Show rA NEW PLAY I BeLo Red Mill Into Hell Raiser I Belasco Converts i Wings Over Europe Another Another Another An An- other Drama on Broadway Gotham Social Makes Good GoodBy By GILBERT S SWAN SAN AN N NEA EA Service Writer NEW YORK YOnI Dec Dee 29 9 NEA EA- EA Splitting the atom has been beena a haunting problem In the world of or science And dramatizing the atom might seem m at first thought to be bean an equally difficult task Yet this has been done and with tho the most thrilling results by assuming the tre atom to be completely under mans man's control The result Is one of ot tho the most stirring and thou thought compelling ht adventures that the Broadway the- the tre has to offer Wings Ings Over Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope third of ot the Theatre Guild productions S S S SAnd And while wIllIe the tile unseen atom was being prepared for its Us role of ot hero Just around the corner David Belasco Belasco Bel- Bel asco was expending some of his t le- le e- e ener energy y converting his theatre theatre the the- atre Into a miniature of ot the Baldwin Baldwin Bald Bald- win locomotive works For at th thage the age of 73 the old master of stagecraft stagecraft stagecraft stage stage- craft decided to put on his mightIest mightiest might might- iest lest effort That the atom should prove infinitely more exciting th thin n nall all of M. M Belasco's gadgets ets and shooting flames is no reflection on the white hairs of the old massa massa- Had Belasco been half halt as careful careful care care- ful In the selection ot or a play as aR he was In the preparation of ot his theatre theatre thea thea- tre for tor the event there would have been a different story to tell As AsIt AsIt Asit It happens he sel selected ted Molnar's The Tho Red Mill MUI and renamed rename it Mima Minla This is a play In which they literally raise ralso hell hello They raise hell helt and bring it to Belasco's theatre It seems that an Inventor arriving in hell decided to RaVe save Satan a lot of time Hell needed d greater efficiency eff It was wag taking to too long to wreck the most mOlt virtuous souls in a few moments The Tile wrecking wreck wreck- ing lag crew consisted of a put nut together with great care care b by the Inventor and operated by the ma chine This is Mima Mirna and very ery hively lively live hive ly Iy was since Leonore UlrIch Played her So they pick on a hopelessly hopelessly hope hope- lessly pure gent up UI on earth bring him down to hell bell and turn him Overto over 01 overto to Mima l while the wheels turn and the sparks fly and the Imps work overtime Tho The trouble is' is that Molnar Molnar Mol- Mol Molnar nar nar took his bright Idea and wrote a very ery lull dun play around It The hero then becomes the tile honest sweat of B Belasco's Ils os o's brow For there can be no argument that thit he has labored for love since love since he lie cant can't hope bop to make mako money Something Something Some Some- tI thing like was poured into the tIlO production to say nothing of or a a year of laboratory experiments with Ith U lights and things and eight weeks of rehearsal More than cues are given Iven most of them mechanical al ala a a feat requiring extreme patience In rehearsal let lest some me cog slip sUP S. S S SWings Wings s Over Europe on the other oth oth- er hand requires only the dignified setting of ot No 4 Downing street London where the British cabinet chiefs chles meet There Is no woman inthe inthe Inthe in the play since there Is no love In Interest In- In terest The staggering situation Is this A poetic minded young genius has suddenly harnessed the atom Because Bo- Bo cause he can control energy me he be becan can free treo mankind He lie can change chan gold to clay and disintegrate matter matter matter mat mat- ter he can blow un ut London and anti the world he can free men from fromi t the e slavery of labor and can provide provide pro pro- vide food for all aU The Tho physical millennium is at hand hand no no mines s no gold no strife and worry for forthe forthe forthe the secrets se-crets of or Nature arc are in the thc hands of man Faced with this astounding fact the feeble politicians are unable to grasp it ft Each sees his own petty little place in the sun crumbling away and hi his own petty little Interests in interests In- In being sweat away The messianic young Inventor grows bitter and frantic at their quil- quil bling bUng and threatens to destroy the city unless they come to terms Tense melodrama broods over the thic meeting m tin room TI The tiny humans f tt MI 5 i t I c I Miss Hope Williams top a social is the newest big name nameon on Broadway Below is Leonore Ulrich the Mima of Belasco's modern inferno facing defeat from flom the atom decide de de- de cide clde this is too dangerous a weapon weapOn on to handle They determine to kill the inventor Inventor and do just as ashe ashe ashe he is about to explode the whole earth because he thinks it unfit to continue its groping n way But I the secret has been passed to o two other other oth oth- i er scientists who call the nations nations' of the world to Geneva to to take action and a. a as the he curtain falls faUs death dealing dealIng dealing deal deal- Ing planes roar over London as' as asa a warning to all aU who fail to hee heel heed Drama of of course But with science going at its present r rate te teC of C speed who is to say that this problem m may not be tossed at alt all allour our doors doors' one one- da day lAnd And are we ready teady t to fa face a e Il It C S S I FInally we we have hare a brief briet introduction introduction introduction intro intro- this week m meet t Miss Hope Williams Hers is th the newest big name on Broadway A Ayoung oung lady who came ame out of or the exclusive social so so social cial circles by which I mean the tile people who Inhabit the social register regis regis- register ter tot she first appeared a season ago in Paris Bound Just now nov in Philip Barrys Barry's Holiday Hollday the tho best comedy of the season she has made madea a a. phenomenal personal success and overnight ranks with the leading Broadway performers |