The Common Law' Opens at Mayfair
The CommonLaw'Opens atMayfair STAGE Constance Bennett Considers Her Role In 'The Common Lou? One of Her Best "l like Valerie Wejt She h»J character and courage." That la the way Constance...
...This is Clarence Darrow'a interpretation of evolution, and together with Dr...
...Monday evening, July 30—"Acad•emlc Festival...
...be made in these days of falling stock markets and imminent revolution...
...In support of Miss Stanwyck ppear Ben Lyon, Joan Bloodell, nark Gable, Ralf Haroirte, Charles Vinninger and Edward Nugent Villi am A. Wellman directed...
...In connection with the feature, "Dolly Macht Karriere," will be shown the so well known Ufa educational program...
...Overture to "Tannhauaer," Wagner...
...Night Nurse," starring Barbaa Stanwyck and written by Dora aacy, author of "Ex-Mistress," is tow at the Strand Theatre...
...aknperor Walts, Jobann Strauss...
...with her impressions of Nora Bayee in the Rector scene, singing "Harvest Moon...
...The Fox B'klyn Offers Big BUI-'Hush Mammy* On Screen—Fanchon And Marco Revue The Fox Brooklyn Thea lie's show Una week la worthy of the house's motto: "like Biggest Show Value in Brooklyn...
...That la the way Constance Bennett feels about the girl aha playin The Common Law," her nee R-K-O Pa the starring picture now it the Mayfair Theatre...
...7, Mahler (first time at the Stadium...
...on the stage la a tremendous show tallied under the title of Fanchon * Marco's "Talent" Idea, which does not include the talents of Sam Jack Kaufman, mast err of ceremonies...
...but in a wider sense It means simply change, development in the course of time...
...Jay Qoaqr T. Harburg, Ira ssajgak thy Fields and JfathJ Howard Dietz, VsBSf M [est Stolx, WaJgJtean Robineon...
...The Common Law," as it has >eee brought to the screen is a iaringiy modernized version of Ftobert V> Chambers' famous lOveL Joel McCrea portrays tii...
...Harry Archer aadjjtij Songs and lyrics tens posed by Irving Bsjfafl deary...
...Soloists: Jeanette Vreeland, soprano...
...Dan Gridley, tenor...
...Tuesday, evening, July 31—Symphony No...
...One wul be tried out in Denver during the Summer, and the other win be subjected to test by one of the assail dramatic organizations operating In New England...
...Smart Money" To Stay at Winter Garden "Smart Money", starring Edward G. Robinson and featuring Fames Cagnel, goes into its fifth week of capacity business at the Winter Garden, Thursday night Warner officials estimate that it moll be good for at least three weeks more, bringing it within shnllatMflag distance of the long run set by "The Dawn Patrol" last July, August and September...
...James P. Snyder's Wonder Bear...
...Irene Purcell plays opposite Mr...
...I am not going to say she wee right in defying conventions Sometimes the established standards seem stupid and silly bui they have stood the test of time and are fundamentally sound Right or wrong, however, she has character and that is the only sort of role I like to play...
...Bob West, featured organist, and Eddie Magill, crooner...
...Featured in "Die Lustigen Weiber von Wien" are Willy Forst, Lee Parry, Irene Eislnger (star of "Die Foersterchrfstel"), Paul Hoerbiger, Oskar Sima and Cordy Mudwitsch...
...The diction of the whole east was much better than average...
...Max and Ktote Philip Charlg...
...Sketches hm>teneoot by K I PhiiiipvfJmBe i Heywood Broun, ssatit...
...Scherzo from "Midsummer - Night's Dream...
...In the past only one performer in the famous revue has always stopped the show, as the theatrical profession goes...
...The Civic Light Opera Company has done very well by itself in th* latest production in Its Gilbert and Sullivan repertory...
...There are no less than three headllners on this week's vaudeville bill with Elizabeth Morgan, the beautiful dance star and her "Continental Revue...
...Nevada Van Der Veer, contralto...
...All fn all however a trip to Iolanthe is one of the most profitable investments that can...
...The gang Is finally Imprisoned...
...Parahley...
