Elmer Rice, Jewish, spectacled, Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the very few successful playwrights who has a sense of social consciousness and who periodically forsakes the commercially profitable Broadway stage to do a play protesting against the system that has made him wealthy, left America last week to spend a vacation abroad. He sailed for England where his “Counsellor-at-Law”, which ran so long in this country, is being produced by Sir Harry Jackson. It has been playing at the Piccadilly and word reaches New York that London audiences, although amused at the spectacle, cannot quite understand this type of American-Jewish lawyer.
When Mr. Rice returns to these shores he will begin casting three of his own plays, “Judgment Day,” a melodrama of Europe, “Between Two Worlds,” in which all the action takes place on an ocean liner and “Not For Children,” a satiric comedy.
NEW HARMON AND ULLMAN PLAY IN REHEARSAL
Sidney Harmon and James R. Ullman, who produced “Men In White,” this season have a new play in rehearsal which at this writing is called “The Milky Way.” It is a comedy by Harry Clork and Lynn Root and is described by Emanuel Eisenberg, who is pressagenting the show as “a piercing lyric of life among the sadists.” It will open at the Cort Theatre on May 7. The cast includes Hugh O’Connell, Leo Donnelly, Brian Donlevy, Gladys George, Emily Lowry and William Foran.
WARNING
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer very virtuously request that a warning be sounded to the effect that their “Viva Villa,” the picture now at the Criterion, has nothing in common with a picture entitled “LaSombra De Pancho Villa” and they hope nobody goes to the latter in hopes of seeing the former. Don’t say we didn’t tell you.
OF NO MOMENT WHATSOEVER
The following were garnered from picture company press sheets and are set down, not without a great effort, sans comments.
Elizabeth Allan, an English physician’s daughter, married an English physician’s son.
Louise Henry took her first train ride when she came to Hollywood, although she had crossed the ocean eighteen times.
Jean Harlow, when she was seven years old, had three little pigs that pulled her around in a red wagon, twenty-three ducks, two lambs and a pony with a red harness for pets.
Maurice Chevalier learned all of his tricks as a music hall entertainer in his earlier days from an Englishman, J. W. Jackson.
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