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The New Play The Guild's 'He Who Gets Slapped9 Has

Poignance, Clamor, Good Theater.

By WARD MOREHOUSE. The New York theater, having done extraordinarily well

with revivals this season, reached back into the past again last night, bringing forth a new and adroitly produced ver­sion of Leonid Andreyev's "He Who Gets Slapped," a success as done by the Theater Guild in 1922. The Guild again makes the presentation, and this time at the Booth.

"He Who Gets Slapped"is quite! all right. It has been brilliantly staged by Tyrone Guthrie, who has created the mood and feeling and clamor of circus life behind scenes. And for all its occasional obscurity, the Booth's new play has poignance, vitality and theat­rical effectiveness. Put the Guild's new venture down as a first-rate revival.

Or, rather, as a good produc­tion of a new version—this one by Judith Guthrie—of Andreyev's ironical play. And it's a produc­tion that brings forth a perfonr ance of variety and skill from Dennis King in the role of a cyni­cal and bitter man, cruelly treat­ed in his own world, hetrayed by his wife and best friend, who seeks escape by casting his lot with a small French provincial circus.

This stranger, apparently a nobleman, and a person of liter­ary achievements, in seeking to separate himself from the harsh realities of his former associa­tions joins the circus as a clown. In the play of 1922 the man was known as He. Now he is called Funny. And Funny discovers that the circus is also full of tortured souls. He again gets caught up I- the complexities of the life from which he has fled.

He falls in love with Consuela, the beautiful bareback rider, and he finds himself with only one way of stopping the girl's ras­cally father (by adoption) from selling her in marriage to the predatory Baron. Funny solves

•HE WHO GETS SLAPPED.' New version by Judith Guthrie of

Andreyev'* original play, staged by Tyrone Uuthrle; settings ana costumes by Motley. production under supervision of TtnM'»a Helburn and Lawience L u n a r ; presented by the Theater Guild at the Hooth Theater, Wednesday eve­ning, March 20, 1846. The cast: Tilly Bobby Barry Polly CotlBt ManrlnL Fapu Briquet S lMste . Kunny Jim Ja- k«on. Consuela Alfred Bezano A (ientleman liaron KegnanL

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inscrutable aristocrat turned pro­fessional clown, as if he enjoys himself vastly—and probably for the first time this season. There is a positively delightful perform­ance from Susan Douglas as Con­suela, the innocent and bewildered little circus queen. Excellent per­formances are contributed by Stella Adler, as the lion tamer in love with her lions, and also the horseman; Reinhqld Schunzel, as the somewhat pitiable Baron;

the problem by pouring poison!John Abbott, as the impecunious into the girl's wine glass and Court Mancini; Wolfe Barzell, as sharing it with her. i t h e c i r c u s owner; Papa Briquet,

This story of bitter frustration who carries the griefs of every -and the inevitability of fate is body, and Tom Rutherford, as the told in "He Who Gets Slapped" man driven by his conscience to with all the trimmings and at- call upon Funny, he who gets mospheric hullabaloo of circus | slapped. life—sound and lighting effects, "He Who Gets Slapped," offer-off-stage music, prancing clowns, J ing a blend of realism, fantasy dancers and jugglers, and with and symbolism, holds up well aft-costuming well done by Motley. \ er twenty-four years. The Guild And the Guild's cast, under Guth- \ has brought a circus into 46th rie's direction, plays it well. ! street—a small one, but a good

Dennis King plays Funny, the one.

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Los Angeles, March 21 (A. P.), — Seventeen-year-old Wanda Hen •drix of Jacksonville, Fla., has ob­tained Superior Court approval of a movie contract with Para­mount Studios.

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