Show f D 10 THE J' Author of Famous SALTlAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY ORNING Chaplin Party on Pacific Cruise for Rest As Broadway’s By CHARLOTTE KNIGHT “Winterset” Maxwell Anderson’s tragic dram& in blank verse now in Its 21st big week at the beautiful Martin Beck theater In New York still remains the critics' City favorite among the sefious dramas of the year in spite of some serious competition with “Dead End” and more recently “Ethan Frome” The play opened September 25 and has one of the longest runs of the season to Its credit This excellent piece of dramaturgy Anderson’s first “modern” work In blank verse is heralded as one of the greatest plays ever written by Broadway’s famous drama critics those dictators of the theater who alone decide the fate of hundreds of New York’s plays every year When every one of Manhattan’s critics doffed his inked hat to the “most important play of the season" it was assured Immediate success with the safe promise that its name would be in electric lights off Times Square for many long months to come And justly So for “Winterset" is recognized as one of “Writing should be an overflow of energy” says Thornton Wilder who acquired fame with the appearance of “The Bridge of San Luis Rey" and who is to come as the next lecturer on the Master Minds and Artists series “Style is one’s attempt to satisfy exactly one’s impulses Every book is subjective and an author cannot afford to be One should be his own first and last audience and the fault in America is that people write mostly for their audiences” Although Mr Wilder announces that he has decided to write another novel he believes that the novel is declining as an artistic medium and that drama will become predominant as the vehicle to succeed the narrative form Considering it the highest form of art he plans also to write a play and defines drama as pure action without editorial comment needing no aside observations Asked recently what kind of drama he expects to write Mr Wilder replied “As in my books I suppose I’ll write comedy and it will turn out to be serious" That was the case he says in “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” and “Heaven's My Destination” They were to be comedies and turned out to be serious Setting out to write something light Invariably fails he says because he is concerned with the fundamentals with the mystery of Esther ofEvdashin pupil of Beckyof the McCune School death and judgment the tragedy and Almond Music and Art will be presented in beauty and pity of the finale of life's her graduation recital Friday at comedy Mr Wilder is to speak at Kings- 8:15 p m at the Ladies’ Literary club In 1933 Miss Evdashin rebury hall on Monday March 2 under ceived a diploma from the McCune the auspices of the extension dischool in recognition of her musivision of the University of Utah cal accomplishments and in May of this year will be awarded her bach- Federal Orchestra Becoming Active Week’s Music Calendar elor of music degree She is one of the youngest students to be graduated from the school and has shown great talent in the years she has studied under She is a performer Miss Almond of brilliance and has developed technique of considerable advancement In F aharp Chopin sharp minor Chopin In B flat Polonaise Chopin Miss Frisby is the daughter of Prelude In C Prokofieff major Mr and Mrs LcRoy Frisby 841 Ken- The Island Spell Ireland Forest Murmurs (Waldesrauschen) sington avenue Salt Lake City She Dance of the Gnomes (Guomenreigen ) Llsat is a 1934 graduate of the South high Liszt l Falla Waltz school won Buggert and a music scholarthe annual music contest ship held at the Brigham Young university She registered at that school at the beginning of the next school year and since then has become a member of the university symphony orchestra and at present Js the secretary of the organization The program to be given is as folIn lows: Fantlle Three piano students of Mrs Agnes Dahlquist Beckstrand will present the program for the concert at the Art Barn Sunday at 4 p m it Is announced by Miss Marie Fox chairman of the music committee