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9 Introducing 'The Sky's the Limit7 A Beethoven Association Concert EAS PARKER AND KENT TAYLOR ARE WORRIED BETTIN4 U4U. The Theater Music of the Day Music Notes LttwwiiLkiVDAiLfc' LAuLt, luiilv, TJKSDAi, IjEEIILSu 16, MM lT l. H. HAGGIN By ARTHUR POLLOCK Heifetz in Quartet Performances at Beethoven Association Concert 01 in Downes Smith and Dale Appear in 'The Sky's the Limit' at the Fulton Theater, a Radio Satire No doubt an audience might be found for a play like "The Sky's the Limit" if the entertainment could be seen for 25 or 30 cents. But the producer of the new play at the Fulton Theater asks much more.

Unfortunately that part of the public that owns what he asks will never allow Itself to be parted from the sum. "The Sky's the Limit" is the type of play that compares unfavorably with a bad movie and is not The Brooklyn Civic Orchestra, iounded last year under the auspices of the Long Island University of Brooklyn, will give its fourth concert since its founding and the first this season on Thursday evening, Dec. 20, at Girls Commercial High School, Brooklyn. Admission is free to the public. Dr.

Paul Kosok, director, announced today that the program would include three works Schubert's Fourth or Tragic Symphony, Liszt's Hungarian Fantasy and Japanese Lullaby, by the first violinist of the orchestra, Jasha Kritchevsky. Florence Easton, soprano, and Dame Sybil Thorndike are guests of honor of the Dutch Treat Club today at the McAlpin. Miss Easton, Continues Series The concert of the Beethoven Assentation at the Town Hall lat night was a little more like the first Beethoven Association concerts. The great attraction of these concerts used to be the opportunity they gave of hearing a number of celebrated solo instrumentalists play together for their own pleasure, as they might In their own homes. A quartet of such celebrities usually did not produce first-rate quartet-playing like that of the Flonzaleys, characterized by perfect unanimity of musical purpose and execution, perfect balance and blending of tone.

What it did produce was, precisely, something different, and something interesting for itself the playing together of four artists with individual musical temperaments and mlnds. nearly so picturesque. Joe Smith and Charles Dale are the chief performers. They fight, like Potash and Perlmutter. Pierce Johns and Hendrik Booraem wrote the play proper and there is "additional dialogue" by Billy K.

Wells and Arthur Barton. The additional dialogue consists doubtless of the Last night there were not four.amo jj Signor" from Mascagni's mPpi noisier of the vaudeville gags that featured players. Among them the four authors have conceived hardly half as many really funny lines. That isn't enough. Once more the radio Is satirized.

Once more it is the business end of the radio. There are In lies at 1 tile expense of si onsors. And pokes at the expense of the Amer-Jican public and its love of being gulled. According to the plans of these radio folk there is to be a Ihuge public wedding in Madison square uaraen. mis, j.

am airaia, fis at the expense of "Of Thee I Sing." The authors are like Shake-ispeare. They pick up things here and there, with the object, of course, of improving upon them. The scenes bounce around in the office of one of radio's agents. He Lew Briskin, played by Joe Smith, and he was for 20 years a producer of burlesque shows. There's ft slap at the radio business! He is beginning and has no money.

But In 'Anything Goet' at the Alvin. 'Limehouse Blues' Coining To Brooklyn Paramount George Raft returns to the screen, after a somewhat prolonged absence, In "Limehouse Blues," opening at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater with a preview tomorrow night. Assisting Raft in this screen drama of London's nefarious Limehouse district are Anna May Wong, Jean Parker, Kent Taylor and Montague Love, Alexander Hall directed the film. Adapted to the screen from the novel of Arthur Phillips, "Limehouse Blues" presents Raft in the role of a half-caste Chinaman who uses his American beritage, to advantage in foiling the law. but is finally betrayed by his attachment to a white girl.

AMIISEMKN'I'S BKUIIKI.VN For reasons explained ill 'Liniehouse opening at thr. Brooklyn Paramount tomorrow night. fane has a customer on his string, II a rich, old friend of his in the yeast News of the Stage dish Folks Theater, 2d Ave. and 12th tomorrow evening. This will be given mid-weeks and the current gv)lENTURY CIRCUIT THEATRES Patio.

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nr. Stll Ave Ler.tti Veiini RICHMOND Hll.l, Keith's. tcl FILVOII SleenlPchate r' HI Stl WICK wav-Hoyvavd llKKENP01NT.8SSManll'n Ave 'THE WHITE ORPHKIM Fulton and BOftWPII THE WHITE FEATURE FILMS who was associated with the Metropolitan for a number of years as leading Wagnerian soprano, has re cently returned from England, where for the past three years she had been appearing in concert and singing at Covent Garden. A program of Russian dances and folksongs will illustrate a lecture by Dr. Walter N.

