5 Year Plan' Moves to Pop. Priced Cameo
STAGE 5 Year Plan' Moves to Pop. Priced Cameo Von Sternberg's Long Awaited Production of Dreiser's **An American Tragedy***?Md To Be a Screen Masterpiece, With SylviayKdney, Phillips Holmes and...
...Ruddigore" Next in Gilbert and Sullivan Series at Erlanger's "Ruddigore," or "The Witche's Curse," eighth in the series of Gilbert and Sullivan operas at Erlanger's Theatre, win be presented by the Civic Light Opera Company next Monday night It is next to the last production in this summer comic opera season, a reproduction of "The Mikado" being scheduled to succeed it on Monday, August 24...
...Das Lied vom Vater" as sung by Irene Eisinger, however, is running it a close second...
...Greta Nissen, a Swedish dancer and sweetheart of Halliday...
...Gilbert had satirized all the prevailing fads of his day, including the craze things Japanese, which resulted In "The Mikado," and the absurdly aesthetic madness in "Patience," he turned to the one thing which, to his mind, needed reform, and that was the impossible dramas, with their flowery speeches and situations and laughable characters...
...The Silent Witness" At the Winter Garden Due for Long Run Sensational business has been attracted by "The Star Witness" at the Winter Garden...
...Week-end attendance at "The Immortal Vagabond," the Ufa English musical love-drama of Vienna and the Tyrol, has caused a holdover of the picture for a second week at the Warner Theatre...
...Carl Miller, Spencer Charters, Pumell Pratt and Stanley Fields head the cast of featured players...
...Miss Sidney was selected by Van Sternberg to play the role of Roberta Aid en in "An American Tragedy," Miss Sidney came to the screen following the success on the New York stage in Theatre Guild productions end in the Broadway production of "Bad Girl...
...Next to writing and acting for the theatre, Coward loves to travel...
...Marry Wives" was directed by Gesa van Bolvary, with the principal roles played by Willy Forst Lee Parry, Paul HoerUger, Irene Eisinger and Cordy MWowitsch...
...Mary Brian, last #¦ way in "The ProsnH tured in "The RwJM is now at the Rer9 The story of ts*a with a penchant firm but with an avetslfl "scorched...
...Theatres The screen version of Mark Twain's famous masterpiece of boyhood, "Huckleberry Finn," with the same cast which depicted "Tom Sawyer," win be the new attraction at the New York and Brooklyn Paramount Theatres starting today...
...Jack Colby aad Patricia Murry star in the "Petite Revue...
...15 "Wharf Nigger," a play by Paul Peters aimed against Southern race prejudice, which is now in rehearsal at the Provincetown Playhouse,wUl open on September 16...
...NaturaUy, most dramatists are, but Coward manages to catch the philosophy, perspectives, habits and modes of the creatures called homo sapiens" as wen...
...Numerous funny and dramatic situations arise from the holding as material witnesses, the members of a whoopee party held in the sample room, with models and such other pretty girls as were attracted by the lure of a "Large Evening...
...He prefers, therefore, to be out of reach many months of the year, seldom leaving a forwarding address...
...Priced Cameo Von Sternberg's Long Awaited Production of Dreiser's **An American Tragedy***?Md To Be a Screen Masterpiece, With SylviayKdney, Phillips Holmes and Entire Cast at Their Best The world pieralere of Panmount's "An American Tragedy" at the Criterion theatre last Wednesday evening, brought to a climax the wave of speculation which began are years ago...
...Jean Hersholt, her father and an old German lens grinder making bis first luxury trip abroad...
...plays...
...LTLes Bdasco Theatre Katharine Cornell has leased the ielasco Theatre from September XI next fer a term of years in association with her husband, Guthrie McClintic This lease represents her second step aa actormanager, her first being the production of "The Barrets of Wimpole Street...
...When Mr...