The public is cordially invited to hear the program Alice Fox violinist will assist the pianists who are Ruth Pearson Miriam Bishop and Kent Evans The program follows: Hongrolse Onitimscher Reverie (with organ accompaniment B C Taueonler Requlem—Adaclo David Popper (For three ’cellos and 1 Miss Bailiff and Professorpiano) Buggert 8onat Op 10 assisting con brio Allegro srenade Badlne Gabriel Marie Moonlight Sonata Mr Healer accompanist on organ — Bong to the Evening Star from ‘Taon- Praeludlum a min 4 for piano by Llszl Tarantella1 w! HW8‘quire Two-Par- Arranged t Inventions Nos Music will be provided under For Annual Fete Of Choral Groups 8 and 14 st part: Janice Crump Junior Frost Wayne Crump Leon Frost Laura Beth Crump La Ree Turner June Beckstead Louise McFarlane La Rue Webb Valoris Webb Maurine Webb Nona Freeman David Naylor and Beulah Madsen Academy Musicians Iji Grieg Program MT PLEASANT— Presenting an program the Vivace Music club of Wasatch academy will be heard in recital in the auditorium of Craighead hall Sunday at Ladies’ Choruses of Salt Lake City is to take place on Saturday March 28 according to announcement of officials The association comprises the five ladies' choruses: Bel Canto with Avon A Price as director Elysian Beatrice Davies director Venecia George C Lloyd C director Allegro Kearns Ferre director and the Symphony Singers under the direction of Lesley Goates The membership totals approximately' 150 voices These young women have been rehearsing diligently as individual groups for a number of weeks past They will hold a joint rehearsal at the Eighteenth ward chapel on Sunday at 4 p m the first for the combined groups All members are expected to be in attendance Rehearsals will be held regularly each Sunday until the date of the concert The following selections Czlbulka Abt Otco Fesca Goetz Vera Clavton soprano Come With the Gvpsy Bride (from "The Bohemian Girl") Balfe Tho Swallows Cowan v Dancers Call of the May-DChapman Chorus Selections Double Male Quartet Selected Organ solos Wade N Stephens Ardltl Ecstasy Wl Um (A Pueblo Lullaby) Lieurauce Chorus Selected Baritone solos P Melvin Peterson Nevin Vcnetlon Suite Dawn In the Gondola Venetian Love Song Farewell Chorus on Monday March 2 beand 10 p m — As- - yet- - not— enough- - material Is look Mozart available but plans formulated Concerto In C minor toward the organization of smaller Mrs Lester Hinchcliff Miss Kaneko musical ensembles trios and quarOGDEN— Members of the Or- tets at some future date accordpheus club of Salt Lake City a male ing to Mr Beales chorus of 45 voices will give a concert at the L D S Eighteenth ward chapel Wednesday at 8 p m The chorus will be directed by Albert J Southwick and Mrs Vera Frey Beason will be the accomt school tween 9 south on Fifth East street evening The choir is under the direction of James Arno Kirk-hawith Mrs Emma G Reese and Rosj B Lewis accompanists of the Mrs Reese is manager choir with other officers as folNegro People to lows: William H Dunn assistant secreM Radley manager pharles Observe National tary and treasurer The program will be as follows: panist Rouse Oh Ye Mortals Stephens The concert is for the benefit of Week With Concert Choir To Him Who Rules on High (arr by B the ward organ fund and also for C Gates) Braga activities of the ward Relief soChoir National Negro History week is Mrs Reese Musical Prelude Miss Lewis ciety to be celebrated by the Negro citiSacramental Music Majesty of the Deep follows: The program Homer Candish zens of Salt Lake City with a conMiss Lewis organ Sarah Dennison piano Song of the Jolly Roger Grieg cert to be given at the Trinity A W W Wells Ave Marla Stella My Faith In Thee Cooke Choir Swing Along M E church 246 East Sixth South chords Beautiful Land on High Taylor Erl tre (Would’st Thou) Masked Ball street on Wednesday at 8:30 p m Reese Mrs contralto soloist Verdi Bov Wetherly Lamij A chorus of 25 voices will be heard William Post Relief Society Ladles’ Chorus Bliss in Negro spirituals southern meloRedman's Last Chant director Eleanor Edglngton A Campbell-TiptoKreisler Flower The Old Refrain Spirit Branms dies and