Earl Carroll Opens New Era in World of Thea
Earl Carroll Opens New Era in World of Thea Earl Carroll Sets a New Standard for Revue Production with the Auspicious Opening of His Beautiful New Theatre on August 27—The Distinguished...
...I t Is based oa the poem which tells of the epic death oi thirteen Prussian Grenadiers, the last surviving members of a company, who detain Napoleons army while their comrades cross the river and escape...
...The inscription over the stage ioor, "Through This Portal Pass he Most Beautiful Girls in the Vorld," seems to have been an inplration to all concerned in the trncture...
...In other words, sell HaSeluiiah, don't give it away...
...The decorations are the first modern designs employed In a theatre...
...This prevents distracting noises entering the auditorium from late arrivals...
...The luxuries and comforts back stage sound more like the dreamngs of a press agent than really...
...Berlin and Moss Hart, the young co-author of "Once in a Lifetime," are hard at work on a musical, as yet untitled, which will in all likelihood be ready for a Broadway showing some time In September...
...Wklyn-On the Stage i An Up to Minute Revw Chief among the many items o interest an the Foot Brooklyn Thee tre's bOi of entertainment thi week is Will Rogers in a net screen farce, "Young- A s You FeeL The nun » adapted from Georg Ade's stage play, "Father and th Boys" and presents the famous wi in the role of a modem bis...
...Shoot the Works'* Quartet on Air Lee Brody, appearing in Heywood Broun's new revue, "Shoot the Works," at the George M. Cohan Theatre, enlisted Bud Carpenter, Jack Irwin and John McAvoy, chorus men of the show, to form a mixed quartette...
...All parts :-f the stage may be lowered or elevated...
...The principal role will be played by Paul Kelly and Sylvia Field...
...In Which Constance Bennett Is Starred Constance Bennett the glamorous screen heroine of a dozen popular film successes, returns to the Broadway screen today when "Bought," m which she is...
...But they are actually in evidence...
...One of the scenes for the lew anities, made of Chromium, weighs five and a half tons...
...Roy Sedley, ' ut" comic of musical comedy repute and Pat Henrung, the agile laugh-maker, keep the audience merry with their slever capers...
...The new Fanchon at Marco stag...
...The Hollywood Theatre Reopens with "Bought...
...In trying to start a 'hew era In the theatre Mr...
...Car•oil dictated the disposition of all ipace...
...There will also be lights on the backs of seats that patrons may read their programs in dark scenes...
...He has also acquired the most complete production center In the world...
...Men Are Like That" Adapted from Pop...
...No period is followed...
...green, blue or white, or any combination of these colors...
...The players have i gymnasium, plenty of shower laths, telephones to all rooms and studios, a practice room for amotions dancers, a long mirror room 'or the "last look," stage dressng rooms for quick changes, with i Green Room for the principals md an Orchid Room for the chorta...
...The public had its first chance to hear Miss Brody's quartette over Station WABC at 6 last Monday Sam Harris, Noted Producer of Hit Plays, Announces His Plans For the Coming Season to a highly interesting, varied and busy season for Sam H. Harris next fall, what with two musicals, a melodrama, a comedyva serious drama and a mystery play already in the offing...
...Carroll has accomplished the task of creating the largest legitimate playhouse in the worjd...
...Barbara Stanwyck at May fair in "Miracle Woman** Strong Film of Regeneration "Tou're not a hypocrite if you admit it.'" aaya Sam Hardy in the role of Homeby to Barbara Stanwyck aa Florence Fallon In "The Miracle Woman," now at the RKOMayfair theatre...
...Carroll will, with his innovations, set a new standard tor revue production...
...The stage hands have a card •oom in modern decorations...
...Laura La Plante and John Wayne are featured, with June Clyde, Forrest Stanley, Nena Quartsro and Hugh Cummings "in supporting roles...
...It Is reported to be a scathing indictment of racketeering and the system which permits It to flourish and will undoubtedly cause much comment...
...The structure contains more innovations than could be listed in a full newspaper page...
...Hal Haig "Former Olympic Champion;'' Francis, "Prima Donna Petite;' Sunny ac Vina Jean Rooney...
...Harris is "Of Thee I Sing" which will have a book by George S. Kaufman, music by George Gershwin and lyrics by I ra Gershwin...
...Scheduled to reach Broadway, under the management of Sam H. Harris, on Labor Day is the latest play from the pen of the prolific Owen Davis called "Just to Remind You...
...starred, reopens the palatial* Hollywood Theatre...
...There Is not a light fixture in the auditorium...
...A minister, deposed by his congregation because he was getting too old, he has died of disappointment...
...cher, well known N ew York exblbitor and director of the Little Carnegie Playhouse, states that while theatre activities in the German capital are at something of a standstill at the moment, due to the season, most of the studios there are humming with production and that the quality of pictures already...
