Show AMUSEMENT i Nazimova WillBe Will WillBe WillBe Be in Prize Play Cast By Ty NOEL THORNTON NEW YORK May 28 P The Thc The Good Earth will be the first production production pro pro- of the Theater r Guild next season Owen Ov Davis and anti his son Donald have dramatized Pearl Bucks Buck's Pulitzer prize novel and advance reports reports re re- re ports have it that they have turned in a good job The Good Earth offers an Unusually unusually un Un- usually difficult task for the dramatist dram drain and it is said the Davis manuscript manuscript manuscript manu manu- script is about five times longer than the usual play So 50 they will spend the summer whittling it down to fit tit the customary two hours of playing time Alla Alia Nazimova now touring in Mourning Becomes Electra no doubt will wUl have the leading role Philip will direct and Lee LeeS S Simonson monson is to do the settings The second guild offering will be beThe beThe beThe The Pure in Heart It Is from the pen of John Howard Lawson once one of those young radical playwrIghts playwrights playwrights play play- wrights who frequented Greenwich Village Now he is a sedate scenario writer In Hollywood June Walker is to have the principal principal pal part in this and Theresa Helburn will direct There have been tabloid editions of musical shows snows and now Chamberlain Chamber Chamber- lain Brown has gone in for tabloids of dramas They The They will wUl be played mostly mostly most most- ly in the neighborhood theaters theaters' around New York The first one will be The Barker and Hal Skelly has the role originally played by Walter Huston Skelly hasn't appeared on the stage since he and Barbara delighted the town several years ago in Burlesque Burlesque Burlesque Bur lesque 0 Margaret Hamilton came here from Ohio to give a series of dramatic re rc re- re Instead she went on the stage and her performance in Another Language Language Language Lan Lan- guage won her overnight fame But she is a determined woman and andis andis is resolved not to abandon her recitals re re- re So So while continuing in Another Another Another An other Language she is going to give matinees of what she describes as A Melange of Songs Burlesques and Characterizations a a Only 15 shows are current on Broadway Broadway Broad Broad- way and 11 of these are dramas Four stars are now working in the forties these being Jane Cowl Fay Bainter Leslie Howard and Henry Hull Alfred Allred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne Fon Fon- tanne are still waltzing in Reunion at Vienna but they are not listed as stars In fact their names will go up in lights for the f first time when they appear with Noel Coward next January in that new comedy he has written for the three of them Margaret Sullavan and she gets angry if you spell It with an i will have the leading role in The Boy BoyFriend BoyFriend Friend scheduled for next month Frances Marions Marion's new play Gates I. I Ajar is due for a tryout in Westchester Westchester West West- chester this summer Katherine Cornell appeared in inThe The Barretts of Street for the time Friday night in Kansas City |