Show Shakespeare Play Pays Pars Musical Show Profits Prof I NEW YORK Feb 26 CA A S to suffer a lo loss In her first venture in Shakespeare Katharine Cornell o of Romeo week 12 run has ended crded a and Juliet with gross rece receipts comparable com corn I parable to to- those those of a musical com corn ed edy suC- suC success S Our final week reached said ld the thC star who last night returned I to the crinoline of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Bar Bar- r rett in Iii The Barretts Barrett of making romance Street her bet money of ot the Drowning Brownings We drew over oer a quarter of at a million mU mil lion dollars in our 12 weeks she said sald The Thc last week we had people standing at every performance So great was the tile public response that we extended the pl play y five w weeks ks beyond beyond beyond be be- yond our schedule Not since John Barrymore's historic his his- tone nights of Hamlet has Shakespearean Rrean drama been so prof prof- table liable it was pointed out Miss Cornell's determination to lo withdraw Romeo and Juliet in favor of The Barretts Barretta was to conform conform con con- form with her announced plan to do four plays plaS here this season aBon Great as her enthusiasm for lor Shakespeare now is the actress often called the theaters theater's first lady w will undertake no more of his works for lor two seasons ns I want to play some modern roles between my roy appearances in classic characters she explained Eventually Eventually ally I hope to present Macbeth Antony and Cleopatra and possibly Much Ado About Nothing S t Katharine Cornell |