New York Hails Return of Eva and the Civic Rep
New York Hails Return of Eva and the Civic Rep FROM HRAVEN TO EVA 'LILIOM,- by Ferene Molnar. "CAMILLE," by Alexander Dumas, fie. Eva Le Gallienne return* to the Civie...
...After bar year of rest and rumination Eva Le Gallienne has brought her fine intelligence back to enrich the New York theatre...
...She cannot understand, but Julie can, how some slaps, hard as they may be, do not hurt...
...Eva Le Gallienne's interpretation of the part seems to me a bit too healthy in the last act...
...If her emotion fails to lift her to the peak of her opportunity, her intelligence may be depended upon for an extra impulsion—which makes the performances of the Civic Repertory Theatre among the most worthwhile in this city of theatres...
...the man is a bit older and more studied ia his role, Eva maintains the impression of inexpressive yearning that makes Julie more significant than the serving maid else might be...
...So twisted are his standards, so awkward his efforts at displaying his affection, that when he comes to earth he steals a stat for the daughter who has sur vived him, and instead of winning her affection slapa her...
...he can go through the golden portal, and learn to play the harp, for the time when Eva ascends to the righteous heaven...
...it is hard to believe that she is really dying...
...Liliom is given fifteen years behind the red door, by the Police Magistrate of the after-world, to conquer the pride that prevents him from admitting he loved his Julie and had tried to steal for her and the coming child...
...Nor is Schildkraut as valid an Armand as we have seen hereabouts...
...One cannot forget Dudley Digges of the old company, as "The Sparrow...
...Liliom" is a pathetic picture qf the mute, inglorious figures, the Bowery toughs and servant girls of the world, who have been driven by their birth and surroundings into disreputable ways, and whose yearnings for better things are stifled in them...
...Armand Denis, co-producer of the Balinese Aim, "Goona-Goona," which is now playing at the Cameo Theatre, has been selected to direct Frank Buck's new adventure film...
...Eva Le Gallienne return* to the Civie Repertory Theatre...
...and through most of the play Eva Le Gallienne is mad, merry, mocking, or solemn-sad to please all but the most fastidious...
...The new "Liliom" with which she opens the Civic Repertory season is not greatly different from the one in which she and Joseph Schildkraut starred for the Guild...
...The quiet pathos—despite Its underworld noise—of "Liliom" is followed, in the repertory, by "The Lady of the Camelias," which, although smacking of the artificiality of the last century, has still many effective moments, and invites the efforts of many an actress— at the present moment, two...
...but the remainder of the cast in the present production gets a firm grip on the essence of the work...
...But we are sure thai Liliom will not have to spend any more time beyond the brazen door...
...But the production is marked by a group spirit that builds up the episodes...
Vol. 14 • November 1932 • No. 19
