Women and Horses-Men Must Ride! Comedy at the Cort
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Women and Horses-Men Must Ride! Comedy at the Cort The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley BRIDAL WWBSUMACSUi 'BRIDAL WISE." A new comedy by Albert Hacked and Fran-Ctt Goodrich at Ike...
...Counting snow, high winds, rainy days and accidents, Arthur Holden averages 312 high dives per season of 20 weeks...
...Especially is this true of Rose Franken, the playwright...
...and another "Glory...
...The play's triumph is not only bringing him a handsome financial reward, but he is now established as a first-line producer and he plans to present a number of new plays in the fall...
...and critics through the years have been troubled by the play...
...The intelligence of the production, too, might have been stirred to greater life by more Imaginative directing...
...as it is, the ensemble suffers and grows sharp at fault, redeemed by the rich playing of the many stars, each in the separate action of the part...
...and s most horsey one sets boldly upon him...
...Scribnem published a novel by her two years ago, called "Pattern," and numerous of her stories have appeared in the magazines...
...Dooley, Jr.," which was given this winter in New York and other cities by the Children's Theatre...
...She is not without background as a writer, but this Is her first appearance as author of a Broadway play...
...Arthur dives twice daily and three times per day over the weeks ends and on holidays...
...Young Fairbanks la cast as a wise-cracking newspaper man who writes of the doings, the love affairs, the expectations and the quarrels of Broadway's great and near' great...
...He has not learned how to ride...
...Based on the stage play of the same name, "Two Seconds" is the story of a man's thoughts during the last two seconds of his life when all the events which have formed his career flash before him...
...For Shakespeare, we are told, not only writes (as always) In contemporary mood...
...Moreover, in the discussions of the Trojans, the dramatist several times points out the little part reason and Justice play la the determination of war...
...It was intelligent, for example, to set tbe actors in English garb, instead of attempting Trojan and Grecian costumes, which would have been quite out of keeping with the language...
...Rian James' "Love Is A Racket" at Strand About and by a~\olumnlst is "Love Is A Racket," with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., at the New York Strand...
...A Nous La Liberie" Stays On at the Europa "A Nous La Liberte," Rene Clair's world-acclaimed social film satire, is to continue at the Europe, where It is now in the fourth week of its engagement...
...Others in the case are Preston Foster, Vivl-enne Osborne, J. Carroll Nalsh, Gladys Lloyd and Walter Walker...
...and the enkindled people raise their swords...
...It Is unfortunate that, in shaping the play to our evening's time, much of the poetry, and of the incidental wise comment on life, had to be sloughed...
...The Players have clothed it in one of their usual all-star casts, and given it intelligent presentation...
...Let one fool cry "Honor...
...yourself...
...Hugo Hiesenfeld...
...Society Girl," with James Dunn, Peggy Shannon and Spencer Tracy will be the screen feature...
...and sets again upon their single ways the woman who is more fit for colts than sons, snd the lawyer who was born to be a bachelor...
...No Bernard Shaw could be more modern in stripping the dignity, the glamor of legend and the projected loom of greatness in the past, from this parcel of cowards, envious rascals, and self-centered fools, who in Homer and the other bearers of the tale are the wise and the brave and the good of far antiquity...
...Four shows will be given daily and there will be no advance in tbe price scale, which was lowered three weeks ago as a new summer policy...
...Among the well known performers who will appear in person at the Roxy as members of the Frolic are Joe Frisco, Pat Rooney and Pat Rooney, 3rd, Jacy C. Flippen, Jans and Whalen, Georgia Price, Harry Hershfleld, Joe Howard, Buddy Doyle, the Caites Brothers, Horton Spurr, Eddie Miller, the Three Samuels Brothers, Vincent O'Donnell, Warren Jackson, Eddie Harrison, Lou Archer, Sammy Weston and Adam Dl Janoro...
...nothing else holds fashion...
...So that on the night of the 16th he will make his 5,000th...
...How can they tell Peter they have parted...
...though after the first act the clever repartee more often takes on the color of wit, and pricks more deeply Into our human Foibles...
...With Fairbanks in "Love Is A Racket" are Lee Tracy, Ann Dvorak, Frances Dee, Lyle Talbot, Warren Hymer, Andre Luguet, Cecil Cunningham and John Marston...
...A SHAKESPEARE PREMIERE "TROILUS^ND CRESSIDA," by William Shakespeare...
...Theatre Ruth Chatterton'a newest screen success, 'The Rich Are Always With Us" begins a four day engagement at the Keith 81st Street Theatre, today...
...No such a thing at all...
...In the train of Its triumph there have also risen to heights of glory an entirely new author, an entirely new producer, and several new players who, though quite obscure before the play opened, are now people who must be given serious attention as being important personages in the American theatre...
...The pun In the title of thie play about wedding* and horses sets the tune for its dialogue...
