The Theater: In Los Angeles

The Marriage Bed—Ernest Pascal, novelist, Ernest Pascal, film scenarist, becomes Ernest Pascal, playwright. While preparing dramas for the cinema he wrote a play, last week produced in Los Angeles with considerable California éclat and a good smattering of sound Manhattan theatre. It was an able play, staged with excellent ability by Robert Milton, famed Broadway director.* The principal performers were Alice Joyce and Owen Moore, cinemactors.

Following his novel of the same name Playwright Pascal proved why a wife should not divorce a husband who has been unfaithful. He placed his characters in the suburbs, brought the husband's woman out to see...