Beauty In Color and Sound Comes Across At the Alvin (The Week on the Stage)
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Beauty In Color and Sound Comes Across A]t the Alvin The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley MUSIC AMID BEAUTY "MUSIC IN THE AIR." Music by Jerome Kern. Books and Lyrics by Oscar...
...In scene* the beauty of which Joseph Urban has never surpassed, Jerome Kern surpasses himself in the deft deligh...
...of the musical score for "Music in the Air," Broadway's newest hit...
...I've Told Every Little Star," "The Song Is You"— several of the tunes made immediate catches...
...Books and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstsin, 2nd...
...Ths program changes each week, but most of the members of the cast will remain in the company throughout the winter...
...These questions rise, among the persons of the play, as the book is mentioned...
...At the Empire...
...Young, fresh country folk are caught in the sophisticate swirl of the big city, alas, too oft I And in this play a couple's happiness is endangered, aa a great music-hall singer toys with the boy, and her librettist (and lover) fans the rising flame of ambition in the breast of the country girl...
...Or should we wake it...
...and ever the music of Jerome Kern recalls us to enjoyment...
...Sunday Nights at Nine" » - Furnishing a highly varied, yet artistic program synchronised into aa Intimate revue, "Sunday Nights at Nine" solves that ancient problem, what to do on Sunday night Sigmund Spaeth acts as co-master-of-ceremonies with Gene Lock hart, who has written many of the skits that sparkle through this show...
...With a lilt and a lift beyond his "The Cat and the Fiddle," his airs, in several songs, alone could carry the evening...
...but often the ensemble wins grace before Urban's beautiful settings...
...There is a "Mickey Mouse in Arabia" Aim for Mickey Mouse fans and the usual Fox Movietone News...
...Do the bare happenings— all we usually have to go by—permit us to judge of an event...
...But fear not, fair reader, Jack shall have his Jill again, and all as smiling on...
...with better acting (though we did like Mary Servos*) it might be a deserving hit...
...NEATLY TURNED "DANGEROUS CORNER," by J. B. Priestly...
...Dudley Digges heads a supporting cast that includes June Clude, Claude Gillingwater, Edward Pawley and George Meeker...
...When, at the close, it is all turned back once more upon us, we see how skilfully the author has out-manoeuvred the audience, and managed to let sleeping dogs lie...
...Tess" is the eleventh picture made by these popular screen lovers and co-stars...
...The humor of the play is not well sustained...
...The Sleeping Dog" is the name of a book a novelist in the play has written...
...With the demonstration fully made, the play neatly' returns to the moment of the poised question...
...Gaynor-Farrell at the Rosy Colorful Stage Revue The World Premiere of Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in "Tess of the Storm Country" takea place today at the Roxy Theatre...
...The players and the director, unfortunately, have put Mr...
...How much of the truth of a situation is known when we become aware of what we call the facts...
...If the traditions of the Empire Theatre at first seem shaken by J. B. Priestly's new play, there grows through the evening a sense that "Dangerous Corner" after corner is being successfully negotiated, and an excellent situation slowly builded out of casual conversation...
...At the Alvin...
...And how could a cast that includes Reinald Werrenrath, Natalie Hall, Tullio Carminati, Katherine Carrington, and Al (of "Gallagher and ) Shean be aught but a bright success?* The story of the play doubles an olden theme...
...Scenery by Joseph Urban...
...Priestley in a dangerous corner he is not here to turn...
...Frank Cambria's stage show opens with an overture by the Roxy Great Orchestra under the direction of David Ross—"Orpheus" by Offenbach...
...from them, by an apparently accidental yet inevitable growth, the play proceeds to a series of revelations—action in retrospect—that makes the danger of truth more than clear...
...or are the unrevealed impulses, the motives and the inner conflicts, the greater part of the story...
...there are moments of dullness...
...Should we let truth lie...
...It is an ingenious and effective theatrical tour de force...
...the dog is truth...
Vol. 14 • January 1932 • No. 21
