Show Follies ts Girl i FILMS CLOSE BROADWAY BROADW AY HIT Pure hire U t Art Ar t LU lures Lores ts Tout Tone By NOEL THORNTON NEW YORK Feb 27 Making p P Making an unexpected thrust at the drama the films are forcing the closing of a Broadway hit before expected This is Ben Levys Levy's The Devil Passes which has been a play leader for tor twelve weeks and must go on tour while still attracting profitable audi audio The comedy is a peculiar one which demands a n group of ten stars especially especially espe espe- daily cast for their individual roles Diana Wynyard Basil Rathbone Cecelia Cecelia Ce Ceo celia Loftus Robert Loraine Ernest Cossart May Nash and Ernest Thes- Thes singer are among the players Most of at them entered the play with previously signed contracts which demand de dc- mand their early departure for Holly Holly- wood So Producer Arch Selwyn is sending the company out on a quick tour before releasing them to the movies The tour begins in Boston on March 28 9 S 9 The group theater that coterie of youthful stage experiments sponsored last fall b by the Theater guild has been peen set upon its it own and is now an independent theater Having already offered the successful successful successful success success- ful The House of Connolly and the unsuccessful 1931 1931 they now have in production Maxwell Andersons Anderson's newest drama Night Over Taos It was first called City Forgotten Franchot Tone a young oung actor from Buffalo N. N Y who has become one of Broadways Broadway's outstanding leading men has the leading role Tone is constantly offered very lucrative conTacts contracts contracts con- con tracts by other managers and movie companies but he prefers doing experimental ex cx- work with the group the the- ater at a much lower salary 9 Only three new plays are due to arrive next week the first one being the thc Theater guilds guild's production of the Irish drama The Moon and the Yellow Yellow Yellow Yel Yel- low River On the following night Peggy Fears former Follies beauty and now I the wile wife of oC a millionaire movie ma magnate magnate mag mag- nate makes her debut as a Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- I way manager She will wilt present Child I of Manhattan newest play of Preston Proston Pros Pros- ton on Sturges who wrote Strictly Dis Dis- honorable Dorothy Hall Han and Reginald Reginald Regi Regi- Owen have the leading roles 4 I G The Province Provincetown town playhouse resumes resumes re rc- re- re the theatrical season in Greenwich Greenwich Green Green- Village again with a play called Park SPark Avenue Ltd 9 o 0 0 Rosalie Stewart increases the ranks ranks' of women producers on Broadway when she places in rehearsal next week Lester Coles Cole's new play Still StillBorn StillBorn Born I Ione Several years ago Miss Stewart wai wa waione waione one of the towns town's leading manager manageri until she quit to become a vaudeville vaude vaude- ville executive She also is known as the one who discovered Harriet Hoctor the dancer 9 1 9 9 I Now that his production of When the Bough Breaks with Pauline Frederick Fred Fred- erick crick as star is well on its way Arthur Arthur Arthur Ar Ar- thur Lubin is s resuming his program with two new plays One is A Trip to which he purchased from Max lax Reinhardt and the other I Js is Mardi Gras by Flo Fields Within another couple of at fortnights fortnights fort fort- nights Lubin will go to California where he plans to try tryout out two other pew new plays in m the Pasadena playhouse |