...Gustavo Frohlich, of "Metropolis" fame, and Liane Haid, the screen sweetheart of Europe, play the leading roles in this charming story of a musical genius who wins renown but loses love in his climb to fame...
...Helen Petch, Chrissie Daley, Louis and Cherie and the Sunkist Beau"The Immortal Vagabond'' Held Over At the Warner Then...
...Edmund Lowe, who heads the cast has the role of "Monty Greer," a gambler anxiously sought by the district attorney as star Witness in a graft trial...
...Merit Prevoe;a...
...Mail" is being shown as an added attraction at the RKO Cameo with "The Five-Year Plan...
...It is the story of a middle-aged, settled-down business man who goes on the loose, doffs his all-wood business suit for aa all-broadcloth and satin swallow tan, throws away his dyspepsia ¦ tablets for champagne end forgets business reports for racetrack results...
...Performances are continuous and at popular prices for the first time on Broadway...
...Price Run At R.K.O...
...Others in the cast include Lucien Littlefield...
...Transatlantic" on Screen of Fox B'klyn -On Stage Is Fanchon And Marco's Revue The Fox Brooklyn Theatre's program this week consists of the first of the season's new screen products, ''Transatlantic...
...This week-end it will have reached its 1,860th performance...
...Within half an hour after the doors opened Tuesday for the first full day's showing of the picture, the house had been completely sold out and It was decided that beginning Wednesday, doors of the Winter Garden would be opened at 10 a. m. aad shows would be continued until 1:30 a. m. to accommodate the crowds...
...Transatlantic" deals t with the tangled lives of a dozen or so persons aboard a de luxe liner Europe-bound...
...Evelyn Brent, Frank Aibertson, Constance Cummings, Frank McHugh...
...Wharf Nigger," Paul Peters' Play About Race Prejudice, Due Sept...
...Since then his rise has been rapid, running through featured and leading roles to stardom, embracing a group of outstanding productions, including "Pointed Heels," "Only the Brave," "The Devil's Holiday," "Her Man* "Stolen Heaven," and "Laughter...
...Reams upon reams have been written upon the important subject of Russia's rapid growth, bat no comprehensive version of the country's actual development had heretofore been filmed...
...Gifted with a turn fer saying Jever aad often devastating truths a a single line, young Noel Coward has bean more than ordinarJy successful as a playwright Coward deals in fluff, but he is a master craftsman in his special line...
...Others who become involved aboard the 8. S. Transatlantic are Lois Mo ran as "Judy Kramer...
...The F lee-Year Plan9' Baa ins Pop...
...Commencing Friday, August 14, win be "Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour...
...Noel Coward Builds A Play en line* One of the outstanding geniuses of the theatre, Noel Coward, whose Jllartous comedy of married life, ¦Private Jives," is currently play, .ng at the Times Square Theatre rrith Madge Kennedy and Otto I.-jger sharing stellar honors, is a keen student of human nature...
...Paul Sloane wielded the megaphone, the story bein an original by Humphrey Pearson...
...The Soviet five-year plan embraces a period from 1928 to 1988, aad now, with the half-way mark passed, comes this authentic version of its r -hievements to date...
...John Halliday, an absconding banker...
...When in March of this year Paramount executives took the book In hand and announced that Josef Von Sternberg would direct, and that Phillips Besmes would have the coveted role of Clyde Griffiths, many a hope and ambition crashed...
...sharecropper cases...
...Mary Brian in 4 Runaround...
...Mickey also introduces on the stage his comical Barnyard Gang and Silly Symphony Ballet Augmenting the novelty entertainment are the principal performers — the Three Rolling Stones, Toots Noveile...
...the Allison Sisters, three peppy girls furnish thrills aplenty on the trapeze and Al Nord with Jeanie offer a com* edy skit "Stop Crying'' to complete the Hippodrome's stage Show...
...a new master of ceremonies, Phil Lampkin, and the personal appearance of Mickey Mouse in Fanchon and Marco's stage show...