Polakov, whose subject will be "High Lights on Life in the U. 8. at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Academy of Music, this evening. The Russian Balalaika Quintet, with a group of assisting artists, will offer folksongs and dances of Russia. A series of four Rafael Diaz Tuesday be hi ttf Grant! Hi six I from Jc 1 Jan.

i mt i. 's. ai, vi li'ul task wrncb it, temp.i. Mr. gave a sum lai series during his visit In 1927.

AMUSEMENTS BROOKLYN "8T. LOUIS "Puriult et Hasainees'' 110,1 Roles, -THE WHITE PARADE" 'TH COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO" OP LOVE'': "KANSAS CITT PRINCE8S" nr. LUUI8 "Puriult ef Haiainesi" "Sr. LOUIS "Puriult af Hapslneii'1 mvi a "qoloie." i. hhi LL FIX "WKE UP AN 0 DREAM" "81.

LOUIS KIO "Punuit if Heepineil'1 "SHE LOVES ME "Hive a Heart" Cat" C. Celbsrt. "Imltatian ef Life" Htm. 'THE WHITE PARADE" PARADE" a "CHEATINa CHEATERS" llhli Vol It In "THE WHITE PARADE" i lebn Melee In "THE WHITE PARADE" -Leretla Yeuns le "The Whits Pir.fli" "Geiitlemen Are "Ctieetinf Caeetere" A lelm Rules In "THE WHITE PARADE PABaOE" "CHEATING CHEATERS" POE" "NIOHT larm" SHOWING TODAY ISLAND drop from the tongues of the two 'THE SKY'S THE LIMIT' A farce by Pierce Johns and Hendrik Booiaem. Presented at the Fulton Theater by Ray Qolden.

Staged by Sidney Salkow. Settir.gs by Arthur Segal. THE CAST. Connie Downey Vlckers John Dale Praser Murray Alper Professor Mungoa Maurice Cass Murgatroyd Lew Daniels Russell Brent Edward Woods Duchess Catherine Collins Perry Nichols John Kane Peggy Mary Mason Olga Altman Lew Briskin Joe Smith Abe J. Ptnkel Charles Dale DumkopI Martin Gabel broadcast by broadcasting, for another yeast company, the love letters the baritone has written' her.

And so, to defeat her purpose, a nationwide voting contest is started, the voters to decide whether the sap baritone shall marry the girl he broadcasts with or the Russian. Votes are overwhelmingly against the Russian, the wedding is prepared for the Garden, when the girl refuses to marry the baritone and the baritone says be wants the Russian. That tells you only two acts of the piece. You get the idea. Of course, all this could be excruciatingly funny.

It is now Far from it. The writing is elementary, the acting is only noisy. Messrs Smith and Dale made evenings merry for 20 years and more in the vaudeville theaters of the world with their Avon Comedy Four. "The Sky's the Limit" gives them no chance to prove-that they can be at home in anything but vaudeville. They spare no effort.

They are ready and will- ling. The result is unfortunate. WENDY AT KIN In 'Pott at the. Manque, tive widow. There are good, portrayals in supporting roles by Maxine Doyle, Glen Boles, Berton Churchill, Alan Hale and Minor Watson.

Charles Laughton Cas! For Movie 'Miserables' Darryl F. Zanuck has signed Charles Laughton to co-star with Fredric March In "Les Miserables." The film is scheduled to go before the cameras in about a month. Laughton will portray the role of Javert, the detective. March, as previously announced, will play the part of Jean Valjean. W.

P. Lips comb, co-author of "Cllve in India," which has just been completed, is preparing the screen play of "Les Miserames." Declares Flowers Bloom Well in Shade Flowers bloom well in the shade, many of them lasting longer and producing better blossoms than can be raised in sunshine, Mrs. Living ston Farrand of Ithaca, N. a member of the Garden Club of America, declared yesterday at the Academy of Music. Naming flowers that thrive in shady places in the order ot their blooming, Mrsr.

Ferrand listed maiden hair ferns, tulips, columbine, Canterbury bells, peonies. snake root, many varieties of lilies, Japanese anenone, baltonia and diantha. Modern Trend against a darkening sky, by Robert Kinsley. Unusual and delicately lovely Is "The Blue Mushroom," by Isabel L. Whitney, one of many studies of flora.

Ships are in evidence, "South nd Back Yards," Richard Geralgery; "Fishing Boats," Goldle M. Mackrell; "Steamboat Wharf," Frederick K. Detwlller, and others. There are 60 paintings. The exhibition will continue through Jan.

2. Herbert B. Tschudy, whose "Get Out of the Corn" has delicate humor, Is president of the club. yk 4l celebrities but only one Jascha Heifeto, who collaborated In Beethoven's Quartet in flat, opus 127, and In Debussy's Quartet with three players who have distinguished records as members of chamber music groups Edwin Bachman, violinist; Nicolas Moldavan, viollst, and Josef Schuster 'cellist. Between the quartets Mr.

