully conscious of a changing theater and hitter disappointments she would save her girl If she could. Yet she had the sense and the murage to give the child her chance. I think she need not worry.

Ethel Jr. will have her try at the life (he has heard discussed ail her years, and probably tire of it. A little while, a few parts, a lot of hard work and she will be married and settled and that will be thai. Mi? Barrymore, playing with a defiant earnestness and an apparent belief In her chosen character, was In'ense and moving In most of her scenes; the appeal that is hers shone through makeup and play LOW PRICE POLICY FOR SCANDAL." -By LEN ALTHOUGH long ago gave up, despairingly, all attempts to Interpret ths managerial mind, there come orcasinnnl incidents which to our way of thinking help to answer ths ever recurring question of "What's) wrong with the theater?" One of throw waa provided In the visit last week of George M. Cohan in his delightful satirical comedy, "The Tavern." By all the rules of the theatrical game, such a combination should i have drawn good houses.

Mr. Co-; han is among our foremost expon ents of the art he has brightened since boyhood, and "The Tavern" is by no means unknown, even if it 1 has not been seen for a few sea sons. The engagement was much less successful than Mr. Cohan or his host of well-wishers must have desired, and tha fault can be laid squarely at the door not of the actor or his show, but of those who placed the print of admission above reason, especially in such times as these. THERE IS no lack of patrons who would gladly attend the spoken drama If it was slaced with- i in their means.

Proof of this is found in the fact that while "The Tavern" as good entertainment today as it ever was, and done admirably by Mr. Cohan and a judiciously selected cast waa being performed to empty spaces, "Young Sinners," played at a figure within reach of the masses who too often ara forced to find diversion elsewhere because of financial limitations, thrived handsomely, and n.nt its crowds out. to becomx rlnnncnr emissaries In behalf of tha theater. It all goes back to the trite but iMuwpmaoie merchandising truism that satisfied customers are the best advertisement and the more of them that can be brought to the theater, the better It is for the future of the drama. THE COMINcTof Mrs.

Fike to the Wilson this week in "Ladles of the Jury" recalls the fact that this gifted actress might have been an adopted Detrolter if she had not ami-iea ner stage career so early In life, or if. even after h.r before the footlisrhts. she ha fit to tarry here long enough to establish some claim to a permanent residence. Mrs. Flake was born In New Orleans, when her father.

Thomas Davey, actor and theatrical manager, and his wife, Minnie Maddern Davey, actress and musician, and two other Maddern sisters who had accompanied their father, Richard Maddern, a concert singer from England, to America, were trouping through the south. Eleven years later young Minnie Maddern, who made her stage debut as quickly aa she could walk, and was given child parts1 almost as soon as she could talk. wn gathering glory as an actress on the roaa, when her father settled in Detroit as manager of the old De troit opera house, a post he held for tnree years to the time of his death, if memory can be trusted. MRS. FISKE played Sybil In "A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing" when she was four; Prince Arthur in "King John" when she was eight; the Duke of York in "Richard III," the crowned child in "Macbeth" and others almost before she had attained her teens.

When she was sixteen Minnie Maddern made her debut as a star at the head of her own company In Abbey's Park theater. New York, as the soubrette. Chip, in "Fogg's Ferry," a popular comedy drama of the day. She was hailed as one of the most promising girls on the American stage, and all the predictions made regarding her future have been amply fulfilled In the long and distinguished list of characters she has contributed to the theater. ROADWAY faces the leanest week of a comparatively lean season, with but a single new show scheduled.

This is "The New York- era," a musical revue promoted by c. nay uoetz, ano containing a list of performers that reminds one of a theatrical blue book in its lighter lines. However, the departures are leas numerous than has been the case in recent weeks, so the average is but slightly impaired. Some two do2en productions are scheduled for December, making it, according to Broadway statisticians. npson Cherry 2110 tfhc MRS.

(J) gi to visit, but I wouldn't live there If you gave me the place," Mr. Sherwood brings a pompous prairie puiiuuian i rum one 01 me uaitouw and embroils him, through his daughter, in a typical Broadway love nest scandal. Senator Krull is the type of westerner who would, he tells the press, be greatly relieved if New York should decide to secede from the Union. It is a pest hole, a sink of iniquity, a breeding spot ol lawless- 1 ness, corruption, and crime, and the country's curse. He comes east i with his D.