...It is an obvious burlesque of the old Surrey-side melodramas with their bad baronets, village maidens, gallant rescuers in impossible situations and so forth...
...The Fanchon and Marco stage show, ".Mickey Mouse" idea marks the first personal appearance of Walt Disney's beloved animated cartoon character...
...I%a graphic and vivid fashion "The Five-Year Plan" depicts the creation of a new Russia, showing a primarily agrarian country being transformed into a land of gigantic steel mills, of super power plants and vast agricultural enterprises...
...Fift Dor-ay, who comes into this business man's life Just when he is doing his daily dozen in his nightshirt romps through the pic' ture with Rogers, to the end that Rogers' two sons, who themselves have been pursuing the high sad modern life, awaken and address themselves to the task of rescuing their father from the temptations and pitfalls of the world...
...His line in "Private Lives"— "women should be struck like gongs—on the hour"—is an example of bis wit for in one brief sentence has he summarised man's attitude with regard to the unreasonableness of woman generally...
...The Merry Wives of Vienna," Delights and Conduct at the Little Carnegie Playhouse For its fifth successive week (and still playing to excellent business) "Die Lustlgen Weiber von Wien" or Th Merry Wives of Vienna" wUl be the attraction at Leo Brecher's Uttle Carnegie Playhouse on West 57 th Street Originally scheduled for but a three or four weeks* engagement this Viennese operetta with music by the composer of "Two Hearts" has so captivated Uttle Carnegie's audiences that It win be held indefinitely at the Playhouse...
...In 1928, when the story was purchased for the During this time, many a star and many a director looked longingly at the assignment, which grew to be considered the plum of picture achievement...
...Peters gathered the material for his play while he was at work as a stevedore is New Orleans...
...If he hadn't represented a New York underwear house, he would not have found htm self in a jam when the detectives and police broke into his hotel showrooms after an accidental shooting...
...This is always the* commercial traveler's bad fortune—unless, of course, he's selling nuts and bolts or roofing material...
...From the first showing of the feature until closing time Monday night standees were lined up three deep in the rear of the orchestra and the- mezzanine...
...Bud Harrison, and Pinky Elmo roll dice as only darkies can...
...Since Miss Cornell has always enjoyed playing a! the Empire, she will continue to present "The Barrets of Wimpole Street" there throughout its run, but her subsequent productions win be at the Belasco...
...Having appeared in "City Streets," and "Confessions of a Co-ed," she faces stardom, at the age of 21...
...Seriousness is not a part of his makeup but when be touches on serious things 'they emerge scintillating satiric shafts of wisdom...
...Private Lives" was written on a Jaunt to the Orient Travel affords him the leisure so necessary to the penning of Ins...
...The Belasco win open early in October when Mr...
...Cameo An actual photographic record of the vital changes which are taking, place in the Soviet Union today, a subject that is...
...When you sell milady's intimate wearing apparel there is always the chance that some one might misunderstand the various pieces of delicate clothing you have draped on live models in your sample room...
...For the cast'of supporting players for this Paramount production...
...Frances Dee, another rising Paramount player, plays the role of Sandra Fmchley, the glamorous daughter of wealth and society whose charms dazzle the susceptsble youth and cause him to plot the death of Roberta the girl who loves him...
...Donald DUlaway, Terrence Ray and Rosalie Roy...
...A Holy Terror" on 'Hip' Screen—Jed Dooley And Other Vaude Acts — Complete Big Bill The show is the thing at the Hippodrome this week with "A Holy Terror" the screen romance of a rough riding Broadwayite and a double headline vaudeville bUl of eight acta George O'Brien, Sally Eilers, Rita La Roy, James Kirkwood, Humphrey Bogart, Stanley Fields aad Robert Warwick are featured in this star spangled picture...