Heifetz played on the viola the Chaconne from Bach'a Sonata In minor for violin, unaccompanied. It had been interesting to speculate what the performances would be like; and the one certainty, I had thought, was Mr. Heifeta' beautiful tone, which would help any quartet playing, and would have helped last night's if It had been present. But in the performance of the Beethoven Quartet last night Mr. Heifetz' tone elected to be wiry.

The group kept together precisely, but other quartet virtues were hardly to be expected. And as for interpretative projection of the music, it had been a question whether the three chamber-music players would win Mr. Heifetz over to their Ideas or Mr. Heifeta would carry the three chamber-music players along with him; and it sounded as though Mr. Heifetz had carried the three chamber music players along with him.

In the Bach Chaconne his tone was clear and warm once more, and the music sounded magnificent on the instrument. But he played Bach even less satisfactorily than Beethoven. Olio Downes Olin Downes again the function of impresario and popii-larizer to his duties as a critic last nlsht at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the seventh of the series of "Enjoyment of Music" lectures. The subject of the evening was the "Formal Elements of Opera," a large subject necessarily sketchily treated. The La Forge Operatic Ensemble assisted, along with a long list of soloists including Emma Otero, Mabel Miller Downs, Eliza beth Andres, Julia Adams, Clem-ence Glfford, Santo di Primo, Harrington van Hoesen, Robert Simmons, Ellsworth Bell and John The musical illustrations consisted of "Care compagne," from Bellini's "Sonnambula," the duet "Quanrio le soglie paterne varcai," from Donizetti's "La Favorita," the trio from the last act of Gounod's "Faust," the Habanera from Bizet's "Carmen," the quintet "Selig, wie die Sonne," from Wagner's "Mels- tersinger," the sextette from Donizetti's "Lucia," the "Letter Duet" from Massenet's' "Manon," the quartet from Verdi's "Rigoletto," and the solo with chorus "Innegi- AMUSEMENTS MANHATTAN WILLIAM ETHEL VICTOR GAXTON MERMAN MOORE wie new musical ANYTHING GOES In tne new Musical CamedT Hit "A DE LUXC RIOT." With BETTINA HALL Amtrican ALVIN, W.

92a 81. Matt. Wd. and 8it 2:30 LEW BKOWN'S CALLING ALL STARS A NEW MUSICAL REVl'E LOU PHIL EVSMiTT H0LTZ BAKER MARSHALL Jack Ultsi Oertrvit Patricia WHITINS MAY'AI NIESCN BOWMAN Sira Miltfrea straw DatMert and ISO Others 75 Most Beautiful Girll In tha World 15 HOLLYWOOD THEATRE, 51 gt. B'wav Ivt.l:30.

Mats. Wd.sdil 3:30. Clrli7-50I Entlrs Bill. II to $1.50 SI 4 12. SO.

Oiod Orjh. Seats S3 plus tut. 8stts new Xmli and N. Yrs. gve.

tallulahbankhead" Dark victory with EARLE LARIMORE, ANN ANDREWS LITTLE THS 44 W. el I'wy. LAt. 41930 Evolnsi 1:40. Mitlnni Thurs.

A at 2:40 In SINCLAIR LEWIS' DODSWORTH Dramatized by SIDNEY HOWARD SHUBERT, W. 44th St. 400 seat! at K1.10 Evs. 8:40 Share. Mats.

Wed. and 85i le J2.75 BERT LYTELL ENGAGEMENT EXTENDED First legion BY POPULAR DEMAND KIL1MORE, W. ol B'J. CM. 4-S1K1 Erji.

:40. Mala. Wed. and! GOLD EAGLE GUY SEATS SELLING WEEKS IN ADVANCE MOROSCO 45th W. of i0.

Matinee) Wednesday at LIFE BEGINS AT 8:40 The Mgileal Success with BERT RAY LUELLA LAHR BOLGER GEAR PRANCES WILLIAMS A JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON Prodlctien FVES C0OD ORCHESTRA BEATS, 13.30 Bile, tl.lt. tl.SS, t2.20. t2.H. S3.M WINTER GARDEN. S'way and 90th St.

Eva.MO Mats. Than, and Sat. Estra Mat. Frl Dss. 21 MERRILY WiTROLL ALONG Kw Kaufman-Hart Plan with Kenneth MaeKenna Mary Philips Walter Abel Cecilia Loltui Jessie RoYee Landla "THE HIT OF THE TEA Ollhfrt tiabrtal.

Amtricnn MUSIC BOX THEATRE, 4R W. of B'y Ets. Mats. Thurs. and Sat at 2:30 Lsureme 80HWAB 4 Phlllla DUNNING trsient PAGE MISS GLORY A Hllsrleus MANSFIELD rHEATRK.41 W.of B'way Et.