other compositions by NeChoir Lullaby Meale gro writers Mv Father and God While I strav Marston Drums Miss Bernice Young Chorus Out of the Dusk to You Dorothj Lee Leucona will be accompanist tenor Clyde L William A Thompson Malaguena Vera Frey Beasott tenor James Arno Raddon second The members of the chorus are to Steal Awav Kirkham Spiritual baritone A M Audreasou costumes Santa Lucia basso Neapolitan be attired in Southern Melodies similar to those worn in the days MacFarlane Southern Memories Open Our Eyes Home ou the Range Choir Cowboy song when the spirituals sprang ipto exSullivan The Lost Chord Choru A Chip of the Old Block Relief Society Ladies' Chorus Squire istence A male quartet will appear Gounod Praise Ye the Father (By request) for the first time singing a variety Mr Southwick Choir Schubert of selections Speakers for the eveSerenade Foote Bedouin Song Clarence J Hawkins bandmaster ning will be the Rev C C Spencfer Chorus Gail Martin and S W Henderson of the University of Utah will preOGDEN— Sempre Musical society The program will include the folsent a number of the pupils of his school for wind instruments in re- will have a “guest day’’ at its meet- lowing numbers: Southern melodies: cital Wednesday at 7:30 p m in the ing to be held Thursday at 3 p m “Old Black Joe” “Old Folks at in the Utah Power and Light audi- Home” “My Old Kentucky Home” Music hall on the campus “Oh Peter Go From the woodwind division in- torium Mrs Verdi Pingree will be Negro spirituals: Dem Bells” “Chilly Water” Ring cluding clarinet flute saxophone chairman of the day Professor Mark Robinson Is to and “It’s Oh Lord” by the soloists the following will be heard: Eldon Romney Richard Cornelison give a resume of “Italian Opera and chorus Quartet numbers: “Carry to Ole Virginny” and Dow Young Eldon Hunt Howard the Development of French Opera Me Back to the Time of Gounod” The “MaSsa’s in de Cold Cold Groun” Armstrong Simon Zuniga Venita Up program will be as follows: vocal solos by Mrs Lucil Bank-heaWhite David Ensign Howard Hold- musical Gounod First Seen® from "Faust” “Bye and Bye” “Somebody’s ing Charles Tyndale Wayne Alsop Professor Robinson baritone Glen L Hanson bass Knockin at Yo’ Do’” and “Deep Charles Rudy Bruce McBherson Jewel Gounod Song from ‘Faust’ River” Quartet numbers: “Go Down Jack Gardner Jack Newton Jay Edna Hardv soprano Gounod Moses” “Oh Wasn’t Dat a Wide Serenade Mephistopheles’ Jex and George Hinckley Mr Hansou will participate Finale from ' Faust" Gounod River” “Down by the River Side’’ The following Robinson and Hanson: Miss Hardy and from the division of brasses in- Messrs “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” Vocal solo Ye Gods of Night (AJceate) Gluck Vocal solos by Mrs D W Stanley: cluding cornet and trombone: RobCarma Douglass Gone ”Po’ Pilgrim" and “John’s ert Doidge Chase Hoffman Gail Down on de Island” Spirituals: “Oh Lindstrom Benson Edwards Daniel Mary Don’t You Weep” “What Zuniga LeRoy Johnston Ralph Dal-b- y Kind o’ Shoes” “Mary apd Martha’’ Joseph Ensign Keith Parkin Original Operetta and “Steal Away to Jesus” by the Gordon Gatherum Wallace Gudgdl At Mt Pleasant chorus Grover Rawlings Dorothy Rawlings Fred Killer Doral Jex Ottis Kirk will be comprised in the program: “Watchman’s Song" by Eloise Deck: ’Puck” Leona Burt: “Elfin Dance” “March of the Dorothy Jones Dwarfs” Charles Albright “MornBowen and ing Mood" Mildred Whitmore Marilyn "Solvejg’s Song” Beverly Jones “Dance Caprice” Alberta Hardy “Butterflies” Marjorie Jones “To Spring” EveAt the Sunday 6:30 p m service lyn Ashton "Wedding Day at of the Twenty-sixt- h ward the GerJean Hillabrant man L D S choir will furnish a special musical program The principal speaker for the evening will - Arabian Notable be R Stoff former head of the Victor Jose Sabuni stand-i- n for South American missions The ward Francis Lederer star of “One Rainy chapel is at the corner of Seventh Afternoon” Pickford-Lasky’- s first South and Ninth West streets The program will be as follows: production is the son of the disSelected tinguished Marquis Mohammed Ah- Soprano solo Louise Olelov med Ega Sabuni one