Variety (Mar 1935)

S6 VARmTY LEGIti M^l t We(Obesdfiy, March 13, 1935 STOP PRESS .. ^ ; . London, Fel). 22. ' Rovue proaonlcti by Clltrord Whltloy.; pro- ducoiV uiiil (1li'0ui6d> by Hiissiinl Short: lyrics ami. muhic by .IrvliiR . nei'lln;. skotch'es . by Muss Ilfil'i und 'Urcatcs' Ncwninn: coslumes and sptilngii designed by Doris Zindelsen; .etuffpj lit ■ llio Adoliihl- thcatro Fob.' i21.. featui'fs Dorolhy Dlrkaftn,. Phyllis-Monk-. m-O). liiiurrtioo- Ani'iorsoiii. Cliarlesi Collins, E;bvln, Styles. \ ' The much heraldtiA 'Stop Press-i CU<Ioi^d Whitley's revue. Is- founded on: 'Aa T-houGahds Cheer', aiigr meuted by. excerpts froijn 'The Band ■Waffou', 'Three's a Crowd' and *FtxcL<; Ihd Music'. Show coat $90,000 to produce and hias a $13,500 nut. .. M6;3t, Iniportatit star's, ofthe. .eiv- 'tei'tatriniGitt are Hassard Short, pro- ducer, and Doris Zirilcei^cn, who dcslgrned the costvinics and settings. Short's work on., the lighting, stasr Ing, >!ceni? and*-^ mechtihi'cal ejfecta arc the, llhest ever'seen In. this coun- . try. ;'inii.s Is augmented by a fresh , con.s.lv;iinveiit:, of American g^rl^ for the chcrii.% jl^fdr hoihing: else, they were a veyelation In that one could, /uiider.stand wiiat they Avcre singing about.:- ■ . ' ■ { Anoi-hor thing . that/ materially helped' the eritertainpnent on open- ing, nlglit \ va.s the. absoUite. absteh- . tion ;fr}^m-.encores. >.' , ';:;-v-- ; ;v • Most "of the skits arc short, biit BO me of them a .bit prolonged. A few'.sire tiresome! and one or two arc ill bad taste. . Perhaps they-have .lDi?t some of th.eir zip through adaptation .aiid localization. There Is no star cast. Majority Of tlie ■ iJl.^.j'ci s urei . tou^ artists who l>ayc. been seeii Kero for years, —Nrmr.- of^'Vvlirom^huvB^ev^i^ afSIhed" deflhite artistic distlhctlon. Robert Helpmann,:, Floreiice Chumbercos and Margaret Sande stand but as terpsichorieanistB.;; Dorothy Dlclsson, teamed, with Charles Collins, are Mot happily blended; Both are noted , dancers In their respactive wayK,: but '^these" ways go in bp- .posltc dlrsctlonis. 'Miss Dickson's work is: smooth;. rhythmic and of the ballroom style and temPQ'.. Col- ; lins .inclines to the-hOtclia,; ";;; • :' Biit it Is the production as a whole on whioiv bplhion must be formed. Wlieii • oive or.Vtwo of the sketches arc edited and; others deleted and .reserve mateiial substituted, it looks : like a commercial,, as well as airtis- ■,tlc', succes.'i.' Jolo. confldod to hlmi for the. pui'pose of conducting some scientlflc expcri'- ments. Circumstantial evidence Is against him and Karla, his. fiancee, caniiot help believing him guilty. She takc$ the theft upon hei'self so as tt> iave hlni. Making up the de- tails of the story as she is. being quesfiohed she makes a full and con- vincing confession. To make it plauslblejlt .Is necessary to pretend that: sho/slblQ the m^^ in order to help another loyor. : She is cbn^ A;lctcd -and sent to prispri; The engineer, being Innocent, does not know that the girl made a fake confession, .sacrificing herself for hlih, and believes her guilty. . He Is conVunied ■ with, jeal.ou.sy because_he bell eyes .she has' stolen the" nion<5y and ihrowh suspicion on him for another man's, sake, . Girl . suffers much-because he: does'not\dppre- clate her iiacriflce; and lias deserted, Tie'r."" -.They meet - again aceidentally when her prison terni Is over. 'There is an explanation, but the girl has so profoundly entinglcd herself in her v.'eb of lies that the jealous man does not know what to. believe until; the rCfil thief is discovered. : /Sayiner that tho play'hdis a well- constructed plot and some fine writ-; irig in it is saying too little. There la In : it. that indefinable- somethings that comeji of innermost experience.