Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-05-28 | Page 15 | Amusements

1 A MUS I E iS' iS F NT Nazimova Willi Will Wil Be B in Prize Play Cast D By NOEL THORNTON NEW YORK May 28 The j Th Good Earth will be the first pro duclion of or the Theat Theater r Guild nex next season Owen Davis and anti his son Donald have dramatized Pearl Bucks Buck's Pulitzer prize novel and advance reports reports re reo re- re ports have it that they have turned turne in a good job The Good Earth offers an m unusually un tin- usually difficult task for the dramatist dramatist dram dram- and it Is said the Davis manu mann script is about five times longer tha than the usual play So they will spend the summer whittling it down dow to f fit the customary two hours of playing time Alla Alia Nazimova now touring i in Mourning Becomes Electra n no doubt will have the leading role Philip 1 will direct and Le Lee Simonson is to do dp the settings The second guild offering will b beThe be beThe The Pure in Heart It is from th the pen pc-n of ot John Howard Lawson once one one of those young radical playwrights playwrights play play- wrights who frequented Greenwich Village Villace Now he Is a sedate scenario writer in Hollywood June Walker Is to have the pal part in this and Theresa Helburn will direct There have been tabloid edItions edition of mu musical ical shows and now Chambelain Chamberlain Chamber Chambe lain Brown has gone In for tabloids of dramas They will be played mos mostly most most- ly in the neighborhood theaters theater around New York The first one will be The Barker and Hal lIal Skelly has the role originally played by Walter Huston Skelly hasn't appeared on the sta stage e since sine he and Barbara delighted the town several years ago in Burlesque Burlesque Bur lesque Margaret Hamilton came here from Ohio to give a series of dramatic re rc- rc dials 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 anc ancis and andis is resolved ed not to abandon her re re- re So while continuing in An other Language she is going to give matinees of 01 what she describes as A Melange of Songs Burlesques and Characterizations 9 C COnly Only 15 shows are current on Broad Broadway way vay and 11 of these are arc dramas four FOUl stars are now working In the forties orties these being Jane Cowl Fay Bainter Jainter Leslie Howard and arid Henry Henrj lull HulL Hull Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne Fon Fon- tanne anne are still waltzing in Reunion at Vienna but they are not listed as stars In fact their names wilo will wil willo go o up in lights for the first time when they hey 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 1 willave will wil have lave the leading role in The Boy Friend scheduled for next month Frances Marions Marion's new play Gates Ajar is due for a tryout in Westchester WestChester West West- Chester this summer Katherine Cornell appeared in The Barretts of ol Street for the time Friday night in Kansas City