The Week On The Stage
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
The Week On The Stage By Joseph T. Shipley > .... MT SIC AX. COMIDV ON MOVIES "AMERICAS SWEETHEART." Book by Herbert Fields, music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorens Hart. At the...
...The Chicago anarchists had brief word in Steele Mackaye's drama, "Anarchy," the Boston martyrs have their greater document...
...Konrad Bercovici, noted writer of stories on gypsy themes, is planning to come with several tribes of gypsies who are wintering in the vicinity of New York...
...The rest of the supplementary program remains intact...
...By Franklin Russell...
...Also "Lost Gods" "The Gorilla" will be held over a second week at the Warner Theatre...
...The three young ladies from the mountains of the Boats—Hilda, Louise and Maxina Form an—drone nasal discords into arr.using harmony...
...Flo Lewis Added To the Hipp BUI Flo Lewis, the red-headed flapper, who has just returned from an extensive foreign tour that took her as far as the South Seas, will return to R-K-O vaudeville this Saturday, via the Hippodrome...
...T h e dwellings, habits, education and legends of the Malay tribes have been inspired by the tiger,'' asserts Sehoedsack, co-director with Marian C. Cooper of "Chang.'' "To the native he is a striped fury, responsible for an ave.age of fifty deaths annually in the tribal villages of northwestern Sumatra...
...THE GREAT BARRINGTON...
...they have • fj'.ure...
...MOKE HORRORS OF WAR "COMRADES OF 1918...
...a certain particular . . . " There is beauty in the chorus, both of individuals and «f swirling dance design...
...Gypsies to Go Modernistic at Village Ball Even the gypsies have gone modernist...
...Rango" at The Rivoli Is a Colorful Story Of the Malay Jungle The Malay jungle Is domtnatert by the tiger...
...Dezso Retter, the world's champion laugh wrestler...
...The play of Inez Courtney and Harriette Lake is more rollicking, and more innocent, like a daisy and a Violet beside an orchid...
...We heard several persons, leaving the theatre, say: "If half these stuck-up families knew the story of their past, I bet...
...German talkie at the Cameo, from the novel "Four From the Infantry," by Ernest Johannsen...
...she'd turn a Pharaoh's tomb into a phallic symbol...
...Without himself passing judgment, Dreiser has written a wide and searching indictment of American capitalist life...
...Jimmy O'Brien and Jack Hewitt, songiand's personality boys...
...There's So Much More," "I want a Man"— her songs and words aad ways are the essence of woman's wiles...
...Here we see a young man caught in the pressure of capitalist society—no superman, no villain, but an average product of the age—pounded by the forces that rise inevitably out of this system, tempted and twisted and'torn...
...Out in California, still alive, are Mooney and Billings, victims of the same class war, but still to find the recorder of their story...
...The picture is played against a background of the underworld, fashionable night clubs and the inner sanctum of a big city police department Two Good Reminders The production of "Gods of the Lightning" a> the Provincetown Playhouse is a strong reminder of the Sacco-Vanzetti murder by Massachusetts—set down for all time in Upton Sinclair's "Boston...
...But it Is good to note how, these days, almost every comedy stops its story for a horselaugh a t ' the (more costly) farce from the White House...
...Other tribes believe In the ''pawangrimboe" which m e a ns tiger-familiar, a beast invested with the benevolent capacity to watch over and portect villages and individuals...
...Jeanne Aubert may be depended upon to infuse sex-consciousness into an embalmed mummy...
...Frisco and Gribbon are cast in roles of Mulligan and Garrity, two dumb detectives who see all, hear an and know nothing...
...these are moments one is unlikely to forget (at least until the careful propaganda is begun...
...feminine lead...
...Until then, man continues to grow more efficient, not more understanding, more just...
...But the occasion is a special one, for Prescott is to read the newly found deed to the property, which was not bought, but presented to the first Prescott "for distinguished services to the community.*' There never has been a blot on the Barrington name . . . And by a double level of time, we watch, intermingled with this story, the actual events of 1630, and l e an that the first Prescott Barrington was a thief and a murderer named Higjpns, who created his name and story, and was given the estate for marrying a servant Peter Van Doors had got with child...
...Archie Mayo directed...
...Native legends spun about the mysterious potency of tigers,'presented a serious problem in Sehoedsack' s jungle camp Some natives believe that all tigers are the reincarnation of departed spirits and a curse follows those who IdH them...
...Vivid pictures such as "Comrades of 1918," practical scientists with social Ideals, like vnnmtM-n must be supplemented by many a Debs and a Gandhi before "profit" Is beaten and peace and progress secured...
...For not even the closing handshake of the two enemies can clasp the world in peace, nor all the desire of all common men, against bloody treaties built out of revenge and greed, against a world organized for profit rather than progress...
...Jack Holt and Tom Moore are teamed in the featured roles, with' Constance Cummings in the...
...Georgie Tapps and his Dance Mannequins, eight exuberant steppers with Marion Lane...
...Perhaps he will come, also, when they have been buried, adding to the toll presumptuous power takes...
...Charles Butterworth and Ricardo Cortex are featured in this drama of a girl who believed that marriage doomed romance...
...One is tempted to call this play a musical "Once in a Lifetime," toe It traffics* lightly with hollow Hollywood in the days when talkies first took the land...
...They will appear in costumes made of modern industrial materials...
...Erie C Kenton directed and the balance of an imposing cast includes: Gaylord Pendleton, Robert Ellis, Erie Bunn, "Vivi," Jess De Vorska, Robert Graham, Ed Le Saint, Clarence Muse, Edmund Breese and Glno Corrado...