90s te S3. Mall. Wed. and 90s ts 12 PERSONAL APPEARANCE "Both htl tomtdy intf tjilUlein firci." Hirm Mothttrwell, Th Stage HENRY MILLER'S Thcatra, West 43d Evn. 11:40.

Mali. Thun. mnd HOLIDAY MATS, pOST ROAD Start Mantle, Hewn with LUCILE WATSON "RM.ONOS ON LIST Or WORTHWHILE SHOWS." Walter Wlnc-hell. Jfirror MASQUE 49 W. ef Evs.

1:90 Mats. WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY, :40 1 "Cavallerla Rusticana. It was hardly a representativs list since such great masters of the opera as Gluck, Mozart, Rossini, Strauss and Moussorgsky were totally absent, as well as such important innovators in operatic structure as Weber, Puccini and Meyerbeer, to mention only a few. The performances were In general adequate to the needs of the occasion, Mmes. Otero and Downs and Mr.

van Hoesen giving particularly good performances. The quintet from "Melsterslnger" suffered con siderably, however, from inaccurate intonation and bad ensemble. Mr. Downes interspersed the whole with his usual comment. W.

S. Brooklyn Society Opens Art Show That modern artists do not always champion modern an in the extreme sense of that term; is evident in the display of 37 paintings In oil and water color at the Fif teen Gallery, 37 W. 57tli Manhattan, by the Brooklyn Society uf Modern Artists. Most of the pictures are In uil. Beulah Stevenson uses the Unit tones and mass formations of today's school In "Art and Philately," rare stamps delicately done, is an unusual subject by Samuel Rothbort.

Humor lurks in "Beauty Culture," by Minna Citron. Very lovely in design is "Little Shepherd," by Herbert B. Tschudy. Agnes Richmond exhibits the only portrait study. "At the Window," with a Brooklyn garden as background.

An inspiring scene is "Indian Summer" in high key by Alexander Couard, among the water colors. Exquisite in this medium is "Day Lilies," by Isabel L. Whitney. Vividly done is "Sundoyn," by Herman Trunk. "Foggy Weather," by Lars Hoftrup, has distinctive atmosphere.

The exhibit iU continue through Dec. 29. 'Forsaking All Others' To Be Shown at Capitol "David Copperfield," scheduled for its world-premier at the Capitol Theater on Christmas Day, will not be ready for release at that time. Therefore, "Forsaking AU Others," starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and Robert Montgomery, will be the special screen attraction opening at the Capitol a week from today. W.

S. Van Dyke directed "Forsaking All Others." The supporting cast includes Charles Butterworth, Billie Burke, Frances Drake and Rosalind Russell. AMUSEMENTS MANHATTAN SAY WHEN The Musical Coined? Laush Hit! with HARRY RICHMAN BOB HOPE LINDA WATKINS TAYLOR CORA DKVNIE HOLMES W1THERSPOON MOORE and danelns; ehorus nf lovely beauties MORE LAUGHS THAN YOUR TICKET CALLt FOR." Garland, Worli-Telcvram IMPERIAL 45th W. at B'way Evenings at :30, l.0fl tn S3. SO) Plus Matinees Thurj.

and SMALL MIRACLE A Thrllllni, Rreath-Takinr. Hit; With JOSEPH SPUR1N-CALLEIA 4th ST. THEATRE East of Broadway Ens. 8:40. Mats.

Wed. tt Ave ts ti THE CHILDREN'S HOUR "An engrossing and unfllnchlni treatment sf an adult theme." Brown. Post MAXINE Eve. 90s ll.tl Matinees Wed. and ftoe to 4 Matinees Xmas Week: Dee.

15; and Dee. IS SYBIL THORNDIKE ev, HE DISTAFF SIDE with EstelSa Wlnwood, Viola Keats "A meitiril.ee at tur time." tlarlanil, BOOTH Theatre, 49 SI. Evs. 1:40, 9Si te S2.J5 Mats. Wed.

and 2:40, 65e ta fi.SO MAX GORDON Tirevrn's THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE by Frank B. Elser and Mare Connelly With JUNE HERB HENRY WALKER WILLIAMS FONDA Directed by MARC CONNELLY 4ATH ST. W. of B'way. Ev(S.

ft: 10 Evs. SSe le 13.30. Malt. Weil. and S5t ts S2.10 ENTIRE BALCONY Jo ts .20 MATINEE TOM'W at 2:30 35e ta 2.JO.

500 Oreh. Seats at Sl.dS ir tr (Four Stars)" liaitv MAX GORDON arstents a New Musleil Play Production Conceived and Directed by RASSARD SHORT THE GREAT WALTZ Boek by Mess Hart. Music by lohsnn Strains. Osness by Albsrtlna Rssch Evs. at 1:30.

