Show Ar n t I I I N 11 O IV nl L b 2 I I il i Theatrical World Is Well Represented in Social Register I Although More Actresses Than Actors Adora Are Arc Admitted NEW EW IOnI Playwrights and theatrical producers are for one oie rea reason or another not ot expected to toI tobo II I be bo society figures I i capable of ot crashIng crash crash- I P. P In Ing the Social I Register or the Book Yet tho name of ot b 1 Winthrop Ames cnn can b bo be found in inthis 4 t this his 1 1 S sacrosanct document an and so 80 can that of ot WInton Win Win- ton Ion who with ith Alex Aarons puts on peppy gal shows show S I To be be- sure the aide eldo of ot the tho tho theatrical at r I c a I worM world ha has been well ell represented in Inthe tho the social calendars of ot several sea sea- EOn sons Hope Williams stepped right out of ot tho the register roles in Paris Bound and a couple of other successes Ilka Chase tho the screen n player Is another allotted amusingly enough to to chorine and gold digging roles whose New York window looks out outon outon outon on exclusive Sutton place Beatrice Lille who is a a. superior clown and loves nothing better than to sing tho the costermonger typo of ot song ong Is really Lady Peel In fn private life liCe Julia Hoyt and half halt a dozen others S have graduated from tho the Manhattan salons Its It's different however with themen the thc themen men of ot tho the theatre S Ames baa hai for years rears put on the I better sort of ot production And Aarons and Fre Freedley dle ha have reduced tow low com comedy d to a 3 high art Their music shows are nr Invariably In among amont I tho the per peppiest pl t to be found on the t length and breadth of or the Broadway belt Yet is one of or tho the f few feu Broadway Y figures for whom th doors of or tho the European Europen Who eagerly erl open He Ue Is considered red tho the best dressed producer on tho the main stem end nd hi I is b a of ot good taste and ami One of ot the more sue suc- pe antI and Interesting r Broadway tale l IC If you ou ak ask me mt II n ITs b became tnt r l In tn dramatic whilo attending tt Harvard put Iut on J hoI how there nd th then n returned to hi hl native Philadelphia When he took tho the train for New IL II York It was as ns with a 0 sheaf sliest of letters I from Crom important people In iu his hilS pocket They did him little if It nn any good hood lie IIo began haunting tho the offices of oC William Brad Brady Somehow his man many recommendations didn't get Jet him past tho the waiting w room Quito Quite be be- b by his reception he ho started start start- cd ed out only to run headlong at the doorway Into Grace G George This led to a brief brier conversation and by this accident ho found himself In lit tho the presence of or Brad Brady A few weeks later he lie was given a a. chanco to re rehearse re- re hearse His efforts efforts In in association with to to break brcak into Inlo tile the producing business were met suet at it first with disastrous db- db dis- dis results because they went In for hen heavy V dramatics Their first production was a most distressing flop nop Then they got into musical shows show and have hae been going gain strong ever since S And speaking of or theatrical al matters matters mat mat- ter theres there's ono one playwright ht who always gives his home homo town the first break brenk Its It's Smith and the tho home port Is la Hartford But nut then most of oC the boys bos and came from outside towns or from small lt be beginnings s. s S Anno Anne Nichols who made a considerable con con- able fortune from Able was waa wasa a mere mero stock company compan player for years Edgar EelS Selwyn Sel Eel wyn was one of oC 5 5 Hollywoods Hollywood's earll- earll I- I lest Ic t figures figures and and recently tossed tOil a e d e over his 1118 theatrical eat cal Interests to so ro back there Ho Ito S was liS by the way ay first of ot th the sheiks In The Arab David you ou will recall S I played burlesque villain ln roles in Weber and Fields' Fields earlier music shows how On Owen Oen en D Davis Is ls appears to be not tonly one ot or tho the more moro prolific play pUy- rights but rather In supplying sup sup- plying tho the th theatre atre with his progeny I Owen Davis ls Jr has been a n player of or Ju Juvenile nU for severn and Davis Is will have hava his first play pr presented thin i season en on GILBERT GILHERT SWA- SWA Copyright ht 1930 NEA jA Service ervice In Inc |