...Caligari," "The Man Who Laughs" and "The Last Performance...
...Thirteen Men and a Girl" is I Ufa German production with English dialogue...
...completed for the new season is excellent...
...The >rchestra has a club room, and also he auditorium attaches...
...Fill Dorsay is his chosen com panion in the hilarious escapade, in which Rogers definitely prove to his sons that a man is never b old to enjoy himself and that agi is merely a matter of how on feels...
...All lights...
...Florence is smarting from an injustice to her father and grieving over his death...
...The disappearing orchestra, an Earl Carroll invention when he built his former theatre which wai demolished to make room for the new one, has been improved upon...
...Vaudeville BUI The great Huber heads the Hippodrome's eight act vaudeville bill of funsters and pretty girls in conjunction with the feature picture presentation...
...Archie Mayo directed...
...Its beauty and its comileteness can never be disputed, f Earl Carroll accomplishes his lurpose of pioneering the public o mammoth musical shows that rill be within the reach of aver.ge theatregoers' pocketbooks, he rill have done a great deal more ban giving Broadway just another beatre...
...Another musical which Is in the process of being written for Mr...
...and the Sunkist Ensemble made up ol 18 dancing athletes...
...Including those Hooding the stage and those upon the stage, are controlled and operated from a consol...
...A new style of decoration has been established for future generations to copy...
...It has been recognized as a work of art by the German Film Art Commission...
...A grand -airway is 44 feet wide...
...Harris' "Once In a Lifetime," the seemingly perennial, which has delighted thousands of N ew Yorkers during the past season and which is still holding forth at the Plymouth, will take to the road early next season for an extended nation-wide tour...
...They are expected to have it finished and in the hands of Mr...
...Filming "The Brat" under the direction of John Ford was precarious work for the Fox Film "Thirteen Hen And a Girl" Star* The RKO Cameo v "Thirteen Ken and a Girl," now piaytng at the RKO Cameo Theatre, ti takes from the famoui German stage success "The last Company...
...Conrad Veidt, who enacts the role of the captain, will be remembered for his characterizations in "The Cabinet of Or...
...It is operated in the same manner, by dlaL The light consol Is probably the most notable contribution to theatre and production improvement of this decade...
...It will be at the Cameo indefinitely...
...is to be on the winningside," Horns by claims...
...Die Lustigen Weiber Von Wien" Now in It* Seventh Week at the Little Carnegie Large numbers of movie goers continue to appreciate "Die Lustigen Weiber von Wien" or "The Merry Wives of Vienna," so much so that this cheerful operetta with music by Robert Stolz, composer of "Two Hearts," will continue dVer the week-end at Leo Breeder's Little Carnegie Playhouse where it has now been on view for six weeks...
...Dorothy Peterson, Doris Lloyd and Raymond Mil land are some of the supporting players in this production...
...George B. Seitz directed "Men Are Like That," while the adaptation and dialogue were handled by Robert Riskin...
...Miss Bennett herself has pronounced it her most absorbing screen venture...
...Irving...
...The Great Huber Heads Hip...
...Leo Brecher Sends News from Berlin A cable Just received from Leo Br...
...Willy Forst, Lee Parry, Irene Eislnger, Paul Hoerbiger and Oskar Slma have the leading roles in this story of the famed "city of song" in the gay days at 1875...
...Each girl has a beautiful iressing table...
...Stage Play "Arizona" Now at The Strand Theatre "Men Are Like That," the plcturization of Augustus Thomas' famous stage play, "Arizona," came into the New York Strand yesterday night...
...his two wtlfu sons around to their senses...
...Carroll estimated he can create ihows costing nearly twice as much as ever before, with three times the weekly overhead of any previous revue and still earn worth while profits at about one-half previous seat prices...
...Melville Burke will direct It will have a tryout at Asbury Park the week of August 31...
...Preceded, by a fame which has penetrated every hamlet that boasts of a theatre or a theatre-minded public "Once in a Lifetime" should have little difficulty In repeating the popular success it enjoyed in New York...
...From unseen sources the theatre may be flooded with red...
...Harris very shortly...
...Ihree attendants parade each aisle luring intermissions with a water wagon...
...The picture is based on the best-selling novel, "Jackdaw's Strut" by Harriett Henry...
...The Interior is black, trimmed with stainless steel and glass...
...Earl Carroll Opens New Era in World of Thea Earl Carroll Sets a New Standard for Revue Production with the Auspicious Opening of His Beautiful New Theatre on August 27—The Distinguished Impressario Brings to the Public a Mjammoth Musical Show Within the Reach of the Average Theatregoer iSarl Carroll la expending: 34.503,000 on his new Earl Carroll Theatre at Seventh avenue and 50th street, merely for the purpose of presenting his Earl Carrol Vanities and other revues at S3 and 34 less per seat than ever before...