59e le S3.30. Mats. 1:30, 99t ts 12 20. 500 Orih. Bests Every Nllht, 92.20 THE CENTER I EAT RE, 49th 8t.

and (th Ave, TOBACCO ROAD 2Ie with JAMES BELL bv JACK RIRKLAND Based an Erskina Caldwell's Novel Mats. Wednesday and Saturday. H0e to $2 FORREST 48th W. of B'way THE THEATRE OCII.D aresents MAXWELL ANDERSON'S Slav VALLEY FORGE with PHILIP MERIVALE GUILD THEATRE. 124 81..

W. St B'y. En. :30 MATINEES Thursday and Saturday. Eitra Mat.

Christmas and New Year's Day SEAN O'CASEf'S Within the gates "Glorious Drama." Atkinson, Ttmt With Lillian Glsh, Rramwel! Fletcher. Mef'alt Johnston, Mary Morris. Cast of 70 NATIONAL 41 W. el B'y. El.

9:10 Mat. Wed. and 60c to S3, Plus tay 3 Mats. Xmt Week: No Advance) I Prices Naw HWt Eva, i business. He wants him to put his 1.

yeast on the air and the agent of-'Uers him a young baritone, a sap. when the customer, Charles Smith, comes in to do business the (treat slneer has disanreared. run Kofi to find a Russian radio per- 1 former who loves him and is mad at him. He comes back in the nick of time, however, but without the script prepared for the audition before the big customer. Luckily, girl who loves one of Joe Smith's office boys, a script writer, offers the script he has written for her and himself and It goes very big with the customer.

But the girl plays It with the baritone, not with her beloved, and hei beloved Is very, very mad. Everything 1s going along nicely when the Russian' tries, to ruin the The Screen MARTIN DICKSTE1N; Babbitt' Proves Genial Comedy at Palace BABBITT." a first National Picture based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis: directed by William Keighley and pre sented at the Palace Theater. THE OABT Mrra Babbitt MacMahon Tanis Judlaue Claire Dodd Verona Babbitt; Maxlne Doyle Ted Babbitt. Qlen Boles Paul Reisling Watson Charlie McKelvey Alan Hale Judge Thompson Berton Churchill Commissioner urnee Russell Hicks Eunice Llttleneld Nan Gray Zeke Arthur Aylesworth Martin Ounch. Harry Tyler Miss McOoun Mary Treen ziua Relating aombell In the screen version of "Babbitt," which is currently having Its premiere at the Palacs one tails to detect the biting sarcasm and the acidulous scorn with which Sinclair Lewis invested his novel a dozen years ago.

In the book, you may remember, George F. Babbitt was portrayed as the prototype of he vain, pompous, boastful busi ness man who is usually to be en- ountereu (at least he was before he depression) in certain commu nities in the Middle West. Mr. Lewis' novel was, moreover, a rather icious indictment of the typical American small town which took pleasure in holding up to idlcule its Joiners, boosters and similar go-getting clans. The movie edition approaches its ubject more calmly.

It is less levastating in its attack and one an discover in its chapters few of he cruel satirical thrusts which baracterized the novel. What you will find at the Palace a genial, good-natured comedy vhlch devotes itself mainly to the musing tribulations of its blunder- ng central character. It describes he painful consequences of Mr. Babbitt's innocent alliance with a nlackmaillng widow and it jogs pleasantly along to its happy end- ng when Ma Baomtt shrewdly ex- ricates mm irom a mess rising out a real estate deal which had hreatened to develop into a local randal. All this may not, of course, be ntirely faithful to the letter and of Sinclair Lewis' book, and et we think mat tne movie BaD- itt" sc-ves its purpose as a divert- riR comedy of small-town mooes Btirl manners.

Guv Klbbee finds himself ideally o.sl here in the title role, and his xirtrayal of the go-getting realtor zenith reveals him at nis best, line MaqMahon leaves little to be icsired as nis loyal and emcient vlfe, while Claire JDodd turns in a irst-rate performance as the seduc "Dodsworth" is now running in the home stretch of its engagement and will hit the finish tap on Jan. 12. There will be a road tour with Walter Huston, Fay Balnter and Nan Sunderland continuing in the leads. Opening last Feb. 2i.

it Is now in its 35th week, there having been a seven-week closing during the Summer to enable Mr. Huston to appear in "Othello" at Central City, Col. Arthur' Sinclair, formerly one of the more stalwart stalwarts of the Irish Abbey Players and more recently of "Mr. Gilhooley" and "Old Man Murphy, has been signed by Billy Rose for a leading role in 'Jumbo." This is the much her alded musical comedy of circus life by Ben Hecht and Charles Mac-Arthur to be presented under canvas. It will open next Spring.