A. R. wife, a baritone club woman of high principles and forbidding approach, to lecture. He finds certain scandal sheets printing the rumor of his daughter Emma's engagement to Joe Ores-ham, a Broadway playboy of some notoriety. The Krulls are horrified and apprehensive.

Such an alliance might easily cost the senator Therefore, the banns are forbidden and the young playboy shown the door. Daughter Emma, however, Is eastern by education, and broad-minded. She Is satisfied to make up her own mind about Joe. What worries her is that Phyllis Adrian for whom Joe admits he has been paying rent and who Is now demanding $100,000 blackmail. Emma thinks she had better call on and have a talk with that young woman, 1 She calls, and that night the doped mistress of a racketeer living on the floor above throws herself out the window and is killed.

The racketeer, at the moment, happens to be visiting Phyllis. The police arrive and they are all held as material witnesses, Including the senator's daughter. A Pretty Mess. This makes a pretty mess. The newspapers, both lurid and weasel, are smeared with it.

Which defeats the blackmail pint and gives the senator pause. Again Emma, a better politician than her pop, takes charge of the situation. Satisfied as to his fundamental goodness, Emma will marry Joe, take him west, buy him a ranch and a ten-gallon hat, toss him into the ring to help re-eleot the senator and then when everything Is nicely set in Dakota, Emma and Joe will trot right back to New York and live in East Seventy-second street. "This Is New York" has the tang of truth and the grip of plausibility. Its dialoguo Is tersely written and naturally spoken, though it does grow a bit rhetorical occasionally, as it must with a booming Brook-hartBorah-Heflin senator present, and the wholesome west vs.

the effete east argument to sustain. The cast introduces Lois Moran, once of fame In the movies, now and for some time to come, I suspect, of the articulate drama. Miss Moran, unaffected, pretty, a thoroughly honest and charming young person, scored unmistakably. So did Robert T. Haines, a lifelike senator of the bombastic type, Goeffrey Kerr as the playboy, and Audray Dale as the blackmail lady.

Another Backet Exposed. "Oh, Promise Me" Is also as New Yorkish as Texas Guinan's night club. Written by Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson, It seeks to expose the breach of promise racket that has grown prodigiously. with hideaways, speakeasies, and prohibition. It is also utterly braien in exposure and language, one of the rowdier and ruddier farce comedies that angles boldly for laughs and cares not a bit whether they are legitimately or Illegitimately earned.

Here we have a self-made lawyer of shyster leanings who has just been through a sensational murder trial and ts hungry for another case as sensational. The young girl who is in love with him, and eager to help him' to fame, is also a filing Continued on Page Five. FOURTH BIG WEEK -TONIGHT SUN. Uptown Biw Offlcs. Mot.

810. Mi Mr 4 CICTCDC The Riming JUIUINJ rarce Triual Durante Otn. Motors Bids. IIQIGI UUieuUdi DirruBJnHB.es. 'III Robert Long; Time Matinee Idol, in New Role.

Washington, Dec. 8. Robert Downing, old-time tragedian, and for many years a leading; matinee Idol, is playing a role far removed from those with which he thrilled and delighted theatergoers of another generation. As leading man for Mary Anderson, and later as a star In his own right, Downing traveled up and down the land in classic and romantic roles "In-gomar," "Othello," "The Gladiator," and others that stamped him as a forceful actor. Then Downing dropped from view In his accustomed places, to gain passing mention a few years ago when it was announced that he had forsaken the stage to become a traveling evangelist.

The wise ones smiled and shook their heads. It was merely a passing notion. But it wasn't. Not only did Downing continue as a preacher of the gospel, but he met with success, in his quiet way. Today he ministers to ths spiritual and material welfare of whoever will in a gospel mission in John Marshall Place, a quiet side street in the downtown district not far from the capltol.

He is happy in his work, which includes a nightly talk to the down-and-outers, and a lot of others, who flock to the mission. 'Hard Times' Gags Are Out New York, Dec. 8. The use of any reference to "hard times," whether i I'1 uc lu" "i pun or not, on the stages of houses of enter! i to nwnuuu uuit uy I.rvVJ. The circuit's stand was evidenced In a letter to agents telline them to notify their acts to refrain from gagging about depression and linking President Hoover's name with it in any way.

