Douglas Daily Dispatch

Broadway Stage Finds New Star

NEW YORK. (A.P.)—Out of the obscure by-ways off Broadway a new face and voice have appeared to grace the dramatic stage. Barbara Stanwyck, heroine of "Burlesque," came up from nowhere to score one of the first hits of the theatrical season. Because no one along the Rialto had ever heard of her before, Miss Stanwyck was accepted as another example of "type" casting, for she had been a singing, dancing member of a night club chorus. Desiring to demonstrate, however, that she is not restricted to a single type of role, she hopes that Arthur Hopkins, producer of her current vehicle, will put on a social comedy for her at special matinees. She prefers "Candida" or "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray."

Meanwhile another actress, who "arrived" several years ago and since has achieved a reputation of note, is appearing in a play written, it is reported, to suit her own particular type. Somerset Maugham wrote "The Letter," his drama of the tropics, more than three years ago—especially for Katharine Cornell, so the story goes. Messmore Kendall, producer, agreed with Maugham that Miss Cornell was the only actress who could play the vivid, melodramatic role, so he acquired the American rights immediately and laid the play on the shelf pending completion of her engagements in "The Green Hat."