A Sincere Drama of Love Across the Years at the Selwyn
A Sincere Drama of Love Across the Years at the Selwyn The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley YOUTH'S BRIGHT LEXICON ¦ mA THOUSAND SUMMERS." A new romantic flay by Merrill Rogers. With...
...And In the big moment, when hearts and bodies are attuned in sweet desire, she turns, she runs, away...
...And after she had won the beautycontest (song supplied by Noel Coward...
...Sheila calls to him too late...
...Sheila has, In an amusing yet touching scene, promised Neil's aunt that through her no harm will come to him...
...the boy ls quite convincing...
...After all, what Is a woman to do...
...On the boy's side is the problem of weakening youth and bright desire...
...we cannot quite feel whether it Is the woman's story, or the boy's, that is uppermost in the playwright's mind...
...Women capitalized chastity, and got us to subscribe for the shares...
...known as a "nut" theatre for outstanding continental screen attractions, adopts a new summer policy of limited engagements and exclusive New York showings with tbe current offering of "Iiebe 1st Llebe" or "Love is Love...
...Symphony of Six Million" to Run at " R. K, O. Houses RKO Keith's 68th and 81st Street Theatres are presenting "Symphony of Six Million," Fanny Hurst's story taken from the turbulent soul of our great city, told as only she can tell it and brought to life by such sterling screen artists as Irene Dunne, Rlcardo Cortex, Anna Appel, Gregory Ratoff and Lita Chevret This ls the picture's first showing away from the Times Square section, where it played extended engagements at the Gaiety and Mayfalr Theatres...
...The talking film may cost leu...
...fire tempers steel...
...Back in Paris in 1926, he became identified with a group of young artists, known as the "advance guard," who were Interested in modern art in general and that of the cinema in particular...
...Among the foreign hits that will come to this intimate playhouse during tbe next three months are the German films, "Die Blumenfrau von Undenau" ("The Flower Lady from Undenau"), "Yorck" and a Lilian Harvey release, and the French productions, "David Colder," "Le Bal" and "Lea Cinq Gentlemen Maudlts" (Five Accursed Men...
...With Jane Cowl...
...Now the bottom's out of the market...
...and any lapses In the portrait of the woman are well covered by Jane Cowl...
...FAITHFULNESS IN FASHION "CYNARA...
...After the prologue, the play advances with light-footed fancy, delicately tracing the primrose way—to the everlasting bonfire...
...It's got to be because you want me...
...born in Paris, he had to go to school and had to study his three R's together with his music, as most good or bad little boys do, and hated it with the best of them...
...In the talkies, on the other hand, the basic value must be achieved through the action of the picture in itself," Ills, third audible aim, "A Noils La liberte," has just finished a sensational 15-week run at the Rialto Theatre in London, and ia being claimed as one of the most brilliant films of the year In Berlin...
...The audible film must be even further away from the stage than the silent film...
...You understand...
...The Little Carnegie Announces Iff New Summer Policy The Little Carnegie Playhouse, loss...
...Fresh from her kisses, roused but unsatisfied, Nell walks out with the coarse and bold kitchen avench, and from her learns that love Is lust and lust is bestial, beastly...
...Thus he produced & number of silent pictures, like "The Phantom of Moulin Rouge," "The Imaginary Voyage," "The Italian Straw Hat," "Entr'act" and others...
...negie for only two weeks and all attractions shown will not appear elsewhere In New York this season...
...Samuel French...
...Finally, with the advent of the talking picture in France, in 1930, the young director saw his real chance...
...During the summer months, all pictures will play the Little Car...
...tz, Louise Prussing, Anna Kostant, Martin Wolfson, Constance McKay, etc., remains the same...
...Franckot Trgne and Osgood Perkins...
...The motion picture must at all cost remain a visual art, and to bring theatrical dialogue to the film would hopelessly ruin all that I hope to achieve...
...It's paid them well enough, too...
...But the drama's dose is not an unpleasant one...
...I don't say it's easy for you to forget—I don't say it's possible—but If you can't, it isn't any good to me...
...yet all the time Dowson's words are true: "I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, In my fashion...
...But Cynara recognizes that fatlhfulness has its degrees...
...His wife takes his hand In understanding, as the curtain falls on a sensitive and well-wrought play...