of the highest Let The'r Celestial Concert All Handel Arabian nobles living He has duly I'nitcd Choir Sullivan authenticated documents to prove The Lost Chord Handel And the Glory of 'the Lord it Choir Trold-haugen- ( er Schumanti-Llsz- Bach Sunday 8:15 p: m Third annual concert of the Chorus Claudius Doty Bach 1621 ) Mrs Lily H Palmer will present a group of her pupils in a piano recital Sunday at 7:30 p m in the Bluffdale auditorium Rhea Bring-hurvocalist will assist Music lovers are cordially invited to hear the program The following pupils will take Date Scheduled tenor Activities 9 Considered at Music Council Meet the direction of Robert Fisher The music council executive board end advisory committee will meet at 11:30 a m to take under consideration the awarding of several scholarships in piano and voice which have been offered by some of our best professional music instructors This year the council has awarded seven scholarships carrying $100 each Mrs Elmer B Corfman president announces that this meeting is open not only to delegates but to all who are interested in furthering the plans of the council Memberships are granted upon application to the executive board In Springtime O Happy Day mezzo Ogden’s Musical Spring Night In an exchange of programs the Phvlils Whittier Wells ward choir will give a con- Piano solo: Japanese Lullabv — Beethoven cert at the - Waterloo "ward chapel : Federal Music Will ect” Ida Hepworth Morn Rise Hummer Days An Old Love Beethoven Prelude Op 28 No 20 Chopin "A Prayer” Claire de 1& Lune Debussy Puck Grieg Miss Pearson II Be Impromptu Op 28 No 2 C minor Reluhold If 1 Were a Bird Op 2 No 6 Adolph von Henselt Miss Bishop Concerto A major No 5 Mozart A e Marla Schubert Mfas Fox Miss Bishop accompanist III Reginald Beales state director Op 0 No 1 Chopin for the W P A federal music proj- Nocturne Fantasle Kent Evans ect will be the speaker at the reg- Melody Pattern Kent Evans Birds at Dawn Fannie Dillon ular monthly meeting of the Salt Blue Flame r Koscal Yamada Lake Music council which is to be Chimes of the Dawn from Ten Short Poems for piano held Monday at 10 a m at the Prelude Op 28 No 24 Chopin Civic Center 149 tg Regent street Prelude Op 22 No 22 Chopin Mr Evans y His subject will be “Who Is Eligible to Enroll in the Federal Music Proj- Lund This chorus was organized 17 years ago and was directed by Professor Lund until the time of his death last year Present director is Miss Ivie Ensign and the accomHer program contains variety rep- panist is Rosalia Madsen Hovey There is no charge for the conresenting the classical and romantic periods and as well some modern cert which the public is invited to works attend The program will include: Redeemer Marchettl The public Is cordially Invited to Holy The KIiir of Love Lange hear the following program: Lift Thine Ee (from 'Elijah") French Suite No ft Mendelssohn Chorus Bach Wglrintetn Sonata Op 53 Beethoeif The bnpiR’e of Love ( Boccaccio") PROVO— Miss Stella Frisby 'celof the Brigham Young univeris to be heard in a recital Mori-da- y at 8 p m in College hall She will be accompanied on the organ or piano by J J Keeler university organist Assisting artists will be Miss Carma Ballif and Professor Gustave Impromptu Valae In C list sity H Z LOS ANGELES HARBOR— “Run Under the capable supervision of ning away for a while” that’s what Reginald Beales state director the n celluloid federal music project initiated unHollywood’s waifs Charlie Chaplin and Paulette der the W P A is now well adGoddard his leading lady in his vanced about twenty musicians of current release are pictured as ac- the state having been given employcomplishing They are aboard the ment in keeping with their special Mr Beales believes also Dollar liner President Coolidge talents bound for “Pacific ports” They left that the scope of the project may Hollywood on an impulse barely be expanded later catching the boat and headed for The chief accomplishment is the Mrs Alta Goddard organization of a federal orchestra Honolulu mothej of Miss Goddard (center) comprising 14 pieces the members is aecdmpanying them being musicians of ability