RKO is opposed to acts using its stages for remarks on depressing conditions, feeling that audiences seek entertainment and not reminders of what they wish to forget. It stands on the mentioning of Hoover's name is caused by its undignified use by many acts. New Plays Are Early Promise When "Young Sinners" concludes ita limited engagement at the Lafayette, where it is proving so popular, other attractions new to Detroit will follow. The first to be announced is "Stepping Sisters," a comedy dealing with the experiences of a trio of ex-burlesque queens when they attempt to forsake their past lives and Impress society. Another early booking is.

rorcn song, recently produced by Arthur Hopkins In New York. 'June Moori Is Cass Booking "June Moon," the gay piece by Ring Lardner and George S. Kauf man that deals with the tribulations iand the love affairs of a lvric writ cr in Broadway's Tin Pan Alley, rompH tn th ata Siinitoi, comes to the Cass Sunday, January 21. It is based on Mr. Lardncr's brittle and amusing short story, "Some Like Them Cold," and scintillates with wit such as the experienced would expect from Messrs.

Lardner and Kaufman. Sam Harris is sending "June Moon" to Detroit, which is ample guarantee of an excellent production. ease of "Her Man" and "Minn and Bill," the former stage, star has become one of the most sought after actresses in Hollywood. In both pictures she gave such outstanding portrayals of a fallen woman that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer signed her for a similar role in Eugene Wal ters "The Easiest way." This is the picture which will star Constance Bennett and feature such a supporting cast as Adolphe Menjou, Clark Gable, Robert Motgomery, Anita Pase, Clara Blandick, J. Far- i tell MacDonald and Johnny Harron.

How about this for an all-star ca.t? i Incidentally, it appears that Miss i Rambeau is to make hT screen i reputation as a "horuble example." RIMOR. There is a rumor In the air that Corrine Griffith, who is now in New Vrtrl annn return hi Hnllvwood I to siim a s'arrir. contract with I I "Ladies of the Jury" Brings Star Sheridan Play Is Revived. "Ladles of the Jury," regarded as one of Mrs. Fieke most brilliant comedy successes, opens an engagement of one week at the Wilson Monday evening, with Mrs.

Fiske In the leading role. The play is the work of Fred Ballard, and has as its theme the "mixed" jury- six men and as many women empaneled to sift evidence and render a verdict in the trial of a young woman accused of murder. The trial, however. Is merely Incidental, Interest centering In the proceedings of the Jury after it had been locked up, and the amusing and amazing developments in the jury-room. Mrs.

Fiske's role Is that of a wealthy society woman serving for the first time as a juror. Although admitting that she knows little about the case, she Is convinced of the innocence of the defendant. The manner In which she brings the obstinate eleven around to her way of thinking; how she cajoles them, traps them, resorts to harsh means, and eventually gets the verdict she wants, provides the substance of the play, which has been written understandlngly, as well as from a desire to provoke laughter. It was staged by Harrison Grey Fiske, and is sponsored by George C. Tyler.

Comedy Is Revived. "The School for Scandal," Richard Brinslcy Sheridan's comedy, will be revived at the Detroit Civic theater, Monday night, with Joan iowell as the sprightly Lady Teaile. The role is a meaty one, and has had the attention of many of the foremost actresses on both sides of the world. Miss Lowell will be supported by Walter Sherwln as Sir Peter Teazle, George Macready as Charles Surface, Hunter Gardner as Joseph Surface, and Emily Ross as the beautiful Maria. Joan Madison is to have the role of Lady Sneerwell, John Griggs will be Sir Benjamin Backbite, Kalman Matus Sir Oliver Surface, and Eugene Weber, Carbtree.

The engagement is for one week only. "Young Hinners" Prospers. "Toung Sinners" enters its fourth week at the Lafayette tonight, with Wallace Ford and Marjorie Peter son as the young folks about whom th action centers. The Shubert production of the Elmer Harris comedy of rip-roaring youth in some of Its wildest moments, and the reduced prices at which It is being shown, has resulted in heavy attendance at every performance. In spite of this fct, the engagement is limited, due to previous contracts, and new productions arriving for the holiday season.