- This Avas made more convincing by the acting of n young actress, £lma Bulla, who a,chieved a, ~ great and! well-merited success. She is .ex-. tremely simple and direct and has a perfect command of the whole scale of emotion Up to the highest isltch of exaltation and hyst erla_wlthoutl -o verdoing an ythlng. jjjntire cast I9 fine, v,'lth Pager In the part of the boy, George; Nagy- in that of .the real' thief, Molnar as the police magls- tratCi Bafotl as cbunsei for the deV fense and Boray as the psychiatric expert wild alriiost drives the poor girl cray.y. Jocofti. Budapest, Feb. 22. —IPlay^limlSVeB'ftcio byTrnhlt Jianr at' the Belvnrosi ..theatre, Budapest. : .'Cas.t.:: Blma BiiUp, Antal Pager,' .George Nogy, Ba'rdtt, Boraii, Z. Moinar. ■ , Rose Meller, who wrotei Tliieuten- aht Comrna' under the liscudonyni of Frank Maar, served a prison term in: Vienna last year for misleading the authbrlties. She fold a curious and complicated story about having been Jissaulted by ah unknown criminal. I^ot a word of it was true and her mlotive in staging and spreading the story, has not been quite'cle.ared 'iip. : She has' hoyf written a play for Which ■ sheJ-seemis-^o^havc-^ot—the- ' Inspiration from the same mys teri- - oiis-source thatTpronriitcd'lref fb put' tpthe assault story J Play, however, ■ Is unusuaUy... interesting..: .:It deals 'with--a very iio vel-psychqlbglcal pro- ljlen;i and, sb cbnyincing and so human that It Is outstanding. '.Gonfesslon' will make its mark, not only because it allows a very pigniflcant: new actress to. display her .exceptional talent, but because It is a well-constructfed and pro- foundly thrilling play. Herner, a youii^:-engineer, is sus- pected of having stolen an imporr tant sum which his employers have Prbces d'Oscar Wilde - ('Trial: of OseaP Wildo') ^ '--j-parls, Mavch 1..: Drama.,In three .acts by Ma-iirlce Rosr- tand. starring Hari-y :Eaur. .Fresented by. Paulotte' ,Pa.\- and .Lticleh Beer at the Oeuvre.-Paris, ■ Oscar Wllde.-^...',.Harry Baur ■Walter....... ^, .\ ....;...;. Edouard Tressy Lord Qnisen9berry...;-...^....Jean Borguet I^ord Alfred Douglas., . .At\dre ToUch'e Frank Harris...Joae Sqlilnquel PoKe Boy................. .Hdrace DevauU Carson...: .Marc 'Vdlbel Slr.Kdward.Clarke.:...... .Raymond Narlay Chief .Tustlce CollinsRobert'Lis Flon Alderman..;,.....'.;............;. Lofevre-Bel ■ Parker,. .i-v» r... .v-. Raymond- MaTc'el Wood.........■....>...;.,'.;. .'. .'Michel Tonry Policeman .,i . ■.;.. ,■. ;'aiaToel Herry Warder.; .'.\. . .....:..'.; .Rene -.Stern . Harry : Raur's. acting ;is .the: chlet .r6asbh.wtvhy--this: darin^r^iay^-^ Maurice Rostand is a- current Paris sensation. Number oiie ; man of French fllmis show.s again. how grand lie Is in leie:lt, from; which he graduated to flickers. : Thesis of play is that; Wilde's dis- grace and Imprisonment was neces- sary'to bring, out his fuli genius. Before the trial he was just ia.smart popular author; afterwardrhe wrote the only things \vhich now. survive.' At the; same time play is a de':^ f enae^tifr-hbmosexuality;—Bixiir has a numbier of Jong^speeches. particular- HyTh "act thjree, "where he Is shown in his cell, in which he advocates:ab- nornial: love. In. no case are theili.nes: indecent, and TBaurVtak.eat completely masculine fashion. It la a rriasterly characterization. ; Three acts are really independent scenes, rather than part of a con- nected piece. First, In »a private room of;a^restaurant,- ehows-the at- tack of Lord Queensberry on Wilde' which determines the writer to brirtg a libel suit against: the marquess. Second shows Wilde's two. trials— the libel suit, and" the tvial for inde- ThnHi|lrl|F E liis urance LIFE INSURANCE Is the only investment that is designed en.