who have had considerable professional practice but whose talents during the economic crisis have unavoidably been diverted into other channels Seven violins two clarinets trumpet trombone drums and tympani and piano form the orchestra with also an organist available Mr OGDEN— Friends of members of Beales hopes that very shortly it the Ogden Song society will be en- will be possible to augment this tertained by the organization at a instrumentation by a cello brasses recital at Glen Brothers hall Satur- and wind instruments day at 8:15 p m This will be the Rehearsals are held regularly at annual Federation night and it is 61 South Main street Mr Beales expected that Mrs Claribel W Wal- devoting much time to training of lace president of the Utah Federa- the group requiring that a good tion of Music clubs and other of- grade of music be offered The orficers of the state and county will chestra is available upon request for functions of a public character be special guesfs Mrs C C Ferrin and Mrs Gil- not for private affairs and where bert Porter will be hostesses and there is no competition with other extend an invitation to all persons musical organizations The federal ensemble has already interested in music and federation and work to attend Light refreshments made several appearances will be served others have been arranged for this The program with Mrs Ronald coming week and later It is to Rosevear and Lester Hinchcliff as appear on Wednesday from 9 to 10 p m at the Roosevelt school playaccompanists follows: Reeve ing for the adult education classes Serenade Violin solo Mr Herman Fetscher On Thursday evening a program Piano solos Reflection on the Water Debussy will be given at a meeting of the Dc Falla Fire Dance Parent-Teachassociation at the Ada Waldron Vocal solos school The orchestra Jefferson Verdi Nome from "Rlpoletio" Caro Dvorak will play for the adult education Songs My Mother Taught Me Lillian Eastman classes at the Jordan junior high Piano solo best-know- In memory of the late Professor Anthony C Lund former tabernacle choir leader on the occasion1 of the anniversary of his birth a concert will be given in the Thirty-firs- t ward meetinghouse Ninth East and Thirteenth South streets by the Ladies’ chorus on Monday at 815 p m Tracy Y Cannon will be tile speaker giving tribute to “Our Friend” with response made for the family by Dr ’’ j a-- d: Enf LEASANT— “The Isle1” an of Chopin MOUNT chanted operetta At the Salt Lake Theatres Critics Hailed ‘Winterset’ Shortly to City Provo Student to Appear in Recital FEBRUARY 23 1936 Music Stage and Screen News ‘Bridge’ Coming objective 9 melodies arranged by Ira B Wilson will be presented by the music department of Wasatch academy at an early date Carl Petersen is directing the production Principal roles will be sung by Couch Charles Albright Evelyn Carol Collins Rex Syndergaard Jack Andersen Beverly Jones Irene Turner Camille Holman Harold Irons Upton Ramsey Steele Bailey Vincent Rasmussen Fred Llewellyn Dale Simpson and Glen Rasmussen Piano Artist Will Assist Orchestra Greatest Play the greatest and most momentous dramas to come’across the footlights within our time The gist of the critical opinion can be seen in such remarks as Gilbert W Gabriel’s in the New York American: “‘Winterset’ is Maxwell Anderson’s finest play and one of the finest plays which any American has ever written There are several ways to bolster a superlative my way can only be to repeat it: is without doubt and with all due regard for all the earnest innovators and expert adapters who do dignify the dramatists’ profession in our midst today one of the finest plays which any American has ever written” According to Burns Mantle “has an eloquence the native drama seldom attains It commands an exalted beauty of line and scene that holds an audience that is startled into wonder a little breathless and misty-eyed- " Theater Arts Monthly contributes this to the general acclaim: “It is one of the most exciting melodramas one of the noblest poetic plays one of the hardest-hWin-ters- “Win-terse- itting straightest-fightin- g t” cru- sading dramas against