Eva Le Galliene As "Gentle Juliet"
Eva Le Galliene As "Gentle Juliet" THE WEEK ON THE STAGE By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY FAITH MOVES MOUNTAINS ROMEO AXD JULIET. By William Shakespeare. Ca-ic Repertory 7 healre. rjpHOSE who have...
...This emphasis is concordant with the stir of the play itself...
...In a telegram sent to his offices today from Hollywood, Mr...
...Strangely enough, for what everyone concerned has been bemoaning as a bad season, there are quite a number of plays still on tbe boards that can be heartily recommended to readers of this paper...
...STJeLL TO BE SEEN Now that summer plays begin to come upon us, summer visitors land some New Yorkers) may wonder what shows there are still worth seeing...
...By right of longest run (it opened Jan...
...the members of the cast of this great houranda-halfs worth of entertainment are unanimous in saying that, in making "Paramount on Parade" a wonderful time was bad by all Of the players now, or recently in - New York, Chevalier...
...Eva Le Gallienne's Juliet...
...There is no need to compare Eva Le Gallienne's work, for its quality, with that of other great Juliets one has read of or seen...
...France and Italy are also well represented, with "Topexe...
...Paramount on Parade' Hit at Rialto Theatre "Paramount on Parade," the big party now being given by thirtyfive Paramount stars and featured players at the Rialto Theatre is just that Ruth Chatterton, Clara Bow, Maurice Chevalier, George Bancroft Mltzi Green, etc...
...and Drink water's "BirtT^fn^ Hand," which mingles some good political satire with its uproarious comedy...
...It is not the audience that...
...Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field...
...In this fuedheat...
...Thomas Kilpatrick assembled a truly effective minstrel group, whose quick departure means that Broadway did not wake to a good thing in time...
...The present playing lays perhaps a greater shade of stress upon the firmness that underlies the fresh, sweet virgin love of Juliet end holds her faithful, in love's tragic course...
...Fraser" with Grace George...
...In lowering my prices t deliberately made a gift to the theatregoing public of $5,380 a week, which represents the difference between a $5 and $6 price scale...
...and somewhat lower in dramatic tone Nina Gom bell's good work in "Nancys Private Affair" and William Hodge's genial picture of 'The Old Rascal.- Ruth Draper's excellent work is in its last weekhut any night at the Civic Repertory Theatre on 14th street will reveal a play and a performance well worth one's while...
...But there are that deft piece of comedy, "Strictly Dishonorable," which hasn't had an empty seat since it opened: and "Th- Last Mile" with its gripping scenes in the death house: and the season's surprise (and the next Pulitzer winner...
...made these minstrels fail, but those who stayed away...
...for the present acting version of Shakespeare's tragedy preserves the sense of fray and clashing arms to dire ending...
...The public has been quick to take advantage of this reduction and I am highly pleased with the results...
...It is not often that I yield to superlatives, but Eva Le Gallienne's intelligent command of her role, which I have always praised, fuses here with a fervent, passionate power that makes her Juliet glamorous, at once real with tbe bravery of innocent love and unreal with the shining beauty of true art...
...Ziegfield Not to Raise Prices Florenz Ziegfeld today denies the report that he will increase the box office prices of his production of Ed Wynn in "Simple Simon" at the Ziegfeld Theatre, despite the rumor that the prices will be raised...
...And I do not, believe in taking advantage of the public even though I could just as easily get SI to $2 more for every seat which is sold at my theatre...
...rjpHOSE who have granted Eva X Le Gallienne the courage of her convictions, and a modicum of intelligence as a director, but little emotional power as an actress, are now confounded...
...the greatest hit of my career, will remain at from $1 to J5...
...everybody there—so far as I took time from the show tp judge—was fully entertained...
...Following in length of run come the two plays that dispute with the Pulriser prize-winner the palm of the season's best: Sheriffs "Journey's End," the womanless tense picture of men in the trenches...
...Jack Oakie, Helen Kane and Mi tzi Green verify- the opinion that everyone enjoyed themselves more than ever before, and this spirit is shown on the screen...
...Eva Le Galliene As "Gentle Juliet" THE WEEK ON THE STAGE By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY FAITH MOVES MOUNTAINS ROMEO AXD JULIET...
...For this brave and brainy woman, young in her Juliet, gives one of the most moving and most beautiful presentations of recent years...
...the destined victim of the broils moves with a frail, perturbed majesty, until ell who see her are won to agree that...
...so also A. A. Milne's "Michael and Mary" and Shaw's "The Apple Cart," which need no recommendation beyond mention of their authors...
...his sermon, which consists of repeating and re-emphasizing the alphabet, kept the audience in the proverbial uproar...
...In fact, 'Simple Simon' is such a tremendous success that no matter what admission scale was used, business would still be capacity...
...Altogether, there's enough around—I've mentioned no musical plays—for every taste still to enjoy, and profit by, the season...
...Leon a Roberta, as Juliet's nurse, continues the excellent character work we expect of her: and Layre Crawley is an effective Friar Lawrence...
...10, 1929) first mention goes to Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," tbe naturalistic study of types of New York, hung together by a melodrama...
...A Month in the Country" is their offering of a Russian comedy...
...Connelly's "The Green Pastures," where God walks the stage and sends the flood to destroy an evil race...
...The settings "and light effects, the directing, and tbe supporting cast, all'add to tbe power of this Juliet Outstanding is the playing of J. Edward Bromberg- as Mercutio: this rollicking blade fits him as its true sheath...
...Barry's "Hotel Universe" their provocative American piece—all produced with the Guild's supreme finish...
...the prices for 'Simple Simon...
...MERRY MINSTRELS The first minstrel show New York York City has seen since 1908 went down to quick-and-undeserved failure, but* one or two of its features lure my pen...
...So far only Rice and Barry have been named...
...What of plays by Americana...
...I saw the show on its last night and humorous comments on the iminent closing added to the sense of intimacy and the amusement: and especially in the work of Sidney Easten and Bert Howell, whose genuinely funny antics and music should assure them of Broadway popularity...
...while the Jed Harris prodnction of "Uncle Vanya" with Lillian Gish scores one more for the Russians...
...Not so good as plays, but marked by excellent- acting, are "Dishonored Lady...
...an excellent study in characterchange, and "Death Takes a Holiday," an eerie yet tense drama in Pirandello's vein—Both presented by the Shuberts\ who total highest in the list of worth while plays, with three others here named...
...Donald Cameron, as Romeo, does not match his bride, but bears the action well enough, in sound performance, to leave us the more enrapt bv the .tender strength of the s-ason's best performance...
...in which Katherine Cornell is quietly poignant...
...Ziegfeld said: "Despite the fact that a number of musical productions in New York, none of which cost as much to produce as my show, are "now charging $6.60...
...The first of these is one of the best "buck-andwing" dancers I have seen in years, William "Porkchops" Cornish, whose easy grace and quiet poise contrast with and heighten the complex and difficult steps his feet patter through...
...the often irresistible "Rebound," with Hope VVTlliams...
...Berkely Square," Balderston's venture into relativity, is another effective English play...
...Speaking of "The Apple Cart' has brought us to tbe Guild...
...The First Mrs...
...These two plays are from England...
...each is valid in her personality...
...He is indeed "the man with the talking feet" Then there is Harrison Blackburn's take-off of a church meeting...
...I announced recently, I believe that a lower price for musical comedies would do more to bring people back to the legitimate theatre than anything I know...
Vol. 10 • March 1930 • No. 13
