Show Pauline Lord Back to Stage T T T. T T Hegira to Northwest Is Dramatized ii Theater Bus Business Better I By NOEL THORNTON NEW YORK Jan 16 Pauline P ff Paulin Lord she of ot Anna Christie fame lame re returns returns re-I re re- re turns to Broadway next week professing professing pro pro- lessing a newborn love for the theater thea thea- ter A year of retirement she quit th the stage when she was married has ha given iven her an increased enthusiasm fo for her profession The duties of or domesticity domesticity domes domes- were not enough for fOl this soft voiced heroine of Stran Strange e Inter Inter- lude ude I was away for a year and I missed the theater she explains I suddenly discovered that I liked everything ev cv- about it I liked the people he the rehearsals I liked the fittings going over de designs igns for the clothes and discussing the play that used I I like now everything to o tire me Earl Early and late rehearsals dont don't bother me rae any more The strain and nd tension are goneI gone cone I used to get so nervous am and worked up wondering what I would do o if I weren't good if the thc pIa play didn't get ct over That doesn't trouble me now If everything ng isn't a success I 1 Ian Ican can an feel that at least I had fun doing it iL Miss Lord will open Monday night in n Distant Drums a drama of or the Oregon California rush in 1849 Dan Danis is the author and he has taken his material from adventures of f his own mother and father who trekked across the continent to Oreon Ore Ore- gon on during the gold rush S 9 Three other new productions arrived ar- ar rived ived Monday Monda one of them being the first of oC a series o of special matinees ot of f Lady Windermere's Fan The haired golden Catharine Dale Owen recruited from the talkies has the leading role Queenie Smith brings in a new musical mu mu- comedy called coiled The Little Racketeer and downtown in fri th the Provincetown theater there will b be offered an nn negro all-negro play called The Marriage of Cann Cana Tuesday night Ernest Truex deserts the musical review stage for another of his farce comedies this thi one being Whistling in the Dark His leading woman oman will ill be Mrs l Truex the erstwhile erst erstwhile while Sara Sora Jane of The Little Show chorus cho us J John hn Golden on the following evening eveS eve ning will turn his theater over to Captain Billy Bryant and his famous Show Boat troupe These visitors from the Ohio and Mississippi rivers arc up here herc to play Ten Nights in a and md Hamlet Hamlet Ham Barroom East let lel e 0 Broadways Broadway's extensive list of hus- hus wife teams will be augmented by jy another next wc weck when Geoffrey Kerr and June Walker begin bein rehearsing rehears rehear Ing ng opposite each other in Collision Collision Col Ision This is a German play pIny being adapted by John Anderson dramatic critic The last time Mr and Mrs Kerr played together was wa in David Belasco's Be- Be asco's lascos production of ot The Thc Bachelor Father Business in the theater is steadily Improving When Leslie Howard opened in The Animal Kingdom this his week seats scats were almost imposible impossible impossible sible ible to be had Mrs Joseph I Leblang blang who controls most of the theatrical ticket agencies called up a friend who is a dramatic critic asking askin him to use his influence to o buy a scat seat for the opening as she wanted to see the show herself In all atI her numerous agencies there wasn't a ticket to be had |