...the combination of the spoken part and the technique of the film created new possibilities which fascinated him...
...And, out of his enthusiasm and his Inborn skill, he created the three French masterpieces of the audible film "Sous Lesb Toits ds Paris," "Le Million" and "A Nous La Liberte," all of which have become international sensations...
...If you come, It must be because—well, not because I want you...
...than the silent film If one lets the actor talk ad Infinitum," Clair said in a recent interview...
...damage has been done her best efforts and sweetest gift through years may not undo...
...The supporting cast including Jennie Moscow...
...For Doris grows too fond of the gentleman, and prefers death to desertion...
...After all, what Is a woman to do?' It does seem ,ln truth, that Sheila would have been more like herself had she yielded to her de/sire and to the youth...
...Is It not better, she feels, for a sensitive lad's first taste of love to come from a sensitive fine woman...
...1 can't go on always being sorry, feeling there's something I ought to be ashamed of...
...More often they keep such remarks back, for "Monogamy is the woman's invention...
...it tells the tale of a man who, loving his wife deeply, is won by the woman who wants him...
...The minor figures in the play, the uncle and aunt from the States, are engagingly real...
...and the occasional slowness of tbe dialogue is more than balanced by tbe rich charm of Jane Cowl as the no longer wholly gay bird, tbe sincere and earnest power of young Franchat Tone as the virgin youth, aad the easy yet understanding breezlness of Osgood Perkins (who has too small a part...
...Wednesday these two popular mid-town playhouses ,introduce Kay Francis in her first starring role, "Man Wanted...
...Cynara" is a sensible play about intelligent, well - meaning men and women...
...Two themes are developed as the plot of the play runs on, producing a slight shifting of interest...
...But after all, it is none of our affair...
...Both women interpret the phrase as meaning Sheila will not give herself to Neil...
...In the end—after what may have been a fatal hesitation—she goes forth to Paris to meet her Neil, who kneels now in adoration of her superior wisdom, charm, savolr falre, but who will inevitably recoil one day from her first greying hairs...
...Disaster follows, and a stir that tests their lives...
...Women have a way of saving— at indiscreet moments,, and in condemnatory tone—that a woman can get any man she really wants...
...Her misgivings are justified...
...And don't come with me because you're sorry for me—that's no good to me any more...
...At the Selwyn...
...Men don't really believe in it...
...After graduation he became a newspaper man, was more or less successful and loafed all over Europe to bis heart's content During this period he wrote and published a number of books, one of which "Adams,'' a novel with Charlie Chaplin as Its central character, achieved a limited measure of success...
...her husband's frankness, that at first seems brutal, ia finally disarming...
...A Nous La Liberte," a social satire, is now in the third week of its engagement at she Europe Theatre...
...Otto Kruger Replaces Paul Muni as Star in "Counsellor-at-Law" Otto Kruger, who has been playing the role of George Simon in the Chicago company of "Counsellor-at-Law," opened in that same leading part last Monday at the Plymouth Theatre, replacing Paul Mum, who has been featured ' in this comedy for the eight months of its successful run...
...There ls, for her, the familiar fate of an aging woman who loves a lad—she thirtysix, be scarce of age: and Sheila quotes "Candida" to remind the boy that when she is three-score he will be something or other much lee...
...Should she have respected his aunt .and withheld...
...This policy is made possible through arrangements recently secured with the leading producers of France and Germany, whereby a great number of excellent films are available for current release...
...Not to mention her own desire...
...Concerning Trance'* Leading Director, Rene Clair, Whose Latest Film, "A Nous La Liberte," Has Been Widely Acclaimed hy the Press Rene Clair, the brilliant French director of "A Nous La Liberte," which is now being shown at the Europe Theatre for an extended run, is only SO years of age, a surprising fact, if one takes into consideration that his fame is truly international...
...Clair's early life was rather uneventful...
...By H. M. Harwood and R. Core Browne...
...On the stage everything we learn about the plot and counterplot Is contained In what the actors say...
...But this, while it Is done, spells disaster...
...Tbe lines from Swinburne's "Itylus," ia tbe program, beginning •'Swallow, my sister, oh sister swallow," seem to nave little connection with this play—nave that they give Its title, unless they imply that we also are asked to swallow...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 23
