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<rraiaeininagg eerie neem eremrmmerer THEATRE George Jean Nathan And Stars Remain, 4) Jul 1 Philip Epstein. Two Hollywood scenario writers try to write a Behrman comedy with distinctly Hollywood results and the Theatre Guild. which sponsors it, sinks further in the critical estimation. Clifton Webb gives 3 performance of a rdle that doesn't ts. It is rumored that the Guild is plan ning to produce another comedy, something of the Moliére sort, by three Hollywood scenario writers. Guild, W". 5 Boy Meets Girl, 4y Bellz and Sam Spewak. The big Hollywood laugh show guaranteed to liven up even the dead pan of Brock Pemberton. Cort, UW’. 4! Dead End, 4) Sidney Kingsley. Admirably produced second-rate but here and there elo quent essay on the criminal impulses nurtured by the slums. Belasco, W’. 44th Hamlet, by william Shakespeare. John Gielgud, pet of Piccadilly, playing several different kinds of asexualized Hamlets in a 4 if somewhat, too elaborate and y confounding. Jo Mielziner prod directed here and there with some skill and re and here with an uncertain and very dubious hand by Guthrie McClintic. Ev pire, Bway and 40th. Idiot's Delight, 4) Robert Sherwood. Some diverting vaudevilis rroments but request to have itself ace ment of the folly of war is asking a bit too much. Childish stuff theatrically enlivened only by Alfred Lunt's spirited performance. Shubert, W. 44th. On Your Toes, sy MA gers, Hart and Abbott. poon of the pretensions of n art of the dance ¢ good tunes and telligent travesty. Mu WwW’, 44th. Reflected Glory, 4) George Kelly The dead old hoke about the actress torn between reer and a desire for ba- with Tallulah Bankhead damnedest to give it against too heavy odds Morosco, W, 45th, Stage Door, 4) Geor Edna Ferber. A defence ¢ against Hollywood, but the play itself is pretty weak evidence. Music Box, W’. 45th ” th with sc an and Swing Your Lady, 4) Kenyon Nicholion d Charles Robinson. The au l Beware! fail to hit it this time with a comedy about a female wrestler. Booth, W’, 45th Three Men on a Horse, 4y J. C. Holm and George Abbott. A sometimes comical farce about racetrack betting, but—at least to your critical Love Interest—hardly the bowler-over that the public has voted it Fulton, W. 46th, Tobacco Road, ty Jack Kirkland and Erskine Caldwell. Proving that it iso't entirely true what they sing about Dixie. A. study of the human trash in the back reaches of Georgia, Forrest, W. 49th, Tevaniet, by Jacques D J Robert Sher- Taking the cliché of persons of hig ‘en by circumstances ii hors have em- y and warm- minor comedy often nent. John Halliday, first-rate pany mer- it beautifully. Plymouth, W" 43th White Horse Inn, 4) Aim. by. At its yo that you take to the theatre, you'll be fied, but if you fetch promise you much pleasure. Wi antics are highly distur clisle’s singing m 6th Ave. and 49th, the rdles ¢ broidered it with a ing that the re Victoria Regina, 4; Laurence Housman. Retaining all the freshness of its last season's drive and with Helen Hayes even better than she was in the beginning. Broadhurst, W’. 44th, Ziegfeld Follies, 4) MM. Gershwin, Duke and Freedman. Bobby Clark, that honey among clowns, Fannie Brice, that honey among clownesses, and Gypsy Rose Lee, who undresses the way Mae West talks, in a show that couldn't, with them in it, be bad, W's ter Garden, Bway and 50th. BOOKS Ted Shane A Prayer for My Son, 43 Hugh W pole. The Fuddy-Duddy of Literature con- tinues to amaze with his dishwater and large sales theref, This is modern “revolt” and some fancy English country scenezy and smalltown society, Absalom, Absalom, 4, wil Rape, incest, arson, murder and a few Dante