Hey Nonny Nonny! Gay Gathering of Skits at the Shubert
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"Hey Nonny Nonny!" Gay Gathering of Skits at the Shubert The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley SPRING THE 8IIMMKK "H?Y NONNY NONNYr A rem. 'designed by Raymond Sovey an: Jo Mielsiner....
...Sam Wood directed...
...Week Ends Only," starring Joan Bennett and Ben Lyon and based on Warner Fabian's novel, "Week End Girl," will be the new screen attraction, replacing "Society Girl," the current film...
...In fact in the majority of the new champion's fights you will perceive that he depends almost wholly upon his ability to wear down his opponents at a time when they tire and grow discouraged over their efforts to halt his never ceasing coming-in tactics...
...I have three reasons for objecting to this, even to very good imitations of bad things...
...Rio Rita," a musical extravaganza with a cast of eighty, occupies the Capitol stage and supplements the feature film...
...Will Present New Frolic at Roxy;New Film Feature Because business has shot skyward at the Rosy during the pest five days with Us $1,000,000 stage and screen show, so called, the Friars' Frolic with its star play-era, Including Pat Rooney, Pat Rooney, 3rd, Joe Frisco, Jans and Whalen, Harry Hershfleld, Georgie Price, Joe Howard, Jay C. Plippen and Eddie Miller, will be held over for another- week, beginning today...
...James Cagney's Latest, "Winner Take All," at The Strand Theatre The peace agreement between James Caghey and Warner Bros, can be officially celebrated with the opening of C&gney's latest picture, "Winner Take AH," which is now at the New York Strand...
...Finally, from the standpoint of social value: »there's neither great skill nor great merit in displaying the weak and ridiculous side of a period just past...
...Thus, at worst, he can ascribe the picture of Queen Victoria dodging bird-drippings, to bad taste...
...You have only to recall the first meeting of the two men two years ago to understand what this battle means to both them and the public...
...Dancts conceived anu Staged by Dave Gould...
...There was an opportunity to be cool loat to the chorus girls when "On My Nude Ranch With Me" went censor...
...Guy Klbbe, Clarence Muse and Alan Mowbray...
...Ruth Chatterton at Keith's Richmond Hill Ruth Chatterton is making her screen re-appearance at Keith's Theatre, Richmond Hill, in "The Rich Are Always With Us," her first picture in two years...
...When the unfortunate end came Sharkey was viewed in the act of outboxing Schmeling and it remained an undecided question as to whether the German was employing his usual plodding tactics to come on and win in the latter rounds...
...And the telling Is, on the whole, entertaining, unless perhaps (like the title of one of the show's songs) we are not "easily amused...
...The skit, "Three Little Columnists," for example, with the gatherers of the dirt chanting aa they scrape up the town filth for their columns, is good work...
...The splendid supporting cast Includes George Brent, Adrienne Dore, Bette Davis, John Mil-Jan and John Wray, Max Schmeling to Meet Jack Sharkey Tuesday, For H eavy weight Championship of World The Jack Sharkey and Max Schmeling clash next Tuesday night at the new Madison Square Garden Bowl in Long Inland Ctty may result in one of the most interesting heavyweight, champions ship fights to go down on the records of the ring...
...Lyrics ant music mostly by Max and Nathan iet Lief and Michael H. Cleary At the Shuberl...
...Wednesday, Barbara Stanwyck will be presented In "So Big," Edna Ferber's epic of American womanhood...
...The battle itself, outside Its championship aspects, promisee ring notion such as two big men have shown but seldom," states one astute —and professional — judge of the ring...
...her acting at the Booth last Thursday (well complemented by her assistants) was hardly needed to ensure hei employment on Broadway for some seasons...
...Whatever It is, the show perks us up with one good thing after another, aad in between lets us down...
...There Is, In the revue, a rapid succession of numbers good in themselves: It lacks, to our spirit, a binding note, that quality which carries you along between the best sketches, and holds your expectant...
...But, amusing as her an ticked antique singing may be, anc her more valid work in the radii skit, "The Ever Ready Underweai Hour," I hope she will be cast li a role that calls upon her resource...
...Impersonations, In the concert hall, have given another phase of this merriment...
...Gay Gathering of Skits at the Shubert The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley SPRING THE 8IIMMKK "H?Y NONNY NONNYr A rem...
...Unlike most men of the ring, he has not fought too often and it has taken him eight years to really acquire tbe experience to embrace the qualities of a master ring general...
...perhaps we too often turn away from the values they might teach us...
...Included In the cast are Charles Bickford, Paul Lukas, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Forbes and Leslie Fenton, . After an absence of almost four years, Paul Whiteman returns to the stage of the New York Pars-amount Theatre in *t i_ "The Dark Horse" With Warren William a Hit At the Winter Garden "The Dark Horse" which cinched picture fame for Warren William and brought Guy Kibbee, in the role of the obtuse candidate, to the front as one of the best of character actors, is hitting a fast pace at the Winter Garaen Theatre exceeding the receipts of William's first smash hit "The Mouthpiece...