...There is kidding in "The Great Barrington," often more pointed than deft, but often drawn—we hope deliberately—to the edge of the ludicrously overdone, on the subject of snobbery...
...The Gorilla" Held Over at the Warner...
...The leading representatives of the modernist gypsies at Romany Marie's ball will be Buckminster Fuller and Mis Evelyn Schwarz...
...The advance of the Allied tanks, the hand sticking out of the mud—with all else of the body buried, the lieutenant going mad...
...Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie...
...T h e Malay huts are raised from twelve to fifteen feet above the ground, and the tiny doors and windows are closed securely at night, in spite of the heat, to prevent the hungry cats from improving their menu...
...T he Last Parade," will- have its New York premiere at the Mayfsir Theatre, February 27...
...Harry Gribbon and Walter Pidgeon appear in their support...
...There is a new subtlety of detail in the song structure, for those who listen to the words as well as the catchy airs...
...And at the Waldorf Theatre is a dramatic version, as good, perhaps, as can be made, of the epic that arraigns American civilization: Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy...
...Karyl Norman, The Creole Fashion Plate" in one of the most beautifully staged and gowned presentations heads the eight-act vaudeville bill...
...The figures showed that in its first four days a t the Strand, "Father's Son" far exceeded the entire week's intake of "Viennese Nights,'' and in view of the excellent notices the picture was accorded, i t was decided to hold it over...
...During a year spent in the unexplored wilderness of Sumatra filming • Ttango," now a t the Rivoli, Ernest Sehoedsack found that the menace of the,tiger keeps the natives in constant tenor...
...Eddie Pardo, B r o a d w a y ' s smart comedian...
...A word is repeated —with an added shift: "What is your object...
...if he is guilty, the bewildered lad can only say, " I do not know...
...This includes a secondary feature titled "Lost Gods,'* a five-reel record of a search for lost civilizations in the great desert...
...Boston," by Sinclair...
...This will be the fts*fl given by Romany Msjfl seventeen years asjfl gypsy queen of NtOfH hernia...
...Anybody with a sense pf humor will find delectable fare in this play...
...and anybody with a soda) sense will recognize that it's as true as "Don Quixote...
...Leon Janney, Irene Rich aad Lewis Stone have the featured roles in this drama by Booth Tarklngton, adapted from his story "Old Fathers and Young Sons...
...Mich" Moves to the Beacon Theatre "Illicit," which recently concluded a successful engagement at the Winter Garden Theatre, opens simultaneously Thursday night at the Beacon and Brooklyn Strand Theatres...
...An American Tragedy," by Dreiser—two searing studies of things as they should not be—but are...
...At the Avon...
...It is Tod Browning's crown- • ing achievement and present's fiction's strangest character in the weirdest screen thriller...
...And the openins...
...Dracula" on "Hipp" Screen—Karyl Norman Part of Big Stage Bill "Dracula,'* the startling mystery is at R-K-O's Hippodrome this week with Bela Lugosi in the title role...
...Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the famous arctic explorer, who has spent many years of his life with the nomads of the far north, has taken a box and **atfH a party of his frienoi t f l evening with Remiss 9 her gypsies...
...when he is about to leave his cell for the electric chair, and the minister asks him, before God...
...There is no need to tell the story—nor to know German— in order to be stirred by this film, perhaps the most vivid of all the war pictures...
...The twelfth Prescott Barrington, millionaire oi bluest blood, is having his usual anniversary dinner in the ancestral home, on the ground acquired in 1630 from old Peter Van Doom...
...speed of the evening promises effective satire of the talking pictures, which move swiftly in popularity In spite of all adverse comment But sex and sweet sentimiat soon make the evening less a satire than a sort of musical movie on the stage...
...David Manners, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye and Edward Van Stoane are prominently in the cast...
...to prepare nations for the next war...
...At least they have gone modernist for R o m a ny Marie's "Gypsy Ball" which takes place at Webster Hall on Friday evening, March 6th...
...Marie lay* SsS the ball to cheer up SjM this depressed persstjfl always tried to caeSsjB ists by making her | | |B for them and by buysa...
...At the Broadhurst...
...When it was absolutely necessary to kill a tiger for safety, Sehoedsack usually had to perform the feat unassisted, the natives fearing a curse more than the tiger's claws...
...The "war to end war" is not military, but political, social...
...The two time-levels are brought neatly together, with the discovery of a (literal) skeleton in the family closet—and the daughter of the twelfth Prescott embraces her sweetheart, John Jones...
...what is your objection . . . a certain party...
...The Last Parade" Vivid Tale of the Racketeer, at Mayfair Columbia Pictures' tense picturization of modern gangland...
...The Last Parade" is a vivid and authentic tale of the racketeer, aad contains a powerful moral lesson...
...Father'* Son" With Splendid Cast Hold Over at The Strand "Father's Boar* will remain at the New York Strand Theatre for a second week, i t was decided late today, after a check-op of weekend and holiday receipts...
...The fun "America's Sweetheart" provides, taking it on that level, is varied and good...
...Lila Lee and Joe Frisco are cofeatured in "The Gorilla," which was directed by Bryan Foy from Ralph Spence's famous stage play...
...America's Sweetheart" should pulse foi some time in Broadway's breast...
...William Beaodtae directed...
...ALE—AND FAREWELL...
...And Gua Shy commands the slapsticks...
...Romany Marie herself will appear at the ball in a primitive gypsy costume...
...Enoa Frazere, daring aerialist and two other R-K-O features complete the stage show...
...The news-story, carefully tucked in an inconspicuous spot, that 12,500 bodies from the World War lie rotting unburied in a hangar in France, makes especially timely the horrors of the Cameo's first American showing of "Comrades of 1918...
Vol. 12 • February 1931 • No. 9