...A best-seller as a novel, "Night furse" originally was booked for be Hollywood Theatre, but It waa leclded to open it instead at the it rand for an Indefinite run...
...6 In B minor, Dvorak (from the New World...
...Harry Rich man then cornea forth and stops the show with the beautiful "Broadway Reverie" number followed by an astonishing Imitation of Al Jolaon...
...The supporting cast Includes Humphrey Bogart, who starred In David Belasco's New York success, "It's a Wise Child" James Kirkrood, Robert Warwick, Richard rocker, Earl Ptngree and Rita La Etoy...
...Joan Bennett as Janet Gordon plays the rols of a young and beautiful girl, driven by poverty to accept the patronage of a presumably cultured and wealthy man, but soon finds he la a racketeer and there la no escape for her but pose as his wife...
...Ziegfeld's previous achievements...
...4 In B flat major ("Romantic"), Bruckner...
...Prelude to "Die Meisterslnger," Wagner: ¦ Introduction to Act m of "Die Melsterslneer," Wagner: Prise song from "Die Meisterslnger," Wagner...
...f>aul Ellis and Walter Walker are >thers in the supporting cast Paul * Stein directed...
...1, Liszt...
...Thursday and Friday evenings, July 33 and 34—(In case of rain this program will be postponed until the following day and a substitute orchestral program will be played in the Great Hall...
...Tim Ryan and Irene Noblette, king, dance and wise-crack...
...Montgomery in the feminine lead —and the supporting cast includes Charlotte Greenwood, C. Aubrey Smith, Breyl Mercer, Reginald Owen and Alan Mowbray...
...Robert Montgomery In Second Starring Picture-"The Man m* Possession" at Capitol The newest Metro-GoldwynMayer star—Robert Montgomery —win be seen at the Capitol Theatre for the week beginning today in his second starring vehicle —"The Man in Possession " This is a picturizatlon of the stage farce which had a long and successful run in New York last year...
...Moulan were Herbert Watrous as Private Willis, Vera Ross as the Queen of the Fairies, and Frederick Persson as The Karl of Mountararat They were ably supported by the remainder of the cast, although the mechanical brightness and vitality of Vivian Hart was not so appealing aa ft seems to some of the metropolitan critics...
...This Week on Stage "Iolamthc," Gilbert And Sullivan Series, At Erlanger's Thea...
...A Holy Terror" On Roxy Screen "A Holy Terror," the romance if a Broadway boy and a Gopher Prairie girl, occupies the screen tt the Roxy tills week...
...Earl LaVere, the story-teller and Larry Sanders, the novel aerialist...
...Because she has had an affair rith a man she thought she loved, ¦he does not see why She is not lust as good as her artist lover, who has had several...
...For good measure, each one of the nineteen-scenes created by Joseph Urban gets a hand and deservedly, for they are based on substantial art principles rather freakish modernistic design...
...Broun Presents*^ The Works" mi At the C&hmm Htywood Broun, %% m with Milton Rajaoa, 1 new revue, "Shoot On 1 the George M. Om Tuesday evening...
...and Felovls, Europes master manipulator, sharin the honors...
...Saturday evening, July 25—Overture "Benvenuto Cellini," Berlioz: Symphony No...
...One of the former, "Alice Takats," by Dezso Szmory, has been announced...
...The opening number is one of the most enchanting pieces of loveliness on the revue stage disclosing seventy glorified girls in a pink symphony...
...Tolanthe," always one of the most delightful of tile Savoyard operettas, has given the cast an opportunity to do the best work it has done this season...
...Fanchon A Marco present on he stage another one of their regime vaudeville units, offering iarry Savoy fa "No Foolin," with Mteebehan...
...Nelson Eddy, baritone, and Schola Cantorum...
...The picture was directed by Geza von Botvary with a musical score by Robert Stolx, both of whom contributed in like capacity to "Two Hearts in Waltz Time...
...Cinema "Stormo Atlantico" the first film record of the flight of 12 Italians with Gen...
...Night Nurse" Is a drama of the conflicting forces of ethics and huoanity, involving the question mother a nurse, who sees all, dare ell an that she knows...
