Dear Jane, A Prize of Porcelain and Pearl
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"Dear Jane", A Prize of Porcelain and Pearl The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley DELIGHTFUL JANE "DEAR JANE.K By Eleanor liulmes Hinkley. At the Civic Repertory. Quietly, without...
...A radiant role, that sets her high among our younger actresses...
...McGrath has made an effective play out of her life...
...In order to make this picture, Williamson perfected his father's invention, the Williamson tube, and has added the photosphere, which enables him to bring to the bottom of the ocean studio lights...
...a more humorous, more poetic, successor to "Alison's House," a worthy addition to the rich roll of the Civic Repertory...
...but in Jone's testing the tragic limitations are no more than glimpsed beneath the cloak of her humor-decked courage...
...Dear Jane", A Prize of Porcelain and Pearl The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley DELIGHTFUL JANE "DEAR JANE.K By Eleanor liulmes Hinkley...
...What the woman, who thought her name a divine prophecy— CAN-Carry a Nation—would think of the prohibition she went smashing for, is another question...
...yet minutely observant, catching a number of figures in careful miniatures...
...Like a rotten fish, it smells worst at the head...
...SHAKING UP SHAKESPEARE Repertory of Comedies, mainly...
...With Williamson Beneath the Seas" Opens at Cameo "With Williamson Beneath the Seas," an adventure among the mysteries and monsters of the deep, photographed by the Williamson tube, is current at the Cameo Theatre...
...Quietly, without pretentions excursion and alarms, a new delight has come into the theatre...
...18, 1775, ia Jane Austen's birthday...
...Close-ups of sharks and barracudas as well as intriguinfi pictures of muny Ash never before photographed...
...A deal of love and joy—not to mention pains—have gone into the play, and they have blended to produce a gentle treasure...
...Every now and then it is good to be reminded that the plays of Shakespeare- are not only good poetry, but excellent theatre...
...J. T. S. New Yiddish Play at Bronx Prospect Theatre Jennie Goldstein, star and director of the Prospect Theatre, has the stellar role in "Golden Dreams," a new Jewish comedy-drama by S. H. Cohen with music by Harry Lubin...
...Directed by Percival Vivian...
...The theme, if we seek one, is the grim question some women face, of marrisge versus a career...
...Often these lights are not necessary, but by this additional feature Williamson is prepared to pursue and photograph any of the deep sea wonders or cannibals...
...At the Shakespeare Theatre...
...By Frank McGrath...
...Gaynor and Farrell on the Screen ef Fox Brooklyn-Nina Olivette in Stage Show With its opening sequences aboard a big three-masted schooner and the remainder of the story taking place in a fisherman's colony along the Main sea coast, "Tees of the Storm Country" presents a romantic, if salty, atmosphere at the Fox Theatre this week...
...With Boswell's aid, the dictum ia laid down on the day Jane is brought forth...
...and neither Johnson nor Joshua Reynolds fits our picture...
...it has re-christened the Jolson Theatre...
...Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell are co-starred in this Fox films offering, and such players as Dudley Digges, June Clyde, Clauds Gillingwater, George Meeker, Matty Hemp and DeWitt Jennings are in the cas...
...At the Biltmore...
...One line, especially, we shall not forget:— The government...
...Additional features will be Bob West and Rosa Rio...
...But throughout the play Aline Bernstein's settings, and the swirling colors of her costumes, chime with the spirited directing of Eva Le Gailienne—herself a charming though subdued Cassandra, in the cast—to make ths production rise to the peak of excellence from whieh Josephine Hutchinson's Jane glows and laughs and tugs at men's hearts like a pixie...
...Musical comedy fans and dyed-in-the-wool screen fans will be happy to know that Nina Olivette, the star of many musical successes, will appear in person on the stage of the Fox Theatre with Johnny Burke in a miniature musical comedy titled "Rookies...
...Running through the lively scenes is a picture of our growing country .no city folk should miss...
...And a delightful play...
...Go up and discover that Shakespeare belongs, not within boards, but on them I "HATCHBTATION" "CARRY NATION...
...Ths Julius Hopp-Percival Vivian company is ambitious...
...Nsdel...
...and Esther Dale makes the portrait of Carry Nation vividly real...
...Save that—like many in real life—he didn't know how to get rid of her, Mr...
...raising of treasures from sunken-ships and a fight to the death between a diver and an octopus furnish drama to this picture...
...There will be a "Magic Carpet" and a Terry Toon cartoon presented...
...Miss Goldstein is supported in "Golden Dreams" by the entire Prospect Theatre company, including William Schwartz, Gertrude Bulman, Max Wilner, Abraham Teitelbaum, Katie Kaplan, David Yanover, Tillie Rabino-witz, Jacob Wtxler, Rebecca Wein-traub, Meyer Honigman, Fanny Lubritsky and Mrs...
...and it has started with a play easy to spoil...
...Even the bugaboo Samuel Johnson is topsyturvied, the whole play being a flat rejoinder to his prolegomenary pronouncement that women are stupid, silly, and superficial, and able to create only in the physical sphere...
...and the good spirits with which the piece is carried off speaks well for the remainder of the series...
...This play is the new weekend attraction supplanting "Price of Happiness...
...In a style that is always deft and delicate, often witty, and sometimes truly poetic, a style flavorous, yet not burdened, with literary allusions, a style of porcelain and pearl neatly fitted to the theme, yet—to level the author at herself —"with enough faults for the sweetness not to cloy," Eleanor Holmes Hinkley sets "Dear Jane" Austen on the stage...
...Yet a pleasant amateurishness (especially in the tiny fairy dancers) somehow adds to the fellowship and fun of the watching...
...It is a playful play, no more solemn-serious and fraught with the burden of the world than Jane's own books...
...The prologue is the weakest element of the play, especially for those who do not know that Dec...
Vol. 14 • November 1932 • No. 22