didn’t hear of from the poison pen of ¢ leading screwball art wri t. Across Spoon River, 4; Fu. Lee Masters. Autobio- graphical outpouring of his life by the Hoosier poct and ex- lawyer. E had some hot times with the gals but then kes white heat to melt the Jin the poetic crucible Jie has t An American Testament, 4) Josep! Fr ”. In which a Russian born Ameri intellectual and radical tells how he got tha way. Freeman's uncompromising, very. sin ind what would you expect amen! He's also a good writer ybe your name's in the book. cere, very s: of us Columbi. and m Co-Op, ty Upton Sinclair. Our leading bellyacher on an entirely false ds dingy scent about curing the ailing economy, Usual readable Sinclair dramatics. Lots of relief tragedy but no “Jungle.” Green Margins, 4y F. P. O'Donnell Soiled stuff about the Cajuns, the dregs of the melting pot, living rankly down to the Mississippi: Delta. King Cole, 4; Ww”. “Little Caesar,” R. Burnett. Since Burnett has been going COURT CALENDAR awfly inary i Here’ re-electic Hollywood. This one’s about an imag- Ohio governor who hitlers himself Is no “It Can't Happen night have been had the going and been less hokey. Kit Brandon, by Sherwood Anderson. Sher- mount Art ir Mosc) Rahsia, all de time books abaht R. will it with under good Portrait of an Era, Charle hands: b Gi Sam ly. rea known Rebel Rebel well s first in five years and all about a ain gal who turned bootlegger’s woman, 1a gangster’s- mask ow Skies, 4) Maurice Hindus. Rahsia, hsia! Vere all lidd? This one’s a novel teeming Rahsian pipple and wid planty life the Fife-Year Plan. De plahts not so bott try it y Fairfax Downey. s Dana Gibson and his Gibson giti, omely illustrated and memory bringing Downey's a bit more in love with on than a biographer should be. Adams, 4) John C. Miller ble A scholar- fe ioncer in Propaganda, is contemporaries as the Boston and the Puritan The age is s clear, historic t and ai re-created. clichés are avoided and there are no modern parallels. ‘Taint Right, by Westbrook Pegler. A col- lection of 78 of the sportwriter-turned-edito- rialist Mr. Pegler whams dow 's best columns, Without weasel words, on the weasels of the world, and next to. Heywood Broun wields the biggest stick in America today. Broun has the weight but Pegler's a great champ in his class. The satitical columns are honeys and I marvel Pegler hasn't been put on the spot by Hitler. The French Quarter, by Herbert Asbury. Contir American hells. nuing Dr. Asbury’s descent into our This time it's N° Orleans with the good Doctor fishing out of the sin and the blare such cuties as Bridget Fu: ney-Foot Jennie, Pig-T Minnie Haha the Cathouse Ku we wet lins be drama. by Je The Lost Wagon Trail, 45 The Nine Old Men, Lovely the T preme that st ited Old Corpses that adorn. the Camic & Mama who d descent from Mr. & Mrs, Hiawatha for comic relief there are murderers, usts, Jean La Fitte, unidealistic poli- Dr. Asbury's his’ usual uncondemn If and your virgin Aunt B it The Law and the McLaughblins, y Atur- Sequel to the Able McLaugh- ut not so 4 in freshness of melo- All about the p it of three lynch- a hetup Scotch nity, and how ¢ liked one 0° the ane Grey chance of its staying lost for good? Pears Court Bench and bop anything icks its head up. How do Pearson & Allen keep out of jail? The Old Ashburn Place, Margaret et $10,000 prize soil novel Ano fe you can't get_a prize unless you're tiresome about the soil. The Stones Awake, by Carleton Beals. The noted authority on Mexico tenders a blud- gconing, lumbersome novel about Esperanza, ‘ the be way t autiful Indian peon gal who made her ‘0 schoolteaching thru a revolutionary torn Mexico from 1910 to today, comicbooks.com