Show Broadway Honors Ethel Barrymore Starting Year Year on Stag Stage By Walter Winchell Ethel Barrymore 40 40 years yean a tar star on Feb 7 She has been a star In New York longer than any other active play play- er Her first starring vehicle was Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines Marines Ma Ma- rines by Clyde Fitch at atthe the Carrick Garrick Car Car- Ma 1 rick tick theater Three days after the opening on February 4 1901 Charles Frohman put her name In lights In those days the press dubbed her The rhe typical American girl The Corn Is Green Creen her current hit lIlt Is her seventh fifty-seventh production In New York Her first appearance before a New York audience was at the Em Em- pire In 1894 in The Bauble Shop She was understudy dy to Elsie de deWolf deWolf deWolf Wolf and went on for her one midweek midweek mid mid- week matinee Her uncle John JohnDrew JohnDrew Drew was star of the production The papers of ot that era had her engaged to Lawrence Irving son of Sir Henry Irving In whose company company com corn pany she played before before- becoming an American star She was also reported engaged to the duke of ot Manchester the Earl of Alva Sir Robert Peel the prince of Ranjit- Ranjit and RI Richard a Harding arding Davis During the town out tryout of Jinks In Philly her home burg It Is recorded that a gallery god called out We loved your grandmother grand mother Ethel and we love Jove you youl Charles Frohman thought the play playa a flop nop before he brought It to town Then she was living modestly on the top floor of a Thirty-second Thirty street theatrical boarding house When she was made a star she moved downstairs three flights Now she lives In a penthouse on onI I East street and has a country I home In Mam Mamaroneck She was the first New York star to Install a private telephone backstage backstage back back- sta stage e In her dressing room She Shedid Shedid Shedid did it after the birth of her son Sammy Colt as she wanted to keep In touch with his nurse while she was working i She tried to discourage her herI I daughter Ethel Barrymore Colt from becoming an actress by asI assigning assigning as as- I signing her a role which required her to begrime her pretty face with black grease paint for a season In Scarlet Sister Mary She has never seen the me only talkIng talkIng talking talk- talk Ing movie she made which brought brothers John and Lionel together with her for the first time However she Is an avid movie fan and never misses any films flIms her brothers make snake Despite the fact that Maurice Barrymore was her father and Georgie Drew her mother It took Ethel six months of pavement pounding and office sitting before she landed a Job and then It was with her uncle John Drew Miss Barrymore has predicted be beher beher beher that The oThe Corn Is Green will her last role as she expects it to torun torun I run on for years At the present pace Ilace this Herman production production production pro pro- which has played to S. S R. R O. O only will no doubt f fulfill fulfil her hopes for It The line most often associated with her comes from o Sunday unda a play which she acted with John Barrymore and which Is the basis for the daytime soap opera on the theether theether ether Our Gal Sunday The line of course Is Is all there Is Is there Isn't any more Unlike most of her fellow stars I she revels In touring Home Bome Is where she's playing and she In In- 4 tends to stick with The r Corn Green Creen until It has played i stand left in America The Df Dt and the were to n i ones quit a show That's all the room til plenty more room 2 II Copyright 1941 Dally Dally- J |