Lester Allen and Lillian Bond have been signed by Pearson and Baruch for the leading roles in "Lit tle Shot," a comedy by Percival Wilde. Max Reinhardt will bring his production of Shakespeare's comedy, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," to Times Square some' time in Feb ruary. The theater in which it will be presented has not yet been chosen. 1 'Thumbs Up," the Eddie Dowling revue, will switch on first footlights Dec. 27 at the St.

James' Theater. Clark and McCullough, Hal LeRoy, J. Harold Murray, Eddie Garr, Ray Dooley, the Pickens Sisters, Sheila Barrett, Paul Draper, Margaret Adams, Eunice Healey and Mr. Dowling are the principals. The sketches and lyrics were written by Ballard Macdonald, H.

I. Phillips, Harold Atteridge and Earl Crocker and music was composed by James Hanley, Henry Sullivan and Vernon Duke. The entire production is under the eye of John Murray An derson. A. G.

Andrews will have one of the leading roles in "Laburnum Grove," the J. B. Priestley play that Gilbert Miller is presenting here in association with Lee Shubert. Melville Cooper and Margery Pickard, members of the original London company, arrived here yesterday on board the Georgic. The seat sale for Ruth Draper's limited engagement at the Ethel Barrymore Theater begins today.

Miss Draper will open her repertory with a holiday matlne on Dec. 26. There will be eight performances the first week, with three matinee performances on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, and evening performances every night including Sunday. Tickets are priced from 50 cents to $2.50, plus tax. What with 11 new plays and three or four reopenlngs, next week will be the busiest one so far this season.

The openings are "Rain From Heaven," "The O'Flynn," Ruth Draper, "Thumbs Walter Hampden, "Fools Rush Accent on Youth," "Birthday," "Music Hath Charms," "Piper Pair" and "Baby Pompadour." Dreifuss and Gernhardt announce that Benjamin Graham's farcical comedy, "Baby Pompadour," will tenant the Vanderbilt, opening next Thursday. Herbert Rawllnson, Gladys Shelley, Nana Bryant and Gladys Feldman are among the featured players. The New York Art Troupe will present Artzybasheff's "Jealousy," staged by Joseph BulofT, at the Yid AMUSEMENTS BROOKLYN 0 1I GREAT STARS IN I Hid HUS Mrtn rnuiN "oam- EVELYN LAYE Thum. "rreildrnt lahbltl" ESS' A WICKED WOMAN CUUDETTE COLBERT hi Fanitl Niirtt' "IMITATION OF LIFE" can" knot aoss a co. at k-Rt In -Laws" on weekends.

The casting board, Valerie Cos- sart, Lillian Brennard Tonge, Flor ence Britton, Armand Cortez, Fred Leslie, Alberta Perkins and Grayce Hampton, have been added to the cast of "Point Valalne" Thomas Newton is now in "Accent on Youth" Additions to "The Old Maid" are Florence Williams. Margaret Anderson, Frederick Voigt, Warren Trent, Mary Ricard and Hope Landen. Beginning Christmas night at the Shubert Theater in Newark with "My Maryland," a series of operettas will be presented by Frank L. Smith and the Shuberts. George Rosener, Desiiee Tabor, Bartlett Simmons, Nancy Welford, Dorothy Chapman, Harold Crane, Louis CasavaiH, Iconise Beaudet and Henry Rabke head the company.

Other pieces on the schedule are "Gypsy Love," "Blossom Time," The Last "Countess Maril-na." "The Circus Princess" and "The Honeyinoouers." An of Negro players, the cle Beaumont Players, will sponsor "Beale Street," a play about Harlem night life, by Dennis Don-nghue, who wrote "Legal Murder." The first performance will be given on Dec. 30 at Mecca Temple in aid of the Scottsboro defense fund. Rex Ingram, Lionel Monagas, Edna Barr and Edna Thrower head the cast. The play, which has been revised and staged by Larry Bolton, will tour before a Broadway opening. The addition of Margaret Dale to the cast of "The Old Maid," which opens at the Empire Theater on Jan.

1, Is a "home coming." For Miss Dale played in this theater many years as leading lady for John Drew. Her last appearance there was in George Ade's "Father and the Boys." Moss Hart will not write that new musical comedy for Sam H. Harris in Morocco as originally planned. Instead he will sail with Cole Porter, who is to do the music and lyrics, on the Franconia for a four-month world tour. One eye on the ocean's sights, one eye on writing paper, they'll write the piece.