...Ben Lyon, Richard Bennett the star's father...
...This new device Is the first one ever created...
...Thinking of the callousness of the people her father has served, Florence decides maybe Hornsby is right and you should never give a sucker an even break...
...Fulton Oursler and Lowell Brentano, authors of that successful mystery play of a few seasons ago, "The Spider," which was also produced by Mr...
...At the 8th Street Playhouse Starting today, the Eighth Street layhouae will present the mys?ry thriller "Sherlock Holmes Witt Roger* in "Youm As You FeeT' at the Fo...
...An unique decorative icheme, all modern, has been caried out in every turn and twist if the various walls...
...By acquiring a 3,000 seating capacity and giving four matinees a week Mr...
...He reports that the present trend is away from musicals of the type of "Die Lustigen Weiber von Wien," now being presented here in his playhouse on 57 th street, although the Germans have admittedly surpassed all others in fashioning this type of screen entertainment Comedies seem to predominate at present with dramatic and mystery stories also in favor...
...Os**paper the . plan looks feasible, baskets full of congratulations for courage to inaugurate price moderation in the theatre have poured in upon Earl Carroll and the actual result when the theatre is thrown'open to the public on Thursday, August 27, is awaited with interest by the entire show world...
...The poem Which provides the theme was written by one of the "hirteen remaining soldiers while waiting for the oncoming French...
...So she allows her faith, belief and purity to be exploited and the louder she exhorts her audiences to have faith,the less she has in tier own heart, until she meets the jlind boy, Carson, who hears her beautiful words, senses the purity >f her soul and does not see the slttemees in her disillusioned eyea The romance of the miracle wonan and the blind ex-aviator—her egeneration and his recovery—is old ki "The Miracle Woman," an idaptation of a famous play by lohn Meehan and Robert Riskin...
...Although the men were chosen for the ensemble of "Shoot the Works" as dancers rather than vocalists, they have been achieving surprising results in harmony...
...Paddy Saunders, while running a humorous line of pafer, cartoons and Nate Busby presents a Skit, 'It's Christmas at the Big House...
...The theatre will contain studios, work rooms and experimental laboratories for every department of revue production...
...Pretty Glorianna j Lea delights with her dances while the Harris Twins play pianos and trip the light fantastic too...
...The thins...
...The auditorium is enclosed, metal doors with beautiful etched designs, protecting the aisles...
...Harris also has under consideration a play called "The Whole Mule" by Rufus King, a well known writer of detective faction...
...Also an announcement board on the proscenium arch designates the number of scene in progress...
...Tou don't wear yourself out when yon go with the tide and you can't get hurt if you're callous...
...This is the famous story of love and revenge in an Arizona military poet which has been presented in dramatic form upon'the stage •Che world over since its first showing in Chicago in 1899, where it ran for nine months...
...Three orchestras may replace one another, and orchestras may be displaced by scenic effects, fountains or girls, at will, without interrupting the music...
...Brecher will remain abroad for five or six weeks completing arrangements with leading producers for the showing of their pictures in this country...
...Such effects are possible only with the sew devices installed for this house...
...Not only that but he inliated upon every nook and corler, front and back stage, being listinctive...
...For the first time an auditorium contains four light circuits...
...Bringing added popularity with him in his second week at the Fox, Phil Lampkm continues as Master of Ceremonies, «*»m»«g honors with Bob West, featured organist, and crooning Eddie Magi 11...
...It contains chronium thermos bottles from which purified and cooled water will be dispensed in sanitary manner...
...Veidt is supported by Karin Evans...
...Goza von Bolvary directed...
...The walls are glistening black Burke-stone and velvet...
...That is a lot of money to expend ipon an idea which has been tested Dut only theoretically on paper...
...It is no larger than a radio receiving set...
...Something in the way of a novelty may be expected in this play, it being neither the conventional musical comedy nor the traditional revue but a hybrid retaining: some of the best.features of both...
...Kohn and De Pinto offer nifty steps to the accompaniment of their own triolln and piano-accordlan music...
...Another scene has a portal 50 feet iigh, 20 feet higher than any previous scene on the stage...
...busi ness man who suddenly tarn young and leads the pace that kill in order to brine...
...Clifford McGuiness and John Colton, co-author of the never to be forgotten "Rain," another Harris "hit," are working on an adaptation of "The Serenade to the Hangman," a novel written by the popular French author, Maurice DeKobra...
...revue Is "Olumpic Games" Idea dedicated to the 1982 Olympiad to be held in Los Angeles...
...Harris, will bring forth yet another mystery melodrama for the same producer next season...
...The artisti appearing therein are Paul Remoi A His Wander Midgets...
...The magician combines magic, illusion, mystery and comedy with the assistance of four attractive blonde deceivers...
Vol. 13 • August 1931 • No. 7
