Notes

Paris despatches tell of a new play by the famed and facile Sacha Guitry. The subject: Aviation; the title: Lindbergh.

Poor People of the stage, of whom there are plenty, read wistfully in last week's Variety (theatrical trade paper) that Al Jolson has rejected an offer of $20,000 a week for an indefinite period to appear in the prolog at the Capitol cinema theatre in Manhattan. Mr. Jolson has money, a million or more; worries about his health. Eva Le Gallienne has no faith in her belief. She believes that the state should endow a low-priced theatre for the masses. "But the state isn't interested in such things." Miss Le Gallienne solved this conflict between her faith and her belief last season by founding in Manhattan the Civic Repertory Theatre. She has distant plans for a theatre which, supported by one-dollar subscriptions from a tiny percentage of the city's citizens, could give notable drama for a fee of 50-c- a seat. These things Miss Le Gallienne told journalists last week. Journalist's discovered that the $5,000 which had just dropped into her lap would be applied to the needs of the Civic Repertory Theatre which has just opened its second season. The $5,000 had dropped into her lap from the Pictorial Review, which bestows the sum annually upon "the outstanding American woman* of the year."

*Previous prizewinners have been Marian Nevins MacDowell (wife of the late Edward A. MacDowell) for establishing artist colony at Peterborough, N. H.; Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart for educational work in the South Carolina mountains; Miss Sara Graham Mulhali, for work in suppressing traffic in narcotics.