the fruits of injustice ever presented on the American stage” Brooks Atkinson critic of the New York Times concludes his panegyric: “Remember ‘Winterset’ It has helped to set the die for the future of our stage" The play was produced by Guthrie McCiintic prominent director and producer who also staged “The Old Maid” “Ethan Frome” “Yellow Jacket” and the Katherine Cornell productions of “Romeo and Juliet1 “The Barretts of Wimpole Street’’ He starred Richard Bennett and Burgess Meredith in his “Winterset” cast The settings were designed by Jo Mielziner and are of such star tling and magnificent proportions that Mr Atkinson says they should be exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art One scene reveals the high majestic tower of Brooklyn bridge in a setting that is as poetic as inspiring and as interpretative as the drama it contains As soon as the current engagement of “Wintersetnjs completed on Broadway the play will go on tour playing in Boston Philadelphia Chicago Washington and other eastern and middlewestern cities according to the producers ’Winterset” Is to be produced at Kingsbury hall while it is still running on Broadway on March 6 by the Theta Alpha Phi players under the direction of Professor Joseph F Smith Mail orders are already being received by Gail Plummer manager of the hall Tahitian Stars Attract to Paramount “Last of the Pagans" a romance of south sea native life filmed a year’s expedition to Tahiti by Richard Thorpe U the Paramount theater’s current attraction A saga of the primitive life of a vanishing race of Polynesians the picture’s script was authored by John Villlers Farrow who for some years lived among the natives The story unfolds on a remote coral island of the few left untouched by modern civilization It deals with a charming native love story of a boy and girl through separated through the trickery of white traders and reunited the heroism of the young warrior Played amid scenes of breath-takin- g beauty the picture covers the gamut of island life from its intimate family existence to its most dramatic moments when the men battle sea monsters in their own element Among these thrilling interludes is a fight to the finish between a daring young diver and a swordfish and the hero’s clash with one of the most dangerous animals on the islands the wild boar Mala the native star who made his debut on the screen in W S Van Dyke’s “Eskimo" plays the romantic lead with a native beauty Lotus A cast of five thousand Polynesians take in "Little part in the colorful story Spanky and the Our Gang kiddies bill which the Papa” a new comedy is a special added attraction on Grantland Rice has a technicolor cartoon “The Cat Came Back” a sportlight and Fox Movietone news Action and Thrills Plentiful at Victory new Hopafong Cassidy story starring William Boyd “Bar 20 Rides Again” tops the Victory theater’s current program With the companion picture “Born for Glory” it wjll end Sunday night making way for a second big bill Monday Including “Hitch Hike Lady” and “Dressed to Thrill” starring Clive Brook and Tutta Rolf “Bar 20 Rides Again” carries on the adventures of the two-gu- n Clarence E Mulford hero this time facing the most sinister villain of the old west — an outlaw called “Nevada” who divides his time between cattle rustling and cheating at cards When the boys from the Bar 20 learn that Nevada has beqn victimizing a fellow rancher they ride after the rustler to engage in a thrilling battle of wits and six guns Jimmy Ellison has the romantic lead yvith Jean Rouveroi former Salt Lake City girl who is making a name for herself in pictures Harry Worth George Hayes and Frank McGlynn Jr are featured “Born for Glory” is hailed as a “Big Parade” of the sea Filmed with the full cooperation of the British admiralty it tells a thrilling story of naval ideals and heroism opening in 1893 with the romance of a pretty shopkeeper’s daughter and a young naval lieutenant Refusing to marry a business acquaintance chosen by her father the girl leaves home with the young officer and in the years that follow brings up her son to all the proud traditions of the sea