- tlrely for ■ the .benefit of the In- vestor. It is, the only plan by which small-sums can purchase the same quality of. Investment securities that are .available to huge, investment resources. ; Furthermore,: it-la the only In- yestriieht- which. guara ntees to return all you Intended to save-^ to yoii, if you'live; to your fam-: iiy, if you. don't. . It fvlll .cost you novin'ore . to ;bwn -In-: ;tiurance whith. flts your .case perfectly, th/iii (q .rHi.Yimlsfl.tJ.fiH.nrance.....-..^^ JOHN J 561 Fifth Av., New York City Ph^ne8^IV1U>^ay Hill,2-T-7P38r9 in set reproducing Wiide^s-cell ait Reading jail, shbws his life in prison. Quotes from Wilde are frequent, and much of the material'is drawn from the -vvorks; of Frank Harris, who is a leading character, Oeuvre, where the play is presente d, Is the -same-th catre~in ."whiclF'Saibnie' was performed In France ^ while WUde was In jalK Rostand's writing is sober and efr fective except for the last few min- utes, when Wilde's mother, .offstage, talks to him through the gate of hlg cell.. Llhes the'h grow: rpaudlini, : . Interest is naturally limited .'to public which cares about literary things. "Absence of indecency in treatment, and fact that Wilde has passed Into history should make an adaptatibh possible. Success -would then' depend chiefly oh choice .of leading man. ' Stern. A HAROM S ARK ANY ('The Three Dragons') Budapest, Feb, 24. Comedy by SSandor Hiinyady at the Vigszinhaz, BudapcKl. Cast: Ilona TItkos. . .Ella Ctoth, Gabriel Riijnay, Paul J avor, Alexander :<}oth. ' . A spirited, original and chafmlrig comedy;-which depends greatly on rlts—loeal-color-for-Hur!eei!s, b'uf lfs lovable odd types might be adapted to any similar background, Hero is /a middle-aged country gentleman who has H^'efi sowing wild oats and squandering the family I fortunes itntil he has been put un- Current Road Shows Week March 11 Abbey Player«> Blltmore, Los An- geles. ... ■; •Ah Wildepnett/ Temple. Scran- ton, -11; Temple, Wllkes-Barre, Academy of.Music, Brooklyn, 13-15 ; McCarter, Princeton, 16. •As Thousands Cheer,' Memorial Audc, Louisville, ll-iS; Ryinan Aude, Nashville, 13; Tlvoll, Chatta- nooga* 14; Temple, Birmingham, 15; Audltol'tum,: Mentxphls, I?.. ;. '''Dodsworth/ Colonial, ..Boston. / D'Oyly Carte Repertory, Erlang- er, Chicago. ' / '.■ ■' ■;-;■■ ; Eva - La Gallienne Repertory^ Ford, Baltimore, 11-13; Colonial, Norfolk, 14; Lyric, Richmond, 16-^6. •First Legion,'. Harris,."^CRlcaigo..^ ♦FbllTes^' ■ e ; i Prbvidencei^ 11-12; Court Square, -.Springfield, 13; Parsons, Hartford,. 1'4'; Shubeirt, New Haven, 15-16. '.fifollywoorf Holiday/ ". Piymouth, Boston. '■',■.•"..'.";'■:■■■;■, •Mapy of Scotland,* Royal Alexan- dra, Toronto, 11-13; Erlanger, Buf- falo, 14-16; ■ ■';• •Ode to Liberty,' Chestnut, Phila- delphia. ■ ' ,'■ :-.';. ■ ' •Roberta,' Masonic Audc, Roches- ter, 11; Capitol, Albany, 12-13; His Majesty'.<ri Montreal.14-16. • •'- 'Sailor Beware,' Cass, Detroit. der the guardianship bt his three sisters-^the three dragbns of the ti- tle. Now It's his son who is sowing wild oats In the city and getting into debt—on account of a famous actress,-; the • aiints-think. "Daddy' 19. entrusted with: a substantial sum to .pay - the- prodigal, son's debts-:and bring him home. With money In hia- pocket again, the prodigal father feels like an. old war , horse when the btigle calls. He-fUngs the three dra,gons' hard-earned money about like a real gentleman; spends nights singing; and" dancing to the, music of gypsy bands, son and father have the times of their-, lives together,, and . Daddy, conquers the actress, who Is no vamp as the aunts believe her to be, but a hard-working, hon- est artist. When the money is all gone, the dragons take charge again but are won over by. the actress, who; malTles- the old reprobate and makes a man of. him, while the boy marries his cousin, whom he cared for all along. • A coinedy full of wholesonie gaiety, real humor and. faisclnating, brlglnar^yiies,^played_Jri a .sonie:r what loo comic vein. Mlsa.Tltitos Is miscast lii the part- of the actress; bUt Rajnay plays the prodigal fa- ther with great spirit and IBUa Goth is admirable in the part of a ca-: pable,- - mamilsh~country 'squlress,' the most formidable of the kind- hearted three dragons. •Three Dragons' will probably be a popular success, arid ought to 'gb on the screen. Jacohi. MAN OF YESTERDAY / ; London, Feb. 26. Play in thred. iicts adapted froni 'the French- of Jean Bommart by Dibit Tlther- adge. Presented :by A.left Rea at. thft :St. MartijT.s theatre,. .