Bright and Bustling Frolic in "Gay Divorce"
Bright and Bustling Frolic in "Gay Divorce" The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley BRITTLE WITTOL '•(JAY DIVORCE." An intimate musical comedy. Music and lyrics by Cole Porter, Hook by...
...At 34 West 46th St...
...The Roxy Theatre stage show will offer a novelty this coming week...
...and other satisfactions do not dull the disappointment at not .hearing song from one of the best Negro voices in America...
...At the Ethel Barrymore...
...Women's Committee Arranges Theatre Party Members who have not yet secured tickets for the theatre party for the Scholarship Fund of the Women's Committee of the Rand School to be held Monday, December 12th, are urged to do so at once...
...But, with all that good music floating around, it's a shame not to let tho chuckling Taylor Gordon sing...
...PRIZEWORTHY PUPPETS "Til E YALE PUPPETEERS...
...This film was produced by Deane H. Dickason and is presented by Principal Adventures Pictures, successors of Talking Picture Epics...
...The Devil's Host" at the Meiting Pot Theatre Carl Click, author of "The Devil's Host," has completed another play called "Enemies at Home," which will be presented by The Melting Pot Theatre on December 9, 10, 11, at the Church of All Nations, 9 Second Avenue...
...The Melting Pot Theatre was organized this fall by a group of people whose interest in the theatre is usch, that they decided to write and produce their own plays—merely for the pleasure that could be derived from such creative endeavors...
...In the opening scene, or as a touch of America when (in the amusing list of reasons why "I Still Love the Red, White and Blue") Luella Gear goes patriotic, we'd like to hear Taylor Gordon sing...
...All talking throughout, the picture also has explanatory titles in English...
...Opening with "The Haydn Trio," and following with a selection for two pianos, the Yale Puppeteers launch at once on the most hazardous undertaking—and crown themselves with laurel...
...Fred Astairo lightens the evening with his footwork...
...The subject will be "Schonberg and Anti-Romanticism...
...The chorus girls remember what the devil's rnintake was with St...
...It is in no sense a commercially-minded group...
...Following her engagement here, Miss Gilbert is scheduled to demonstrate her spins and whirls at the Brooklyn Paramount...
...The Women's Committee has obtained Sidney Howard's new comedy, "The Late Christopher Bean," starring Pauline Lord and Walter...
...The Chassidic Jews of nineteenth century Poland are brought to life on the (stage of the Yiddish Art Theatre in "Yoshe Kalb," and Yiddish Theatre audiences viewing the play are doing nothing more or less than responding to an urge bred in them throughout centuries—the urge to recall the pious, mystical existence of their ancestors...
...When the curtain rises on Taylor Gordon hopes are raised...
...Yoabe Kalb" Has Strong Appeal at Yiddish Art Theatre Although Jewish playgoers have been immeasurably thrilled by "Yoshe Kalb," Maurice Schwartz's Chassidic spectacle at the Yiddish Art Theatre, they are for the most part in ignorance of the real, deepseated appeal the production has for them...
...Puppets and direction by Harry Burnett...
...Hut the play has a lot else to give...
...Lines, Lyrics and Music by Forman Brovm...
...but puppetry must be seen to be enjoyed: take the hint...
...It is a brilliant piece, lavishly and humoreluding a merry-go-round and a ferriswheel full of puppets, lively ously done, with bright scenes—inchoruses of burghers and housewives and little lady-rats, and even a»«dapper...
...and Luella Gear gives us a foretaste of Beatrice Lillie, yet with a personality quite her own...
...The policy of two performances a day, all seats reserved, withh be continued, but the increased seating capacity of the new house has made it possible to reduce prices to $1.10 for the best seats at evening showings and $.75 at matinees, the lowest scale for a twoa-day feature film on Broadway...
...Anthony...
...Catherine Littlefield in Stage Revue "Me and My Pal," a comedy melodrama of New York life, with Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett, starts a run at the Roxy Theatre today...
...Management by Richard Brandon...
...Music and lyrics by Cole Porter, Hook by Dwigkt Tuylur...
...Adele T. Katx at Rand School Adele T. Katz, with the assistance of Kurz Weil at the piano, is giving one of her last lectures of the Rand School Series on Friday night, December 16th, at 8:30...
...Arthur Beckhard to Produce "Goodbye Again" For his third dramatic production on Broadway Arthur J. Beckhard, producer of "Another Language" at the Booth Theatre and of "Carry Nation," has selected s contemporary comedy entitled "Goodbye Again," by Allan Scott and George Haight, which he will present at the Masque Theatre some time during the week of December 26...
...Virgins of Bali" at Cameo "Virgins of Bali," a motion picture of the Island of Bali as it is today, is in its first New York showing at the Cameo Theatre...
...For, without words, under the necessity of keeping time with the music, they give a display of technical manipulation of the cleverly-made figures that deserves the label uncanny...
...The film was recently imported from Rome, where it was made with a cast of Italian players, headed by Arturo Falconi and Emma Gramatica...
...Me and My Gal" Roxy's New Film...
...This appeal is to be found in the story of the Chassidic movement in Eastern and Central Europe...
...Maedchen In Uniform" Now at 44th St Theatre "Maedchen in Uniform," John Krirrwky, and Gilford, Cochran's German film, which closed at the Criterion Theatre last Sunday night after eleven weeks' of record breaking business, is continuing its run at the 44th Street Theatre...
...Virgins of Bali" follows the daily adventures of two girls on this island and shows how many of the ancient customs of this land still affect the lives of the inhabitants...
...I wish I had more space for them...
...and in it neatly unfolds the story of the lover who is taJc,«u,Ji.or the professional corespondent...
...Italian Talkie Opens at Hindenliurg Today The Hindenburg Theatre has been leased for the American premiere of its first native talking picture, "La Veconia Signora" ("The Old Lady"), which is to have its Broadway showing there beginning tcday...
...The hotel, by the way, is pleasantly decorated by Jo Mielziner...
...and they are as sweet as the hotel suite can hold...
...Claire Luce is a fetching figure...
...Gloria Gilbert at Paramount Gloria Gilbert, late dancing star of "Ballyhoo," goes into the New York Paramount Theatre today...
...The overture played by the Roxy Symphony Orchestra is "Gypsy Love" by Franz Lehar under the direction of David Ross...
...Connoly, for the party Tickets can be obtained at the office of the Rand School...
...The second is "Old N'Orleans...
...Mej^r Snorter, visiting Hamelin Trom the U. S. A. The satiric songs pungently punctuate the procedure of the puppets, and the performance is a distinctive contribution to the revival of a roistering, rollicking art...
...Bright and Bustling Frolic in "Gay Divorce" The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley BRITTLE WITTOL '•(JAY DIVORCE...
...With their main number, "The Pie-Eyed Piper," a musical comedy version of the rat-chaser of Hamelin, the company calls forth "puppetears" of laughter...
...A splash of good wit makes the whole indeed a "Gay Divorce...
...Two scenes of wide and varied contrasts are announced, One is an Oriental spectacle, "Pearl of the East," which will introduce Catherine Littlefield and the Corps de ballet...
Vol. 14 • December 1932 • No. 24