The dramatic scenes occur during the World war when the boy proves his mettle at sea Completing the bill are a cartoon “Plane Dippy” and Metrotone sound news A fast-movi- two-featu- re Capitolites Convulsed by New Westicisms new story of the Mae West is back in town with a laugh-treate- d gold rush of '98 “Klondike Annie” The picture opened Saturday at the Capitol theater and already the new “Westicisms” are in the air Her “It can be arranged” may even take the place of “Come up and see me some time” the world-famophrase from “She Done Him Wrong" Victor McLaglen is costar in the rousing story opening in San Francisco in the colorful days when the Barbary coast flourished in full flower Mae appears as a capricious charmer known as the “Frisco Doll” who suddenly decides she should be in Alaska where gold nuggets are falling in showers She sets out on a tramp steamer and on skipper Bull the eventful trip to Nome finds that the hard-bitte- n Brackett (Victor McLaglen) has fallen hopelessly in love with her In romance to follow ilNome he finds competition and the laugh-fille- d a number of glamwears Mae of time the love lustrates the technique orous new creations silks lace and plumes unrivaled since her appearance as "Diamond Lou” The story and dialogue as in her previous hits were written by the star herself In her supporting cast are PhilTeanle Helen lip Reed her' latest "tall dark and handsome" Conway Jerome Eddy Harry Beresford and Harold Huber Mae has also written and sings some new song hits among them the languishing “I’man Occidental Woman” A Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly comedy “All( Continued on Following Page) Production Dates Fixed For Little Theater Play Vocal Pupils to Present Program PROVO— Students of Miss Margaret Summerhays instructor in vocal music at the Brigham Young university will be presented in an informal studio recital Wednesday at 8:15 p m in 270 College building Florence Todd will be the accompanist with violin obbligatos given by Ann Clayson Tjie following singers will be heard: Reva Vickers Ronald Pul-haIda Fescher Lota Paxman Ahlander Helen Sutton Joseph Dorothy Betty Ann Torgesen Dallin Nielson Ralph Brough Britsch Alice Carlson and Llttieth m Van Dam First of the plays to be presented by the Little Theater of Salt Lake which is to be John Wexley’s “The Last Mile" has been set for presentation on the nights of March 12 13 and 14 at the old Masonic hall First South and Second East streetsof The play is a gripping drama journey’s end of prison life andwill have the able direction of Robert Guggenheim Jr who has had a great deal of experience directing and acting also during his college career at Dartmouth and later in New York City Cast for the play will include Quarter Century in Pictures They call him a star — hut he insists that he’s a character actor And after twenty-fiv- e years on the screen rated one of the major stars of today Lionel Barrymore proves his assertion by the fact that he’s not afraid to play small roles If they are good he often does In one picture he may be the dominant figure — in another as "Treasure Island” for instance contribute some cameolike bit of characterization like his "Billy Bones” And when he does this it usually stands out as strongly as a stellar part He received hundreds of letters complaining that the "Billy Bones” part was not longer He was acclaimed for his role as the inebriate old doctor In “Public Hero” Now celebrating his twenty-fift- h year on the screen and to be seen in what he considers one of the most important roles in his entire career Barrymore still looks at his stardom with a disinterested and rather analytical’ eye “This wasn’t so in silent days” “Then all stories dealt he declares love — a sweet with adolescent young girl and a boy and any character players were merely incidental ornamentation so to speak "But when the screen found its voice erudite profundities or sound sparkling dialogue didn’t right coming from the mouths of babes as it were Thus we character players and older actors came in 1924 he was wanted for Rex Beach’s “The Barrier” and he remained Other