• Cu-.j-—- ■ ■ '■ ■ ' - Katheflh'o .' L'liidon;......',.,.;, . Ann .Todd PajU_Gallowaa'.->^ ^. •.. •. .-.Jiex-HarrlHoti A. NuniB,....'., .'... .,.., ,,.%».. ;Glpsy Rainia Mr, Braham..'...i........H. G. Stoker Dr. Trevor^ >.Erlc_Mejwlter JameaUrett;. vJ^es lie Bun ks Sir GeorgQ^ Rowland.... ...-.vC-'- V. - Franco- wUUam Lawrence........ Allah Jeayes Madeline Brott.\......;.....Gillian Llnd Robert Mason.. ..... . Bromley Davenport Mra. Mason.-......;... .Winifred. Evans Henry ..... ; , .:... i.,. .Frederick Piper .,-Thls4play-;ia-iri-^daptatlon-'trom the French, in plot, it's just an- other; atory of amnesia, the central character being a man who has a street accident, loses his memory and goes back to the time he was -riddJed—wlth-^shrapne^-Tdurlngr^he war, and imagines he is still -tn a military hospital,. . A remarkable coincidence Is the fact that a. similar case is reported in this morning's newspaper simul- taneous With the reviews bn the play; . Piece_seema to. hajde_lQst a little something, but Is, neverthe- iess, good theatrical entertainment. Leslie Banks is the titular char- acter and the pUppbrting company, while perfectly competent, calls for no ; special :lndlvldiial . nierttlon.- FOUR, FIZETEK! ■ ('Waiter, My Bill!') ~ Budapest, Feb. 25. . ' Play . In three acts by Vllmos Rozvaliyl and Rezso .Szlrmal, at the Bethlen-ter :tbeatr'e', Budapest.-. Cast: Margit Mnkay, tiOUis Oellert, .Erzsl . Bnrsony. Aladar Sitrkddi, Itnre .Czobor. . on DE LUXE DrainK^ln two actq and-Ave scenea by LoulH ' Bronifleld and JoUn . Gcaron; pre- soiited and 'etae'cd by Chester: iSrskIn at the Rooth, N. y.. March 0. 'SS; seta by. Jo Mtelalnef; 43.85 top.; Pali Dantry......, .Melvyn Douglas Faniiy. Altemus'....,...'. .Cora Wllherspopn Jniioy. Travis.............Claudia Morfcan Sdbino'Brandon............. Violet Hemlni; Ogilen Trovlsi..........;.;.Clyde Fillmore Mnrlo, i.'.. V...... V....Beverly • SItgrbaves li'lrat. Porter'i,i...'.,..Tabor .Von Jnny So<;ond: Porter.... .■..David Hushes Lady Dolsy Divntry, l.-.Ann Andrews Lottie. Moore.,.... ,.,.....;v.Blsa Maxwell Sophlel Uashly..,.-.tBlanche Ring Hank' McDonald,...,....Alan Bunce The Grand Duke Sacha (Zlzi).. .... v. ;............... Pierre : DcRiune]r Tony Acolla..............'Peppy?, DeAlbrew PrlnCQss..D'DrobelU (Bna).,..Ivy Troutnian :Loay-DextrIes.-iv."... .Florancfr :Ban6y Bobby Trlplett;.Maurice Soipincrs M6n«, Du Poiit., ..Robert :L«Suer .Walter,.....^..Torn' Ewell -: Somewhere .along In 1917 IjOuIs Bronifleld wrote this play. It was to have been done by the Province- town Players, biit' something hap- pened. Looking at It today, as re- written and embellished, the thought occurs that he should either have had it produced then or forgotten all about.it. Bromfleld as a novelist won the Pulitzer Prize once, but 'DeLuxe' Is transparent and phoney. At one point bne of the ; cHaracters says: 'The rich know, the priced of .everything and the value of nothing.' That's one of the best of the epigrams the characters are constantly throwing out and It's a good example of what masquerades here as wit. . Curiously enough; Bronifleld's hent . for; the.Jj^typje^ofJ .