"Young Sinners" is the story of what befalls a son of a multimillionaire who has gone the pace when he is turned over to an Adirondack guide to be made Into a man. Walter Wilson gives an outstanding performance as the man-tamer. Screen Star to Appear on Stage New York, Dec. 6 The legitimate stage will soon gain another recruit from Hollywood in the person of Olive Borden, who is scheduled to appear in a play, "The Devil la a Lady," by Oarnett Weston and Garrett Fort. The company supporting Miss Borden, who, in so far as is known, has not acted previously on Broadway, will Include Frieda Inescort, Ara Gerald, Victor Morley, Leonard Willey and Edward Crandall, Lew Cantor will be the producer of "The Devil 13 a Lady." Critic Adapts Another Play New York, Dec.

6. "Collision." a play by Rudolph Lothar and Erno Sebesi, is announced for production by Gensler and Green. The play has been adapted for the American stage by John Anderson, dramatic critic of the Evening; Journal, who made the version of "The Inspector General," which is being produced by Jed Harris. "Collision' is ex-! pected to open here In January. SWEDISH PLAYSETS RECORD FOR LONG RUN Sodertelje.

Sweden, Dec. 6. (U A Swedi.ri plAr which has been performed 5.200 times Is "Lill- Anna Became a Queen," a comedy by Kari Keuipe, CIVIC Shuberts Will Invade Paris New York, Dee. 6. The Shuberts have engaged Marcel Pagnol, au thor of "Topaze" and "Marius," to adapt "Up Pops the Devil" for the trench stage.

It will be produced in Paris In the near future as the first of a series of plays translated from English which the Shuberts will manage. Pagnol will be the adapter of following pieces, and will direct "Up Pops the Devil." will be recalled that he made no less than eight pictures opposite Mary Astor. For Inn. ffn. jvj ts pair was regard ed as one of the most 1 a i teams in pictures.

Previously, Hughes was highly success ful when playing ads opposite such feminlno stars as Colleen i Moore, Corinne rilBth and Bil- is This waa jn me urn sllent movie davs. June Oliver. Miss Collyer, this will be her first appearance as a co-star. This young lady, who was a New York society debutante, has certainly made good in talking pictures. She is one of our most promising young actresses.

June and Lloyd will make the most popular romantic pair in Hollywood pictures. ARLISS COMIXG. That merry, Monocled gentleman. Mr. George Arllss, will a rrlve in Hollywood about the time St Nicholas is scheduled to make his appearance.

His early arrival is due to the fact that he has decided not to appear in a new stage play before coming to Hollywood. He is expected at Warner Brothers' studio in Hollywood within the next 30 days to start work on "The Ruling Passion." Alfred Green, who directed him in the prize-winning "Disraeli" and "Old English," will make his new film. "The Devil" will be Arliss' second vehicle this season. He has been spending his vacation In England and was there when the academy awarded him the prize for the best acting of the year, "I POPS DEVIL." No sooner does a play make a hit on Broadway these days than up comes some picture company and buvs it for picture purposes. Now Paramount ha3 popped up and bought "Up Pops the Devil" and 6 will transfer It Into a picture.

The production will be made in New York. Nancy Carr 11 and Fredric March are to be featured. March, however, is now working with Claudette Col bert and Charles gg 1 in an original story by Austin Parker. the title of which has just been changed from "Strictly Business" to "Sex in Business." Fredric March. that will have to be nnished before March can undertake the new role, that of an author.

A funny hitch has occurred in the making of the story. The wife in "l'p Pops the Devil," to be played by Miss Carroll, is supposed to be a member of the Roxy ensembie. but she will have to become a dancer in Publix revues, since Roxy am! Paramount, New York, are rivals. MARJORIE RAMBEAU. i 1 I lie 1 ,3 i IPS 4 THE SCHOOL What the Week Offers WILSON "LADIES OP THE Jl'RY." Mrs.

Fiske In satirical comedy, set in a jury room. Opens Monday night. LAFAYETTE "YOUNO SINNERS." American youth in some of Its mad and merry moments. Continues. DETROIT CIVIC "THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL." Richard Brlnsley Sheridan's opulent comedy.

