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Elliott Nugent Is Another Versatile Man of Theater Latest Actor Chosen by Miss Hepburn As Her Leading Man Can Write And Direct Very Well, Too By JAY CARMODY. Noel Coward is so sensational about it that he rather obscures the fact that he is not the only fellow in the theater versatile enough to write, act and direct plays that are very clever in what they say if not alarmingly deep in what they mean. There are, indeed, men strewn from Hollywood to New York, or vice versa, who will tell you with varying de grees of civility to have a look at Elliott Nugent. A look at Nugent is illuminating. It sort of brings you up sharply aware tnat tne man is amazingly versatile, reminds you that he is so normally Ohio Statish and modest that you haven t realized his cleverness. Right now Nu gent i s under taking a task that calls for acting ability and agility of the highest type. That is to say he is playing op posite Katharine Hepburn in “Without Love,” the Theater Guild's newest tfiterprise which Jir Ciraodr. was authored by Philip Barry. Miss Hepburn Is recognized as an actress AMUSEMENTS. LAST 4 TIMES! TONIGHT AT 8:30 Next Matinee Saturday at ?:3# “The Season's Loudest Laugh!" —nelson B. bell, Post NEXT WK. BEG. MON-Siats Nowl The Theatre Guild Preaenta Philip Barry « New ComtJy Without Love With WTHLRINE HEPBURN ELLIOTT NUGENT Itm., Orch.» S:30j Wed.-SaL Mats., f.15 tr ' of extreme discernment in choosing leading men. her greatest coup being the selection of Spencer Tracy in ‘‘Woman of the Year.” That was part of the original deal she made with M-G-M and is generally regarded as its canniest part. Nugent is another smart arrange ment on her part. * * * * It was a decade in Hollywood that made theater audiences less aware of Nugent than in the 20s when he and his father—J. C„ and a rather spectacular fellow over many years—wrote nine plays. "Kempy" was perhaps the best known and most enduring. At least so far as the latter quality is concerned, there are dozens of high school players and other amateur groups who see that the play has no rest. Nine plays is a lot of writing in a decade, even by a father and son team, and the Nugents also acted in a great many of them. They were making lots of money, as who wasn’t except about 85,000,000 Americans, when 1929 came along and smacked them, too. The theater did not flourish for a while after that, and Elliott, who had heard of money in Hollywood, decided to investigate the truth or falsity of it. He found it was true, all right, and for five years there was a great deal of acting to be done. There was enough, to be literal about it, to give him work in two dozen pictures. Nugent had not directed up to then, but one day somebody who knew about his writing and acting thought he might be as good in the third department of the art. It had the greenness of a new pasture, and Nugent leaped at the chance. His feel for the dramatic made him an immediate success at the new business, and he was flat tered that studios did not hesitate to give him big budget pictures to direct. He might have been there yet if it had not been for the fact that AMUSEMENTS. msr on 191 HAL MUSICAL SXTnA¥A9AMA OH WHS f LSI A New Entertainment Thrill! CAST OF 85 * 27 NOVKL ACTS 36 GLAMOROUS ROLLKRETTIS j . SufU ty CAE FOSTH V • FANCHON mU MARCO Pniuetom 6 Nights—2 Mats., March 17-22 J- M Friers: Nights—85c. S' 'O. $1.35, $1.65. K% W & $2.20 . . . Ine. Tax. ^ •» \ Mats.—63c, O.-.C. vi.10. $1.35, $1.65 .... Ine. Tax. ' Uline Ice Arena—Third & “M” St$. N.E., FR. 5800 1 GROWING VP—To be 14 on her next birthday is Shirley Temple, who manages to avoid anything like the awkward age if this Hurrell photo is accurate, which it is. he and James Thurber never could forget they had been pals at Ohio State—to the discomfiture of some of the more dignified and energetic students around the campus. They always had kept it in mind to write a play about their bright college years, and a couple of years ago they got busy on a prankish comedy, "The Male Animal.” Nu gent was not content merely to be co-author and director of the play. It occurred to him when it was finished that acting always had been his first love and that the lead ing role in the plav was a fine one for a fellow who liked acting. Accordingly he found himself back in the theater, which made it necessary for him to defer and de fer a lot of Hollywood engagements. When the play finally ran out—only to become the most popular sophisti cated item in the programs of sum mer stock and amateur groups—he finally reverted to Hollywood and directing. He didn't like either as much as he had during those other 10 years. That's why he is back. * * * * Bulletin board: "Louisiana Pur chase” will remain at the Earle for an extra session starting tomorrow. . . . The adult dance production group of the Jewish Community Center will present its first full length concert program tonight at 8:45. . . . Flora Blumenthal Atkin is directing. ... As well as partici pating. . . . "Lady for a Night.” with Joan Blondell, will be the Pix next .attraction. Miss Lupino Is Glamorized, But Keeps Wickedness By HAROLD HEFFERNAN. HOLLYWOOD. We cam# upon a sight yesterday that no Hollywood eye has witnessed In a great many moons. Yes, sir—Ida Lupino all dressed up! She wore a dinner dress with long sleeves and a white wool top. Her draped skirt was of metal cloth in a paisley pattern. She wore a heavy coiled gold bracelet set with emeralds. "Gosh,” she said, staring into a full-length mirror. "I feel like that ola iaay in Alice in wonaeriana, • or ‘Mother Goose,’ who said, ‘Can this be I?’ Where’s the party. These can’t be my working clothes,” Miss Lupmo, as every schoolgirl AMUSEMENTS. RKO KEITH'S A WASHINGTON INSTITUTION OPPOSITE U S TREASURY ON 15TH ST Starts TODAY..! DOORS OPEN 10:45 A. M. 1 i “V 1 "^tASIa„ Hi - */, 4/y* T”- ***$$& <2* FILL LENGTH FEATURE IN TECHNICOLOR ...it will AMAZIA!! ^ and to further at NO ADVANCE IN OU R REGULAR PRICES!!! ^ WITH ( LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI AND MUSIC AS PLAYED BY , THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA Added... MARCH OF TIME "FAR EAST COMMAND" thrilling screen experience NEWS W EEK Coming . ^ ''ALL THAT MONEY CAN tyf*" r probably knows. Is not an actress noted for setting new styles on the screen. She is noted for going crazy, for being mean, for heavy dramatics. “Bette Davis roles," they call them In Hollywood. She gets to wear the stylish gar ments in “The Hard Way,” just get ting under way at Warner Brothers. Against all Lupino rule and prece dent, Ida will be trigged out in no less than 28 costumes, all designed by Orry Kelly, one of the towTi's chief fashion masters. * * * * Any woman, of course, would be pleased about all those fancy togs, ■ but the Lupino is particularly happy because she gets the glamour-garb without having to abandon her favorite role of meanie. In fact, her part in "The Hard Way” is de signed to make all her vixen roles look like Persian kitties. Her bad ness bounces off that nice little girl, Joan Leslie, which will probably make Joan seem all the sweeter and Ida all the meaner. “It s fun to wnggle Into an evening gown just for a change, even In the daytime." said Ida, as she inspected a dozen other formals laid out for her approval in Orry Kelly's work shop. “This is really the first one I’ve had on in months and months." This was probably no exaggera tion, because Ida's night life is not composed of parties at Clro’s or smart gatherings at the homes of stars. Her evenings are spent with her ambulance corps. She never discusses her war work, but it is known, however, that she requires a new uniform about every fort night. It seems that she gets into a lot of mud and grease and some times snags the seat of her trousers. There are mornings when she comes to work with circles under her eyes and traces of mud under her finger nails. Ida Lupino, so to speak, is a lady of the evening only in the morn AMUSEMENfS. SUNDAY, 4 P. M. Constitution Hall NATIONAL SYMPHONY MANS KINDLES, Conductor Prokojieffs "PETER AND THE WOLF" RICHARD HALE, Narrator BEETHOVEN. Symphony No. li VI VALDI-BACH. Concerto, STKACSS, Ttlee from the Vienne Woodc, etc. Seett: 55c, 83c. 51 10, 51.65. ,2.30. At Symphony Box Office, Kitt'a, 1330 O St. NA. 7332. jj DANCING. MORALE . . 1< Important for vic tory . . . and danclne 1» one a of the prime factor* of 1 America's hlih morale. C Learn the latest steps now. 4 Drop In for a free tuest 1 lesson today. ARTHUR MURRAY 1101 Con*. Ava. Dl. 2460 . ings—when the dons one of the 38 new gowns. ♦ * * * Jack Roper, a heavyweight con tender of some years back. Is get ting $100 a day for teaching Victor Mature, the beautiful hunk of man, to look like a fighter for his forth coming battle scenes In "Strictly Dynamite.” Roper, who will be kayoed by Ma ture in the opening fight of this musical comedy, upped his price for the picture by $500 when he dis covered he would have to be shown taking the count. "I may not be as good as I once was,” commented Roper, "but a fel low still has his pride to consider.” * * * * Jane Darwell, whose tires began blowing out the day after rubber rationing became effective, has pur chased a motor scooter. "Dignity be blankety-blanked," commented Miss Darwell, speaking of the conveyance she now uses In getting to and from the studio. “The thing gets me around, goes a hun dred miles on a gallon of gas and is a blanked sight better than walking.” (Released by the North American Newspaper Alliance, me.) Helen Hayes Sought “Miss Appleby Gets Her Answer,” an original screen story by Val Bur ton, has been purchased by Para mount to be submitted in screen play form to Helen Hayes In an effort to win her back to Hollywood. Despite her refusal of screen roles, Buddy De Sylva, Paramount pro duction chief, believes that the role of Miss Appleby would prove an attractive vehicle for the actress. The story is a romance set against the backgrounds of the United States in the First World War and the present one. In it a lovely young girl in 1917 writes a note “To Whom it May Concern” and incloses it in a Red Cross kit she has made. She gets no answer until 25 years later, when the kit, undistributed in the first war, is given a soldier in the current conflict. He believes the undated letter to have been written by a young woman of today, and answers it. Miss Appleby, now 45, eventually promotes a romance be tween her niece and the service man. __ AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. ■■■■■ 5553 fraiMTI I STARTS SATURDAY 1 Jtai jifta mwm, mi LADY FOR i A NIGHT Pm Bat MiPOtfTQN AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. 13th St. H.W. Near F Doors Open 10:30 a.m. I Bob HOPE 1 Vera ZORINA 1 Victor MOORE F IMA \ ^ 'The Utmost in Dancing" \ Listers * with Irene Dona* Bordoni 9 Drake Raymond Walburn Songs by IRVING BERLIN F St., N.W. 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