£ham portrayed here— the over-aexed, drink-crazed neurotics that form, the" 'froth:" of tJuFoj^eah soiclet^—is shared by a French playwright, Edouard Bourdeti ' BoUrdet wrote a Is saved, the vamp reforms and marries and the waiter discovers that, he really loves the good, kind arid Innocent girl. A slum legend with poetic touches but overdone and lacking sincerity. Louis Gellert makes a specialty of such parts, and does well In them but cannot ; make this heavenly waiter real. MargU Makay makes the vamp far more plausible and the entire cast does very well, add- ing another t,ood performance to the record of this small and' inex- pensive siiburban theatre which has climbed to the rank of a flrat-rate stage in the course of a few months. :.:_;■.:,- . i — ■ ■■■ ■ - . - -JaCohi. - •■ FOR THE DEFENCE .'. '■;'. ■ London, Feb.. 27. . ' -Dfain ii. In two nnta" hv John WimtlngH. Turner; i produced by Matheson Long- at the Duke of . York's theatre^ Feb; 2$. Barbara' Keeble.'.,..... ..Beatrix Thomson Ralph Keeble DoukIos Jefterlea Kali........;.'..,;...... .Bdgar HcBwen lit. Ranger- Bell..:.-...'......; .Derelr..Gbrst Dr. Howard Lord....... .Walter Pl^rs Captain Hunter...........Dcnia Wy'ndbam .Sir Philip' Holbrooke^ Matheson Lang; Elizabeth Holbrooke......... .Helen .Haye Maid..Ann FurrfiU Kaiy; Southey;.,. .. ........ ;Mary Sheridan Inspector 'Randall...... .w^ .-Fronk WoolCe Sir.-James Taske.. i..,.... Aubrey Dexter Justice '.Barrow.. ...^'...'..Douflas: Jeflerlea Charles :Pembertoh........ John Kentish liahe;^—--.-•.t.-.-t>.i-:^«-.;»^^.-Walter—Menpes- Rlchhrds.. ;Walter Menpea John Hastings Turner ban be re- lied . upon to. turn but a. practical manusci4ptr-foli^the-stagcr -Quality of the thesis is another matter. There have been so many good plays with trial scenes that a new one would have to be awfully good. Little or n6'fault in the court scene jiei-e, but it is. n.Q _ better_.thiaji-Aj nuniber of others thaf have; gone before, so the big punch of the piece is no longer a novelty. A brilliant titled barrister defends the wohian he loves oh a charge .bf ^murder.. He p uts all he has; iiito "th"S~a'gfgnS'erTTlwiy~Beirevlng in her innocence. Aftei: acquitting her he learns from her own ilps she had actually committed the murder, there being what most people would regard as sufllclent Justlflcatlon. He wants to marry her, nevertheless, .but on discovering, the victim was his own prodigal brother she reso- lutely refuses, claiirxlnT the barrier between them would constantly stalk its ghost. ' Matheson Lang as the barrister arid Beatrix Thomson as the wbritian. are adequately supported by a wcll- chosen cast. : In addition to the unconscionable time taken In developlivg the dis- sertation, coincidences are stretched beyond reason. in haying.the woman shoot a mart; in Bast, Africa, coine (Continued on page 57) play with similar characters, story and the; samo basic setting, the Hotel Rltz In Paris, about six years ago. He called it 'Le Sex Paible' ('The Weaker Sex'). It was a Paris hit and a Broadway flop, [Bourdet'a newest play, 'Times Have Clianged,' is current in New York with a Louis Bromfleld adaptation, Just as a coincidence.] • ;. • ■ ..... Chester Erskiii' has given 'D« Luxe' an exceptionally fine produc- tion, but It won't- help; It has just about the finest cast assembled thla ■ season and for several other sea- sons. But those same names that should help it draw somewhat will . hurt because of the aggregate over- head necesaitated. At $3.85 top It : takes a lot of. tickets to roll Up 110,000, the least the show must gross weekly to break. It may draw the smart mob for a..whire, but not enough or for a. long time. ■. -. Melvyn Douglas Is a dissipated young man who's drunk most of the.time and whose bills are being paid by >Cora Wltherspoon. Claudia - Morgan is the young daughter of a tnllllonaire (Clyde Fillmore) and. in lover with a penniless young ' newspapeman (Alan Bunce). Violet Hemlng Is a sad-gay divorcee try- .Ing to keep. her - mounting debts from worrying her