...Comedy at the Cort The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley BRIDAL WWBSUMACSUi 'BRIDAL WISE...
...On the night of June 15th, over a* span of 16 years, Arthur will have totaled 4,909 dives of 100 feet each...
...Shakespeare might have been writing that today...
...A new comedy by Albert Hacked and Fran-Ctt Goodrich at Ike Cort...
...Another Language" Its Distinguished Author and Producer • m ¦ mi ii I Probably no theatrical event of recent years has brought with it so many and so emphatic successes as the overwhelming triumph of the new play called "Another Language," now at the Booth Theatre...
...added attraction and will not effect the theatre's usual continuous show procedure...
...Arthur is the high diver over at Palisades Amusement Park...
...Ruth Chatterton at RKO 81st St...
...With only concert-bureau experience, he had the audacity to bring forth "Another Language" after almost every other manager in New York had turned it down, and to bring it forth late in the spring, too...
...Her husband (James Rennie) is therefore thrown upon tbe club where he spends the six weeks of her illness...
...He is the producer of the play...
...George Brent, the young Irishman who is rapidly coming to the fore as a leading man plays opposite the celebrated stage star...
...Franken immediately takes rank among the Important playwrights of America...
...One of them, Pandarus, Is himself a part of that scurrilous world —as his name came to indicate— a go-between In the traffic of love...
...The husband, though be gives up horses, has learned how to ride...
...in it appear two of his sharpest rallera on the world...
...And while it is far from Shakespeare's purpose to write a document of social reform, there is straight mention of the "ignorance and greed" that wrap men in all this muddle...
...And of course, though the bed-room complications are amusing and deftly played, it is the boy who reunites the couple that should never have been started...
...Others of importance in the cast are Bette Davis, John Miljan, Robert Warwick, John Wray and Adrienne Dore...
...Slg-mund Franken, a well known New York oral surgeon, and she Is the mother of three children, aged three, seven and thirteen...
...Ttco Seconds'* at the Brooklyn Strand "Two Seconds," starring Edward G. Robinson, Is now at the Brooklyn Strand...
...In truth, Peter (Jackie Kelk) interferes with, more than this element of the plot...
...She is in private life the wife of Dr...
...Clear those away, shave somehow off the incentive to the one, and give opportnulty to grow out of the darkness of the other, and the world will not deserve the sorry picture this play affords...
...This is one of the reasons the drama Is difficult, no doubt...
...Along with Mrs...
...It Shows Shakespeare in a period of disillusion...
...Franken, Arthur J. Beckhard has also attained theatrical prominence with the success of "Another Language...
...The Frolic Is an...
...Figure it out for...
...Alack and alas, the couple have a son, who interferes with their plans for—at least makes It hard for them to talk about—a divorce...
...Thersltes looks also upon the deeds of these men, and he-sums them up in no less trenchant phrase: "Still wans and lechery...
...for be and his darkle pal, Sam, are true boy, and their antics and Peter's reactions to school snd to grown-up friends of the family touch the chords of everyone who has been a parent or a guest where children are...
...5,000 times 100 feet makes how many miles...
...The other, Thersltes (and in this part Otis Skinner shone clearly forth, more directly watches and comments upon the bestial business that we call living...
...but had In mind definite persons of his own dsy, as counterparts for the legendary figures of Hector, AJax, Achilles, and the rest...
...Now as the author of one of the biggest "smash hits" on Broadway, Mrs...
...We owe thanks to The Players for this unique opportunity to see Shakespeare's least performed play...
...Madge Kennedy plays a devoted Wife, but the lady has tbe whoop-tag cough...
...Arthur IIolden Takes His 5,000th Dive When one says that Arthur Holden will take his 5,000 dive on June 16th, one might get the Idea that friend Arthur is a prohibition agent...
...He looks Upon the great heroes of antiquity, whose storied deeds are models for the years, and he sums up these towering figures: "All Incontinent varlets'—and of a truth, Shakespeare shows them so...
...Film Feature Is "Society Girl" The Friars' Frolic has been engaged hi Its entirety by the Roxy Theatre and will be presented from the stage beginning today, in addition to the regular Roxy company, including the ballet, 32 Roxyettes and the Roxy Theatre Symphony conducted by Dr...
...Friars' Frolic at the Roxy...
...We must, moreover, thank The Players for having brought to attention again ,and to production, this mordant vision of a shabby world...
...She has written two other plays — one called "Fortnight," which was presented last year by a summer theatre In Greenwich, Conn., and a play for children called "Mr...
...In short, this aspect of the play is truer than the play...
...Presented for the first time on Broadway by The Players (Eleventh Annual Revival) at the Broadway...
...Troilus and Cressida," save for a production by the Yale Dramatic Association, has never before been presented in America...
...For this is one of the better examples of that type known (usually without any great presumption of merit) aa the summer play...
...A retired yet young man, be is naturally the game of the ladies thereabout...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 24