Opens Monday niKht. CASSrark. SHl'BERT-DETROIT Dark. LOOKS BRIGHT Continued From Page One. In store for the motion picture Industry and that this will be reflected as well in other businesses.

HAIL BAKKYMORKS. Hollywood must be a little more dignified during the holidays the Barrymores are returning; about that time, John and his wife, Dolores Costello and Dolores, the small, who have spent the last two months exploring; CenlTal America in their yacht, are reported to be on their way home and are expected to arrive in time to spend the holidays in Beverly Hills. This will give Barrymore a short month to make final plans for his next Warners' picture, 'Trilby," In which he will play the picturesque role of the sinister Svengali. John had a lot of fun on the trip. A horseback trip into the Interior of Guate mala cost him a week's illness from jungle fever, but the receptl on staged by Central America made him quickly forget It, I ne Barrymore yacht, "The Infanta." Is due to reach Long Beach harbor early In December.

BARTIIELMKSS, TOO. After several months' vacation in the wilds of Canada, and later the wilds of New York, Richard Bar-thelmesa has returned to Hollywood to resume his picture work at First National studios. In his first opus he will play the role of a "hard- boiled" newspaper reporter, jjick says he hob-nobbed around with newspaper men in JSew xotk. to aD-sorb the necessary color. AMBITIOUS LOIS.

Lois Moran is certainly an ambitious young woman. Now that she is on her VI weeks' vacation under a Fox contract, she is not Idling away her time. She is appearing on the stage in New York in a play called "This Is New York," with Arthur Hopkins producing. Lois was to have vacationed in Europe but the temptation of appearing on the stage once more was too great to refuse. CO-STAKS.

We have a new co-starring team in Hollywood. Both are old friends and popular favorites with picture theatergoers, however. June Coll-yer and Lloyd Hughes are the fortunate players who have attracted so much favorable attention recently that they have been signed to a contract by the Tiffany company to co-star as a team. It appears that June and Lloyd played the leads In a picture made by this company, called "Extravagance." It proved such a hit with the theater-goers that the exhibitors have been flooding Tiffany studio with requests for more of the same. Consequently, the company lost no time in form- I ing this new team and finding a suitable vehicle.

"Drums of Jeopardy," strong dramatic story, has selected as 'heir first opus. i It is odd that Hughes appears to strike greatest favor with the thea- ter-goers when he is co-starring witij sbie attresa opposite. It MESSRS. SHUBERT PRESENT The Comedy That Hat Made Blase Detroit Sit Up andTaheNotice! JTMinlMl Sma.hing Broadway i FISKE IN i vy Her Brilliant Neiv York Success Lfsr Ladies ti Tha naw fnaration en a rampagt Wallace Ford Marjorie Peterson AND A DELECTABLE CAST OF INCORRIQIBLES A New Comedy by Fred Ballard Direction Co. Tytr in Association with A.

L. Erianger Amusement Enterprises, Inc. Staged by Harrison Grry Fiske The magnificence of MRS. FISKE Queen of the Stage Queen of the whole Dramatic World New York World NOWHERE IN ALL THE WORLD A BARGAIN LIKE THIS: COMING -CTCDDIPvlr-1 SOON JlUrrinVJ i Gala Holiday Attraction DETROIT CIVIC THEATER ury i f3 ma u. Ok.

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i. tw- i ONE WEEK ONLY BLTv RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN'S (Author of "The "School for Scandal" LOWELL "CAMILLE" fci' I I 1 11 ftK6 HARRY ROSENTHAL NEW YORK CAST ilnTC All Ersninss i .00 llllll Cr Ct.t Ul. ft" ii i nii-oai. man. Balcony I II 11 1 sf JOAN LOWELL Thit ii Ihm final mppearanct ol Milt Lnvll at Iht thtatrt) NKXT WEEK "THE TORCHBEARERS" It was a foregone that Universal.

As Cormne has not been once Marjorie Rambeau started in la success previously in talking pic-talking pictures, she wouldn't have tures let us hops she makes the an idis moment, i the r-1 grade this tiiut,.