Gilbert V. Hartke

National Theatre, Washington, D.C., direction A.L. Erlanger Realty Corp. and W.H. Rapley, business management S.E. Cochran, third play of the American Theatre Society and Theatre Guild subscription season, the Theatre Guild presents "Mary of Scotland," a new play by Maxwell Anderson with Helen Hayes, Philip Merivale, Helen Menken, the production directed by Theresa Helburn, settings and costumes designed by Robert Edmond Jones.

This book is a historic novel, not a fictive work. It is the fulfillment of the vow of its author, Franz Werfel during a time he describes of great dread in the last days of 1940, as a Jew, he and his wife were in flight from their mortal enemies after the collapse of France to the National Socialists troops who occupied the border town of Hendaye. It is in the Pyrenean city of Lourdes France that Franz Werfel and his wife eluded the NAZI National Socialists. They would be concealed for several weeks as Franz Werfel became acquainted through faithful testimony the wondrous facts concerning the 14 year old girl, Bernadette Soubirous in the year 1858. The miraculous healings of Lourdes and the 18 Marian Apparitions of “the beautiful lady” who brought a message of prayer, repentance and hope to the world through a child who would become known throughout the world as Saint Bernadette. The healing waters still flows from the spring Bernadette dug with her hands, as guided by the beautiful lady known now as Our Lady of Lourdes, Mary...the Mother of Jesus Christ.

New National Theatre, W.H. Rapley, manager, T. Arthur Smith, treasurer. Farewell American tour of Madame Sarah Bernhardt and M. Coquelin, under the direction of Mr. Maurice Grau, managing director of the Maurice Grau Opera Company, "Cyrano de Bergerac," drame en cinq acts et en vers de Edmond Rostand. Scenery painted by Mr. Homer Emons.