...The combination of excellent reviews and the tremendous timeliness of "The Star Witness" seem to indicate a long run for "The Qfa — Wifnaa- " Evelyn Brent and Big Cast in " Traveling Husbands" at May fair And Albee Theatres Lingerie, negligees and thingamajigs got him into trouble—as they usually do...
...Walter Jennie r presents the wonder seal "Buddy...
...Life in a metropolis is exacting, Social eMigattons warn rally cut in one's time and the telephone, to a busy man, has become an Intolerable institution...
...An innovation in the presentation of a foreign language film for American audiences is promised by the management The experiment wil have its initial tryout with "Zwei Herzen...
...The production was adapted for the screen by Samuel Hoffenstein, former Broadway theatrical press agent end author of best selling poetry...
...Holmes made his debet in films two years ago, when, a student at Princeton, be was selected by Frank Turtle for a role in "Varsity...
...Soviet Russia has developed a new idea in photography which they have used successfully in their latest opus, aa animated cartoon with sound and music entitled "MaiL "The distinguishing feature of this new type of cartoon is that poster drawing is the medium, the figures being drawn in light aad shadow, rather than in the line drawings common to "Micky Mouse" and other American cartoons...
...Jed Dooley, the cameo comic with his pretty companion Andres Evans shares headline honors with Mae Usher, the singing character comedienne...
...Huckleberry Finn" At Para...
...Myrna Loy, his wife...
...and Earle Foxe, who has designs on Halliday's stolen millions...
...Hugh Herbert, in the role of a wise-cracking Jovially cynical, reassuringly good-natured Knight of the Sample Case, found himself in such a predicament in Radio Pictures' comedy-drama "Traveling Husbands" which opens today at both the Mayfair and RKO Albee Theatres...
...Ruddigore" is termed as "super, natural" opera, and tells the story of a hereditary title-holder who has to commit a crime every day owing to a curse his ancestor incurred through burning a witch...
...Van Sternberg has turned to stage and screen alike to flu his difficult roles...
...McClintic presents Francine Larrimore in "Brief Moment" by' Samuel N. Behrman...
...being widely discussed in ail prominent newspapers of the country, is now playing at the RKO Cameo' Theatre with the Amktao presentation of "The Five-Year Plan: Russia's Remaking," a fun-length feature film...
...That Stolz'a tunes have much to do with the popularity of this German importation is indicated by an announcement that already more than two thousand records and copies of Willy Font's hit song, 'Teh lieb' nur Eine," have been sold in the lobby of the theatre...
...Tte ajfl been classed as audi comedies of tht Sjfl Also in tht eetjl Kerr, well known fsl star...
...Included in the imposing group of names are Irving Pichel, fresh from triumphs in "Murder by the Clock" and "The Right to Love," Frederick Burton, Claire McDowell, Wallace Middleton, Vivian Winston, Emmet Corrigan, Lucille LaVerne, Aliens Judge and Arnold Korff...
...Ruddigore" was the result "Zwei Herzen im DreU viertel Takt" Reaches 1850th Performance The phenomenal run of the Viennese screen operetta, "Zwei Herzen im Dreiviertel Takt" now current at the Europe Theatre, has the distinction of having surpassed all records for the continuous run of a stage or screen play for the number of performances since the five-year record set by "Abie's Irish Rose...
...This is the talking picture version of a moat sensational play...
...At the 8th Street Playhouse Revival showing of "White Cargo" will be presented at the Eighth Street Playhouse for one week commencing today...
...Will Rogers in "Young As You Feel" at Roxy Current at the Roxy Is WUl Rogers' latest "Young As You Feel," converted from George Ade's 'Father and the Boys...
...Yale University Glee Club contributes Eight Sons of Eli to the program...
...The play deals with the life of ¦ colored dock workers to New Orleans aad ends in stirring scenes which bear striking similarity to the circumstances of the Scottoboro I and Camp HOI Ala...
Vol. 13 • August 1931 • No. 6