Briefs "Living Dangerously," with- Conway Tearle and Kay Johnson, will open at the Morosco on Jan. 9 Fred Chiaventena, who has been a head waiter at the Rltz Carlton, Ambassador and Montclalr Hotels, will be head waiter of the French Casino when the Revue Folies Bergere opens there The Workers' Laboratory Theater will give two benefit performances of one-acters next Sunday at the 6th Ave. Playhouse. Jack Oakie Gets Role In 'Call of the Wild' Jack Oakie has been assigned a feature role in "Call of the Wild," the 20th Century production in which Clark Gable Is being starred. With Loretta Young in the leading feminine part, and Edward Arnold prominently assigned, the cast Is quickly nearing completion.

Gene Fowler and Leonard Pras-kins adapted the Jack London story for the screen, and William Well-man will direct. AMUSEMENTS MANHATTAN IRADIO CITY MUSIC HAIL 1 xmi st. a imw pici i hh MnoK MUSIC IN THE AIR GLORIA SWANSON JOHN MUX at lllSS, 1:84, 5:11, 1:57, a etmtm lanMili la a TUBMOfiv McHtmu rtiiiawlrta itl Hiiwj. COl. 3-633S ANY OAT r-c "WEDNESDAYS CHILD" Umn AimM Frantic Ihamn Pint Gate Htm trim 5fr J0ll.

IWV I afiltaNahu A3 35 ANY MAT HKl.il UVEKl Bid WHKKl nG Alt IIO ta Htrbart Marshall, Of la rerua UCORUK JE TAINTED VKIL IHtrbart Marshall, Grorra Brfnt la rerua UCORUK JESSEL Othwi A I Kroartway nil IKlth SI R4t Rlutia Klectra. 7th SI and 'third Lat of Choice and Dick lurpin, 'Oulla Loew'a Alame. 89lh snd Del Rio in Madame DuBirry, Victor JorI I.e.'. Nancy Carroll, Donald Coolt Loew Bay Rldte. lid St de 3d count af Monte Crlsto.

Robt. Donat. EHssa Landlt plus Ladies Should Listen, Csry Grsnt, Franee) Dreka Stunley. Fifth Ave. and 75th Lost Lady and We're Rich Ataln Sunset, 47th St.

and Fifth Ave (ioinr Hollywood and Midnlrht Mary Vanity, 56th St. and Fifth Ave Strai(ht Is th Way and Sailor'a Luck BEDFORD Al0, Fulton St and Throop Barretts of Wimpole St. and Th Lemon Dron Kid Loews Bedford, Bedford and Bereen. Dolores Del Rl in Madame DuBarry. Victor Joryj plus Jealousy, Nancy Carroll, Donald Cook Loew'sBrevoort, Brevoort-Bedford Constance Bennett.

Herbert Marshall. Outcast Ladyt plus Jack Holt, I'll Fix It; Bill Robinson Comedy Loew'a Karnes, P'kway-Nostrand. Dolores Del Rio In Madame DuBarry, Victor Jory plus Jealousy, Nancy Carroll, Donald Cook National 720 Washington The Fountain and Th Human Sid Retent.Fulton8t.andBedfordAve.,.Red Dust and Green Eyes Savoy.BedloidAve.tndLincolnPl... White Parade, with John Boles and Loretta Toun BOROUGH HALL AND DOWNTOWN Cumberiand.CumberlandandFulton.She Was a Ladv and Take the Stand Dufflrld. Duffleld and Fulton Sts Student Tour and Our Daily Bread Loew'a Melba, Llyingston-Hanovor.

Jealousy, Nancy Carroll. Donald Cook: 1 also Lady by Choice, Carole Lombard, May RobNOe- Momart, 590 Fulton St Monte Carl Nlrbts and Stolen Sweets St. Geerre Plavhouie, 100 Pineapple. Case of the Mewllnr. Dor and Telltale Heart Termlnal.Pourth Ave.and Dean of the Nineties and Warn Wheels Tivoli, Fulton St.

and Myrtle At of Innocence; Bachelor Bait; Vaudeville BOROUGH PARK Elton. 43d St. and New Utrecht Barretts of wimpole Street; Case of the flowlinj Dei Garden, New Utrecht-46th St Dames and Tess of th Storm Country Loew'a Bor Park, 51 Utrecht, of Mint Crlsto, Robert Donat, Ellsse Landlt plus Jack Benny, Transatlantle Merrr-Go-Round Loew a 46th 46th-New Utrecht. Dolorai Del Rl In Madam DuBarry, Victor Jorj Jealousy, Nancy Carroll. Donald Cook Windsor, 15th Ave.

and 40th St Broken Livei and Public Enemy BENSON HURST Loew'a Dolorei Del i In Madome SuBarrv. Victor Joryr Pin Jealousy, Nanoy Carroll, Donald Cook Stillwell, 86th St. ind 24th Ave Belle of the Nlnetiea and Million Dollar Ransom BRIGHTON BEACH Oceana. Brighton Beach St. St.