...6 in B minor ("Pathetlque"), Tchaikovsky...
...Symphony No...
...9 In D minor, Beethoven...
...The next one to tie the show in a knot is lovely Ruth Etting...
...The music in this new Ufa talkie is by three composers, the well known Rudolph Nelson...
...Charlie Melson accompanied by Miss Iranette, the dancing violinists...
...Jeanne :arr ta "Dances of Today and Yeserday...
...AO of us make mistakes oi one kind or another," the blonde star rontinned "Valerie West made a serious one and she had the courage te admit it and face the consequences...
...Lew Cody, H. B. Warner Zasu Pitts and Nance O'Nell are among the important players supporting the seductive star of "Millie" in her new triumph...
...The huge tree.with its many branches serves as a summary of the animal kingdon after nature scenes of all leading species have been shown in their order of evolution from the lowest single-celled creatures to the highest of mammals...
...It la a run Movietone picture based on Max Brand's novel, "Trailin...
...From Leo Brecher's Carnegie Playhouse up on West 57th street come glowing reports of the conspicuous success attending the run of "Die Lustigen Weiber von Wien" or "The Merry Wives of Vienna...
...Hungarian Rhapsody No...
...The Six MarinelU Girls," 'Sensational Gymnasts," and Harriett Nawrott and Boys - 'Night Nurse" with Barbara Stanwyck Begins Indefinite Run At the Strand Thea...
...after which Mitzl Mayfair again stops- the show with her marvellous dance—unbelievable combmatianof grace and acrobatics...
...It is this question that the film endeavors to answer, carrying one from the beginning of the world to the present development of the highest forms o: life...
...The Mystery of Life" Proves Popular at RKO Cameo, Is Held Over— Darrow Seen, Heard "The word evolution makes us think of monkeys and men, the origin of species of animals and plants...
...Die Lustigen Weiber Von Wien" Breaks All Records at Br echo's Little Carnegie Thea...
...Kurt Gerron, who discovered Dolly Haas, also plays in this, her first film, in' which he shows his great talent as a comedian...
...The direction la the work of Irving Cununinga, who in the years rone by, alternately portrayed aeroes and villains on the New fork dramatic stage...
...son, Sig Herzig, Pdatei Hazzard and Edwnti...
...Sharing the honors with Mr...
...The operetta itself ta too wen known to require any other comment except to any that Ramsay MacDonald must find its remark anent England's peerage very much to the point aa the House of Lords turns down ads pet measures one after Aa the Lord Chancellor Frank Moulan took top- honors, accomplishing the almost Impossible feat of making every weed hi the patfar song understandable...
...Plans concerning the other production will not be made public until both pieces have been subjected to audience tests...
...This year, however, the "Follies," now considered the greatest In the entire series, is one extraordinary succession of "show stoppers...
...LARRY ROGTN...
...Overture "Chanticleer," Mason: Pacific 331, Honegger...
...Overture, Brahma: Symphony in B minor ("Unfinished") Schubert: Symphony No...
...Merry Wives" win continue indefinitely at Little Carnegie...
...Producer of "The Green Pastures" To Do Three Plays Next Season Three potentialities will monopolize the activities of Laurence Rivers, Inc., in addition to "The Green Pastures," which win be transported bodily to Chicago at the close of the run at the Mansfield Theatre, and established at the Illinois Theatre there for an extended engagement Two dramas and a comedy constitute the tentative schedule for Fall production...
...A Victory Ban," Schelling: Spanish Caprice, RlmskyKorsakoff...
...Then Frank and Milt Britton and their wild gang stop the show with twelve minutes'of continuous laughter...
...Over last week-end, with most of the town's playhouses scantily attended, this tuneful and amusing product of the German film industry was responsible for a new all-time record in paid admissions, with many hundreds reported turn, ed away from the box office...
...of New York Overture "Leonore" No...
...Nachtmusiken from Symphony No...
...Others on the eight act vaudeville show are Harry and Dan Downing, the hokum comedy experts...
...Marion Smiling, Ftobert Williams, Hedda Hopper...
...On the screen mere is Joan Bennett fa "Hush Money...