by' drinking any- - thing. . Ann Andrews has a title, a perpetual t-Mi;=0r-^ mountbig-Btack— of debts and a bitter tongue. ': Blanche Ring a rich and some- what elderly American lady who wants to meet society and Elsa - Maxwell'la the genial and obese fixer who helps her meet people r.nd >p«nd "'m"Ottey^m"oStiy "The Jatter.; 'Peppy' DeAlbrew, of the night clubs, la bn- thci staKe fbr mo9t~bf ~' the second act In the role of a thieving gigolo, and Ivy Troutman, famous m legit years ago; dbes her : bit as one of iVfi society' leaders! Those are the main spokes of the cast and plot. There is much chat- ter and many wisecracks and noth-: Ing much happens until the second act. ■ Then Clyde FUlriiore proposes to Miss Hemlng and she's about to: marry him for hla money.: Ann Andrews gets tired of It all: and knocks herself off. That sobers most everybody up for a few min- utes. Claudia Morgan runs oft with her poor but honest newspaperman; Douglas glv-9 Miss'Wltherspoon the gate and she picks up DeAlbrew. Miss Hemlng changes her mind about her rich Fillmore and she and Douglas cry on each : other's phbulders. and decide- to.. attempt— muddling through on their own, ,desplt€i thelr-Tnutual poverty.- -'"■ : It's a finish which doesn't solve, anything, which doesn't promise anything except-greater confusion. But-ifis" a finish, r , ;■ " Jo Mielzlner's sets are beautiful and ■ effective and work very. . .smoothly. There's at least one di- rectorial touch by Erskln which de- -sftrvea better spotting and mora at- tention. It's between the first and siecond scene of the first act. . At the close of the first scene Douglas picks up a phone to call Miss Hem- lug. - He gets the connection and starts . the conversation; "* Stage blackout and mikes pick up the -conversation from ' both ;' aides. . Lights-on^gain-tb-ahow-Mias-Hem—~ Ing's - apartment, she at the bther end of the phone flnliahlng the talk. ;. It'9_mojlo!!X_pi.cture : technique-ap--^- . plied to the stage that shows In- genuity and imagination. Twentieth Century Films spon- sored this production. Studio can't possibly make a film out of it as is. unless ;cleanirig it up com- -)>letely, and: if doing that, what is there left? Kauf. A play of good intentions but poor results. It Is a sort of 'Third Floor -^Back^-JlereiS^a-;kind-"of"'sainirin"^lie' guise of a poor waiter who It) trying to make everyone happy In the mis- erable tenement house where he lives and where -everybody is wicked, malicious, envious and un- grateful. * ■■ All the lodgers owe him money, iio they nearly lynch him,.an.4jcben. the slum vamp,~whom he loves with unrociulted passion, tries to do away, with her illegitimate baby, he falls under suspicion of having killed the baby himself. Finally a sweet girl saves him from the consequences of hi3• superlative goodhessj the baby, Cornell in Balto First . . . Bttltimbre, March 12. . Katharine Cornell wlli open her riext prpductlbn, /'FioSvers of the Forest,' by John: Van i3ruten, in Bal- > timbre at the Independently booked Maryland, with four performances In three days, Aprii 8.-10 at $3.30 tPp. Sho\y:. will^ come In. .on..Sunday.- (i) ...; and rehearse till the foi'mal public liriyelliiig bn. the following Tiitirsr day. Afterieaving. Baltimore it will iiave a proriipt debut on Broadway ^' the following Monday (12) at the;. Martin Beck theatre. Productibn >yill be tlie first one in years In w'hlch Miss Cornell is play- ing not to be staged: by her husband, ; Guthrie McCllntic. Aurlbl Lee,:who ^ directs all. of .J^an. Druten'8:-play3, wili stage, with McCllntlc supervls- . Ins the general production. . .' ■ '• ■' -• I. MILLER Stride with "STROLLIES" A New Shoe for a ,■ SfurOy lenthersi trlln ■ty ieg and bullt -ni>_ leather herls. •■Strotllo Bag." -i:hlBh_shn.4osii- for Spring...' $2.00 I 552 Broadway (^Cpr. 46th streetj Open to 9 P.M.