Show Four Women Responsible for forThe forThe forThe The Old Maid Four brilliant women have collaborated col cal in the production of ot TheOld TheOld The TheOld Old Maid Pulitzer prize play that comes to lo the Paramount on Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day February 3 They are Judith Anderson and Helen Menken fa famous amaus amous a- a maus and celebrated actresses Zoe Akin one of the foremost of American Amer- Amer ican can playwrights and Edith Edilh Wharton Wharton Whar- Whar ton one of the most distinguished novelists It was Miss Whartons Wharton's novelette of ot the same name that furnished Miss ss Akins the dramatist with her herdea idea dea for tor the play Once completed however Miss Akins' Akins play lay forgotten for for- gotten golten otten in her desk for two years ears It t was more than a year ago when Helen Menken her duties in Mary of Scotland at an end visited Hollywood and there encountered Miss Akins During the course o oa of ofa a casual conversation the latter mentioned having made a play from Miss Whartons Wharton's story Mild Mildly I Interested Interested Inter Inter- ested the the- actress adress asked It if she might read it a U-a a request that was readily granted Later It was to Harry Moses whose record of Broadway successes Included Grand Hotel Dangerous Corner and Fou Four Saints In Three Acts that Miss Mis Menken carried the manuscript upon her return to New York His Hi enthusiasm over the work equaled her own A cast was immediately engaged with wilh Judith Anderson se selected se- se to costar with Miss Menken Guthrie McClintic husband of th the glamorous Katharine Cornell and one of the foremost of American directors was designated to stage stag the piece and Stewart Chaney Chancy commissioned commissioned com corn to design I its costumes costume and settings Once it had its premiere at th the Empire theater In New York on one honor after alter another was bestowed upon The Old Maid Mold the most Important Important important Im Im- im- im being of course the Pulitzer Pulitzer zer award In commenting upon that award Stark Slark Young one o othe ot of the Pulitzer committee after praisIng praising Ing the merit of the play said o oits of ofUs its Us two stars tars Nowhere in town is there so fine an example of two players in combination as i iThe in inThe inThe The Old Maid |