Louis Kid and Ladv Choice Sheepshead.Sheepsh'dBay-Voorhles.British Atent and One Eieittna; Adventure Sheldon, 1648 Sheepshead Bay Belle of th Nineties: als Wake Up and Dream Tuxedo, Ocean Pity. nr. Brighton British Agent and I'll Fix It BUSHWICK Classic. Tompkins Ay. at Pulaski Blind Date and Lady Is Wiilinr Colonial.

Broadway and Chauncey St Count of Monte Crlsto and I'll Fix It Loew'a Gates. Qatea and Tw Big Features! Dolores Del Rl In Madame DuBarry; Jealousy, Naney Carroll, Donald Cook CONEY ISLAND Loew's Coney Island, Surl-Stlllwell. Dolores Del Rl in Madame DuBarry. Victor Joryt plus Jealousy, Naney Carroll, Donald Cook CITT LINE City Line, Liberty Lincoln A res Death on tha Diamond and Marrying Widows CROWN HEIGHTS Carroll, Utlca Ave. and Carroll of the Nineties and Gridiron Flash Congress.

St. John's Affairs of Cellini and Our Dally Bread Rlvera.St.John's PI. at Kingston Av.Mosl Precious Thing in Life; Wake Up and Oream IAST rLATBUSH Rugby, Utlca nr. Church Cleopatra and Pursued EAST NEW YORK Loew's Pitkin, Pitkin and Mrs. Wlgga of the Cabbage Patch, Paulina Lord, W.

C. Fields; Joe K. Brown. Six-Day Bike Rider FLATBUSH FUtbuib, Church and Flatbueh Dames and Blind Date Granada, Church andNostrand Aves. A Let Lady and Hay a Heart Leader, Coney Isl.

Lady by Choice and Our Dally Bread Loew's Century, Niwtrand-Parkslde. Constance Bennett, Herbert Marshall, Outcast Ladye plua On Exciting Adventure, Neil Hamilton Water Color Exhibition Shows Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Paulina Lord, W. C. Fields; Joe E.

Brown, Six-Day Bike Rider Navarre, Ave. O-Concy Island Topue and Beggars In Ermine Parkside.Flatbush and Parkslde Avs. Cleopatra and Most Precious Thing In Life GFRRITSSEN BEACH Graham, 311 Whitney Ave Gilt of Gab and Merry WIvm at Ren AVENUE AveaueU Ave. U-E. 16th Now and Forever: als Happiness Ahead Dewey, Coney Isl.

Av. nr. Ave, Cleopatra and Midnight Alibi Quentln, Quentin Rd. and E. 35th St, Cleopatra and Death on the Diamond Travntore, Ave.

and E. 46th Gift of Gab and Wagon Wheela PARK SLOPE Carlton, Flatbush and 7th Aves Student Tour and Affairs of Cellini Sanders, Prospect Pic. West-14th St. and Have a Heart RIDGEWOOD Glenwood, Myrtle Ave. and Decatur.

Gratitude and Pursuit of Happiness Oasis, Fresh Pond Hd. and Grove Barretts of Wimpole Cas th Howling Dg Parthenon, Myrtle and Wyckoff Count of Mont Crlsto; als Wake Up and Dream Ridgewood, Myrtle and Cypress Count at Monte Crlsto: also Wake Up and Dream Rlvoll, Myrtle and Wilson Aves Flesh and Tanight la Oura SOUTH BROOKLYN Sander'a Glebe, 226 15th 8t She Lovea Me Nat and Charlie t'hao in London WINDSOR TERRACE Venus, Prospect Av. -Vanderbilt Up tha River and House of Hauler WILLIAMSBURG Alba, Flushing Ave, and Broadway. Pursuit Happiness and St. La nil Km Fally, Oraham Ave.

near British Agent, Kay Francis; Vaudeville Loew's Broadway, Broadway-Myrtle. Dolorea Del Rl In Madame DuBarry, Viator Jorei plua Jealousy, Nancy Carroll, Donald Conk Williamsburg. Broadway and Marcy. Caravan and Scarlet Emnrees Little Ultra A-tici vjhn usft water rnlnr do not go in extensively for ultra- nodcrn design, mis is evident in he interesting annual exnimtion uy Water Color Club and exhibitors, which opened yes- erdav at the urant estucuos, nu (lemsen St. There are exceptions, but they are are.

Perhaps ine mosi notaDie is Farm Lands," by Dorothy Harri-n in which dull browns and predominate. The largest exmmt is ity towers and Manhattan Bridge LONG JAMAICA Lew's Valencia, Jam. Merrick Rd Th Merry Widow, Maurice Cheeailer, Jeenetl Mae-Donald: plus Vaudeville laa Rev Huttva; Re Weber Merrick, New Kotk-Jamaica Avet. Peck'a Bad Boy and 6S Mtghta In Hollywewd LONG BEACH Laurel.PaikSl.andLsuieltonBlvd., Little Friend end Ladies should List).