Tallulah Bankhead Comes Back to Brighten Times Square

Tallulah Bankhead Comes Back to BrightenTimes Square The Work on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley MIXED MARRIAGE "FORSAKING ALL OTHERS." By tdward Robert* and Frank Cavett. At the Time*...

...One is tempted to add (in weak imitation of their style): Burnett and Brandon and Brown Have the cleverest drama in town...
...Repentant, and returned with a Mexican divorce, again Dillon woos fair Mary...
...the Yale Puppeteers add to a genuine skill and humor in creating their figures, and a growing deftness of manipulation, a lyrical fertility in story, and expression sophisticate, in the best sense suggestive, and charming...
...At the Original Roxy "After the Ball," presented by Fox Films, with Esther Ralston and Basil Rathbone, comes to the Roxy Theatre, 50th St...
...and 7th Ave., today...
...And how the rabbits writhe in anger at thought of Margaret Sanger...
...It may readily be assumed that his genius for development of young talent had considerable to do with the accession to prominence of nineteen-year-old Toni Van Eyck, who in "Hertha's Erwachen" makes her first cinematic appearance...
...Puppet* and direction by Harry Rurnett...
...F.ddy comes in as the Fox's pwmaiient master of ceremonies...
...Principals in ''Hertha's Awakening" Influenced by Rcinhsurdt's Art It is interesting to note that the three leads iu "Hcrtha'i Erwachen" (Hertha's Awakening) at the Little Carnegie Playhouse have at one time or another during their respective careers worked under the watchful and influential hand of Max Reinhardt, one of the outstanding legitimate stage producers in the world...
...For, this time, Mary decides that the image in her heart is not of Dillon, but of Jeff...
...And, third of the Reinhardt triangle in "Hertha's Erwachen" is Ruth Hellberg, at five years of age an actress, subsequently a Reinhardt star in lit...
...And, for the first time, the organization is definitely soliciting an audience...
...but before the final turn there have been laughs enough...
...and Hampden, or I Katherine Cornell, is neatly burlesqued...
...Richard and Harry and Forman, You'll give 'em a hearty "Encore...
...34 West 46tft Street...
...Many a Broadway musical comedy has been in sore need of such deft and witty lines as Forman Brown supplies, for the amusing antics of the gay wooden folk who cavort upon the little Stage of the Yale Puppeteers...
...and once more all is arranged—and once more all goes awry...
...But when the ark reaches Ellis Island the humor deepens to satire, with Einstein and the W.C.T.U...
...Opposite, in the important male lead, is cast Hans Brausewetter, identified for several years with Ufa's screen successes...
...Faust," and now making her initial screen appearance...
...bery ('The Dream Singer"), nnd Zelda Santley headlined on the stage, and "The Ghost Train," "The New Western Front," 'Killing n,( Killer'' and a Mickey Mouse cartoon and newsreel on the bcretn, the Fox Theatre, Brooklyn, again offers a Big Bill of entertainment to Boro amusement-seekers this week...
...Don't try to defeat a persistent mosquito...
...Adele T. Katx on Music Miss Adele T. Katz will lecture at the New School for Social Research cn Wednesday, March 22nd, at 4:15, subject: Wagner's "The Meistersinger...
...But, of course, the chief attraction is the returned Tallulah Bankhead, who left us in quiet but returns in wide glory...
...Killing the Killer" is the worldfamous short depicting the battle to the death between those hereditary enemies, a mongoose and a cobra, It is brought back by popular request...
...The curtain falls too quickly for further wise-cracks...
...Cora Witherspoon, Ilka Chase and others of a sprightly cast sprinkle spicy comment upon this bride left waiting at the church, while the groom runs away with another sweet charmer...
...The play is another of the lightsome crop of matrimonial trifles, with plenty of laughs before the wedding—for who can ssy how much leisure there'll be for repentance...
...Ralph K...
...Then the movies...
...The Harris Twins and Lorelta, also on this stage bill, offer an adagio dance number...
...On Friday, March 24th, at 8:30, at the Rand School, she will talk on "Form...
...For Burnett and Brown, yes, and Brandon, Entertainers elsewhere you'll abandon...
...Back from London and Hollywood, Tallulah Bankhead brings her pleasing ways to adorn a comedy ssved (like Shskespeare's Congreve's, Anne Nichols' and Oscar Wilde's )by its dialogue...
...That Reinhardt's influence is important in the developing of dramatic players is more concretely illustrated when it is noted that "Hertha's Erwachen" has been declared by the German government an "artistic triumph," and recommended by the board in charge of cinematic activities in Germany as one of the season's noteworthy film efforts...
...The screen show is diversified...
...Caesar Julius" and his Cleopatra—not to mention the Vestal Virgins and their evening dance—make merry with madcap rhyming, aided by a bare Broun and a willing Winchell...
...The Piccoli had the advantage of years of experience, but tried no real commedia dell' arte tricks because of the language...
...man...
...Business management, Richard Brandon...
...for its final concert, postponed to Sunday, April 30, 8:30, at Town Hall, is also for the benefit of musicians in dire want...
...Fejturcd in the cast are Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, Donald Csthrop and Ann Todd...
...At the Time* Square...
...Jeff is played by Fred Keating, better known as a magician...
...There is much about her playing that deserves acclaim, but more in the personal charm her pleasant manner spreads over the evening...
...He is said to posstii a fine voice and a modest, pleasing personality...
...and the general holiness of our country caught in miniature...
...An amusing Haydn Trio precedes the main show...
...The Ghost Train" is tlie mystery thriller which, on the occasion of its New York premiere, earned praise from the newspaper critics...
...The Overture, Monteverdi, Mozart, Von Weber, Moussorgsky, Wagner, Debussy...
...and he still has a few good tricks under hh hat...
...BEETHOVEN POSTPONEMENT For the first time in the long history of the Beethoven Association, one of its concerts has been postponed—not to conflict with the Musicians' Emergency Benefit at the Metropolitan...
...There is more hilarity in a minute of these puppets than in a night of rich pretentious shows...
...Lines, lyrics, music by Forman Brown...
...but the unfortunate creature can find no timely mate— the dodos are wiser, but both of a sex, and they can't get past the dock...
...You laugh till your lips touch your ears As you hark to the Yale Puppeteers...
...Brauscwetter's connection with Reinhardt was of seven years' standing...
...in the end you are bound to get stung...
...Brandon and Brown and Burnett, Their puppets you'll never forget: Hie there, and your troubles all drown With Burnett and Brandon and Brown...
...We have already reviewed "The PieEyed Piper...
...The most discriminating among music-lovers know the treat a Beethoven Association concert always affords...
...Kirliery has proved an overnight hit on the variety staKe, just as he has on the air...
...Fox Brooklyn Offers a New sad Diversified Stage and Screen Show With Wesley Eddy...
...MISTER NOAH'S LARK "MISTER NOAH" (and Repertory) The Yale Puppeteers...
...Marian B>lett and Gil Lamb offer a song and comedy patter skit, ami the Gae Foster girls, in new precision dancti and costumes, form a supplementary background for the principals...
...Noah Is wider in his reach, for he would save even the brontossurian from the deluge...

Vol. 15 • March 1933 • No. 11


 
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