...Last Thursday at the Booth...
...The battle promises to become better as It goes along...
...and the general effect of the evening Is one of Inconsequential but amusing entertainment MORE LANGUAGE RECITAL by Margaret Hamilton assisted by W. Peter foray and Carroll Hollister...
...Prank Morgan, for all his skill, seems rather out of place, waiting for a proper social drams to frame but true qualities...
...For several seasons, on the Bowery in Greenwich Village, or tubing to Hoboken, sophisticated New Yorkers —so they assured themselves—were laughing at the follies of earlier days...
...Friars Held Over...
...Joan Carter-Waddell, when her voice equals her dancing, wil Ibe worth listening to...
...Miss Stanwyck is excellently supported by George Brent, Bette Davis, Dickie Moore, Hardies Albright and Guy Kibbee...
...Sinners in the Sun" And "So Big" Are RKO Film Features for Week RKO Keith's 81st Street, Jefferson, Flushing and other neighborhood theatres are presenting "Sinners In The Sun," the swift story of the problems, longings and temptations of an attractive working girl, foxturing nob only Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Adrienne Ames and Alison Skip-worth, but eleven of Hollywood's most beautiful girls...
...The German may prove a better man than some of his critics give him credit for and, if he retains the crown he will go down as one^pf the best champions in history, Fwr Max Schmeling is meeting a man who Is today undoubtedly one of the best the division has witnessed insofar as boxing ability hi concerned...
...A number of critics are giving Schmeling an edge in tbe impending battle because of youth, durability, punch and strength...
...Secondly, from the standpoint of art: it's much easier to present a caricature than a character...
...Tallulah Bankhead's Latest at Paramount...
...but "Lady In Waiting" gave Ann Seymour good pickins...
...The Dark Horse" with its popular timeliness and hilarity will remain at that house for an Indefinite stay and a long one if receipts over its first week-end are an indication...
...Madge Evans plays opposite the star—and the excellent supporting cast Includes Una Merkel, Ralph Graves, John Arledge, Frank Albertson, Kane Richmond, Martha Sleeper, Henry Armettn and RocklhYe Fellows...
...There ia always aa attempt, these late May aad early June days, to spring the summer show upon us...
...Her ability to charm', to wear gorgeous clothes, to intrigue with her poise, personality and subtle sex portrayals, is given full play In this picture...
...A character portrayal demands accuracy, If there be a discriminating audience, whether a certain gesture Is a slip, or the actor's Idea of overemphasis...
...Whiteman on Stage An opportunity to exploit her dramatic ability to the fullest is finally given to Tallulah Bankhead In "Thunder Below," coming to the New York and Brooklyn Paramount theatres today...
...R is a timely drama of summer romances and their pitfalls...
...The Friars will offer a complete new version of their Frolic with new material, songs, skit* and novelties...
...On the other hand —as musical comedy la coming to see—there is much adulated and accepted folly In the world around us, that needs the chastening blows of ridicule...
...Perhaps a personality is wanting...
...The direction might have supplied the necessary glue...
...Several of the songs ought to be remembered, especially "For Better or For Worse...
...Based on Thomas Rourke's highly successful novel, the picture tells the story of a beautiful white woman, alone in the tropical wilderness, among many men...
...And there is equally strong satire, and wen driven punch, in 'life la Just a Bowl of'Eugene O'Neill's," which shows the Baduna (Mannona) running the gamut of rape.and rapine and incest and Jung and Freud and O'Neill and what-have-you out af modern psychoanalysis...
...We are all of us too ready to find the manifest flaws in the generation before us...
...There is no doubt that Margaret Hamilton, who has leapt tc fame in "Another Language," la i competent caricaturist...
...Sharkey- enters this fight two years older than the night be fouled Schmeling into tbe title...
...To some measure Schmeling proved this was bis game by his victory over Young Stribling in the final round at Cleveland last Summer...
...This time as a prize-fighter, in this adaptation of Gerald Beaumont's "133 at 3," Cagney plays the part with the old combination of pugnacity and humor which made his "Taxi" and "Blonde Crazy" the successes they are...
...But there Is this to remember, Sharkey is only 29—he will be 30 in October and he has perhaps only really matured during the last year, as he says he "has...
...Supporting Cagney in "Winner Take All" are Marion Nixon, Virginia Bruce, Dickie Moore...
...Huddle" With Ramon Novarro at the Capitol Ramon Novarro portrays an entirely new characterization In his latest starring vehicle for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—"Huddle" which begins a week's engagement at the Capitol Theatre today...
...there is sure success in the caricature of a spinster of 1900, of a volunteer singer at an afternoon tea of thirty years ago, of any ridiculous figure of times Just gone by...
...more fully, In character creatloi on a contemporary theme...
...First, from the standpoint of interest: we've had too many of them...
...comes with a flutter of lively chorus girls in deft swift dancing to let us know that summer is s cumin in, as our ancestors used also to say with song aad dances...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 35