...young irtis t. Lew Cody...
...At the) Eighth St...
...Hush Money*' dips down into the ranks of the high class confidence men and exposes them...
...Prelude and Finale from "Tristan and Isolde," Wagner...
...that is, the applause is so great that the rest of the show cannot continue...
...Wednesday evening, July 22—Symphonic Suite, "Scheherazade," Rrmsky-Korsakoff...
...This, the enthusiastic press department of Little Carnegie would have you 'know, is something of an achievement particularly at this time of the year...
...WILL EM VAN HOOGSTKATEN ¦ft, CONDUCTOR Sunday evening, July IS—Symphony In D minor, Francs...
...Darrow enjoys discussing evolution above any other subject the question of greatest interest being "How did the world come into existence and get to be the way it is, and bow is man related to the rest of nature...
...Oskar Karlweiss, well known to the American audiences through parts played in "Zwel Herzen Im Dreiviertel Takt...
...3, Beethoven...
...Mendelssohn...
...The Ufa actor-director, Kurt Gerron discovered this young star on a tour through Germany last year.and after a tryout at the sound studios he was amazed by the ability and talent of little Dolly...
...It is no wonder, therefore, that the "Follies" are pronounced incomparable, and surpassing all of Mr...
...Complaint also should be made against the costuming of the fairies...
...George P. Wilson with ideas Beers, "Europe's foremost Philosopher and Pianist...
...H. M. Parahley, professor of zoology at Smith College, he discusses the entire matter in detail on the screen of the RKO Cameo Theatre where "The Mystery of Life" is now in Its third week...
...The picture is played and directid by people well known to Broadray...
...Woman of Experience' And Big Headline Vaudeville Bill This Week at the "Hip" Helen Twelve trees in "Woman of Experience" the RKO Pathe drama of love and intrigue in Vienna Is the screen feature at the Hippodrome William Bakewell...
...She also had the courage to hold out against convention and her own desires in ai effort to avoid making a aeconc one...
...Upon release, the Gordon' girl determines to go straight, but finds : t a tough struggle throughout the remainder of the picture...
...she certainly was going tr» ret ahead, for she rose' to stardom in utr first picture, "Dolly Macht Karriere- ¦--'-'*" tit direction of Anatol Lltwak...
...Following these triumphs comes blonde Dorothy Dell, stopping the show with her daring and sophisticated number, 'Was L" Then gorgeous Helen Morgan appears with Harry Rlchman and stops the show with Walter Donaldson's hit sons;, "I'm With You...
...The Dawn Patrol" ran ten weeks...
...YhM mainly by Nunnely Jg| dances have been abjjB ay Boyle, and the ifam ed by Ted Ksmmetfsmw Headed by Mr Brcsgj includes Jack Hajagfl Boyle, Edward J. stasM liam Oneal, George sfl Johnson, Lee Brody, j Frances Dewey, Pjsaj Taylor Gordon, asjfl Virginia Smith, IM Margaret Riley, Imogen...
...Love, to her, a more important than marriage rows...
...Italo Balbo from Italy to Brazil, will have its American Pi mills ij at the Eighth Street Playhouse beginning Monday, Jury The New "FoUies" Said To Be Ziegfield's Best The Ziegfeld "Follies" of 1981, now on view at the Ziegfeld Theatre, breaks a tradition that has continued for twenty-two editions...
...Then comes the sensational Hal LeRoy, called the "Jack Donahue" of the day...
...Evolution of animal life is presented convincingly and simply by an animated Tree of life, an idea developed by Dr...
...New Ufa Picture at • The Cosmopolitan Starting Friday, July 17, a new j Ufa talking and singing comedy comes to the Ufa Cosmopolitan, entitled "Dolly Macht Karriere.'' In this film Ufa introduces for the first time to America a new artist, the personification of pep, Dolly Haas...
...The Valerie West of "The Common Law" is an artists' model who falls in love with the young painter for whom she poses...
...She has modern ideas about love, marriage and moral standards while he is thoroughly conventional minded...
...It has been adapted from the Hungarian for American presentation by Jose Ruben...
Vol. 13 • July 1931 • No. 3