roles followed He took a whirl at the stage on the coast in “The Jest” He bought a honje Then came talking pictures and overnight he was acclaimed in “The Lion and the Mouse” Talking pictures were clumsy then and new but Barrymore had faith in them He thought he saw a chance to improve them so went in for directHis first directorial effort ing "Madame X” with Ruth Chatter- - public-spirite- non-prof- it Record-Breakin- g “The Informer” mentioned as leading contender for awards as the most outstanding picture of last year is playing repeat engagements all over the country to record breaking business to note that Barrymore directed the feature talking and first singing picture “The Rogue Song” which brought Lawrence Tibbett to the screen The next turn in his career came strangely enough through the same man who directed him later in “Ah Wilderness” Clarence Brown was about to direct “A Free Soul” with Norma Shearer and decided that the father role was perfect for Barrymore He showed the actor the part and induced him to forego directing and turn thespian just for that role anyhow Barrymore intrigued did so— and was catapulted to immediate stardom That same director had long visioned Barrymore in “Ah Wilderness!” When it was produced on the stage Brown begged to direct it in pictures Hunt Stromberg saw the value in the play backed Brown up and thus its filming beall-col- or into the picture” When he played in his first picture "The New York Hat” with Mary Pickford a quarter century ago acting for the screen was considered a disgrace by stage folk Lionel’s family urged him not to His friends of the theater remonstrated at his bringing the name and tradition of a Barrymore to Miss Helen Budge pianist of the the "leaping tintypes” "But I knew there was something McCune School of Music and :Art faculty will be the soloist in the ahead in this new toy" he declares ttiey forthcoming symphony orchestra VI felt the same way when concert to be conducted by Frank said that ‘talking pictures are just a novelty and won’t last’ T&ere W Asper Monday March 2 ” Miss Budge will play the Concerto was someting big behind it in E Flat Major by Franz Liszt Mr Barrymore's career in the silent Asper will announce the complete days saw him playing heavies comprogram of this group of 100 sym edy roles anything that came to hand He ventured to Hollywood phonic players at a later date Chester Dowse Roy Drushall Jerry Deane Kearney Steffensen Arthur Christean LeRoy Sleater Richard Keddington E C Woodward Russell Brown J G McKenzie Max Banks Carl Kidder LuZell Chipman and J Elmer Banks The Little Theater of Salt Lake Is d being organized by citizens in recognition of the cultural and educational values of drainstimatic art It is a tution idealistic in its origin democratic in its administration and unselfish in person It seems to stimulate a wholesome Interest in the stage through the presentation of plays of intrinsic merit and to foster a love for the art of playing as a means of Practically every city at importance has its Little Theater perhaps the outstanding one being the Pasadena Playhouse Many professional players have developed in these community theaters Members of the group feel there is a crying need now for legitimate stage productions particularly since no stock company operates here at present The board of directors consists of Mr Guggenheim Jr who is president D O Moffat Louis Marcus Mrs C E Wright Church P Castle Mrs S P Jones Lila Eccles Brim-half- c John S Burnham and W P Dunn LIONEL BARRYMORE ton made history He moved the microphone for an effect for the first time and broke the ice for “moving camera shots" which the engineers had held impossible It is interesting also with all the recent discussion of color pictures came possible “The Voice of Bugle Ann” Barrymore’s new picture is something very close to his heart He plays a veteran hunter who kills a man to It is avenge his faithful hound one of his most dramatic characters since “The Copperhead” “To play such a role is a joy to any actor— to direct it a joy to any comments director” Barrymore "And it sure suits me to ’71" -- |