Pauline Lord Renews Triumph in "Truth About Blayds"
Pauline Lord Renews Triumph in "Truth About Blayds" The Week on the Stage A NON-WHIMSICAL. MILNE "11111 TRUTH ABOUT BLAYDS: By A. A. Milne. At the Belaico. If you had cast aside love...
...if a whole family had lived its life for the comfort and convenience of that genius...
...Then, perhaps, a grand, satiric pageant depicting the bibulous habits of many nations...
...The village gossips are ranged along the samovar...
...John Francis Dillon directed...
...During a month of some pretty alight plays, we can be thankful for the relief of Mr...
...Miss Lord Is one of those very few actresses who can be dramatically effective .without raising her voice above a gentle conversational tone...
...That is Yushny's "Blue Bird...
...Nina Olivette, the scintillating young star who twinkled so brightly in recent musical comedies, Is offering a happy combination of her own personal ability and nine campus cheer leaders They present song, dance and fun in a collegiate manner that clicks The fun is continued by King Bros, and Culley, Harry Foster Welch, Wally Jackson and Edgar Gardner...
...Just such a situation confronts the Blayds household when the greatest poet of the Victorian era passes on into the Klysian fields and immortality...
...The scene shifts promptly...
...Stage Bill Ha* Popular Name* This is glee week at the Hippodrome...
...Petersburg, and of rural Russia on the night before Easter...
...Fortunately the acting is such that this revival of A. Milne's play at the Belasco will escape the danger of being put into the whimsical class...
...Music by Tschalkowsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Moussorgsky, Rachmaninoff — other great ones...
...Milne's revival...
...The panorama of the "Blue Bird" sweeps on...
...One by one they lampoon their absent friends, In crisp, musical dialogue...
...Having been whisked all over the, world—Paris, Scotland, Africa and Atlantic City by Universal Pictures, the Semitic George Sidney and the Irish Charlie Murray are now to be seen In the familiar locale of the western film capital, In a comedy entitled "The Cohens and Keliya in Hollywood...
...Scenes from opera, comedy, drama, and rarely splendid music...
...Quiet acting is something rare on the American stage...
...Many screen celebrities are to be seen in some of the sequences...
...A scene of old St...
...This week's stage show is best described as a "VaudeRevue" for it combines the best features of both a vaudeville show and a revue...
...Allegorical charm...
...The development Is swift, deftly handled, the comedy smooth and delightful, all In a very English atmosphere of literary reverence and filial devotion...
...A. M. Yuihny'* "Blue Bird" At the Cort Theatre The curtain parts...
...Careless Lady" is a smart and romantic comedy in whloh Miss Bennett gives one of the most delightful performances of her career...
...If you had cast aside love and marriage to devote your life to keep the fires of genius burning within an aging poet...
...Murray and Sidney are supported by June Clyde and Norman Foster, Emma Dunn, Esther Howard, Dorothy Christy, Edwin Maxwell, Eileen Percy, John Roche, Luis Alberni and Robert Creig...
...Prayers, church-bells, celebration...
...The play was presented last summer for a tryout in Greenwich, Conn., under the title of "Hallam Wives," and the present version has been staged by Mr...
...Then may come a Russian prison song, aching and plaintive...
...Another Language" Due Monday at Booth On Monday evening, April 35, Arthur J. Beckhard will present at the Booth Theatre a new play entitled "Another Language," by Rose Franken, novelist and shortstory writer...
...Beckhard with setting by Cleon Throckmorton...
...And Yushny beaming and murdering the language...
...Fred Lindsay does a most interesting and timely act "Scandal for Sale," the screen adaptation of Eraile Gauvreau's novel "Hot News," which features Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart and Pat O'Brien, is the film thriller...
...It's at the Cort "The Cohen* and Kelly* In Hollywood?* Now of The Mayfair Theatre The sixth of a succession of films dealing with the adventures of the Cohens and Kelly* is now on the screen of the Mayfair Theatre...
...murder la on his lips, for he is said to be the world's most deft and charming macerator of the English language—and other languages as well...
...and then upon his death you learned that a colossal fraud had been perpetrated, would you seek revenge, secrecy or retribution...
...She can convey with a slight gesture or nuance an impression of cultured ease and poise, Effie Shannon and O. P. Heggie are as pleasing aa ever...
...An all-star cast, headed by Pauline Lord, attempts to solve the problem, each in his own very amusing way...
...Vaude Revue" 1* Attraction on Stage There Is entertainment crammed in every minute of the new screen and stage program at the Fog Brooklyn Theatre this week, a delightfully fast moving, humorous, romantic nun, a glamorous stage revue and a number of surprise novelties go to make this one of the best programs of recent weeks...
...As an added feature there is Zane Grey himself in "South Sea Adventures," a sport film which was favorably commented upon by critics, columnists and sports editors...
...Ernest Lawford as the painfully conscientious secretary - annotatoi leaves nothing to be desired...
...Produced by Fanchon & Marco and entitles "Aloha", this show has a cast which includes eight individual acts...
...Joan Bennett at the Fox Brooklyn in "Carelet* lady...
...s The cinema attraction Is "Careless Lady", starring Joan Bennett and John Boles, who are supported by a notable cast which includes Minna Gombell, Weldon Heyburn, Raul Roulien and Nora Lane...
...Two Inter rating Film* On Hipp Screen...
...John Boles sings a number of new songs In this picture...
...The beaming face of Yascha Yushny appears...
...Then a round of madly-gay peasant dances, a screaming burlesque of Cossack soldiers, or a soul-rending scene of the Volga haulers...
...In the cast will be Glenn Anders, Dorothy Stlckney, Margaret Wycherly, John Beal, Maude Allan, Wyrley Birch, Herbert Duffy, Margaret, Hamilton, William Pike, Irene Cattell and Hal K. Dawson...
...Drollery, fantasy, fun, heartaches...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 17
