Summer Season Starts with "Tattle Tales" (The Week on the Stage)
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Summer Season Starts with "Tattle Tales" The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley NO TELLING PfATTLE TALES." Frank Fay end Barbara Stanwyck in a ISummer Revue at tht Broadhunt. There...
...Meanwhile films by t'octeau and other experimental writers are being given there, to an audience of those interested in experiment in the theatre...
...fiuin California the Fox presents \\ esley Eddy, currently in his fourteenth week as master of ceremonies* From Spain comes Nudine Gae, "darling of the dance...
...and to Fay Bainter, who made her first stage appearance as Topsy and who, although she does not sing "Shoo fly, don't boder me," brings mischief and tenderness to the part of the black girl who "jes' growed...
...Interesting not because of the many stagecelebrities watching the play, but because, Rave for a sprinkling of children, almost all the spectators were of middle age or beyond...
...There was one week last fall in which, '"r tl,e first time in almost half a century, no company anywhere in the United States was playing "Uncle Tom's Cabin...
...Their reactions too, were in some respects surprising: the hiss that greeted Simon Legree was no mere jesting...
...George Brent plays the leading male role...
...Since then Madame Rubinstein has enlarged the scope of the repertoire to embrace cinemas of an experimental character...
...Frank Fay brings to the revue a suave and pleasing sense erf fun...
...It is said to have an interesting story, with lilting waltz melodies and beautifully photographed scenery...
...and 50th St., is this week again presenting a first run Fox film, "Trick For Trick,' with Ralph Morgan, Victor Jory and Sally Blane as the feature screen attraction of its new program...
...There is * deal of hey nonny nonny, but not bo much hot cha cha In "Tattle Tales," the first of the summer song and dance shows...
...A number of modern plays have been chosen for early production, among these being the work of young English and American dramatists...
...but "Tattle Tales"—which, by the way, has not a line in it to justify its title—needs the treatment life guards are ready to give at all our beaches...
...but among the many gathered for this play—Assie Loftus, Mary Nash, Lois Shore, Ernest I Glendenning, etc...
...Amusing or sentimentally overdone as little Eva or Eliza on the ice may seem, "the perennial durability of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" tells us a food deal of America, and of human nature...
...It is the only theatre in Paris which possesses a new-type flexible cyclorama of concrete...
...rVom the air the Fox offers Robert Simmons, hilled as ibdio's "voice with a thrill...
...Because of the widespread interest created by its "World's Fair Week," the Roxy Theatre has arranged to maintain its World's Fair Exhibit in the rotunda and mezzanine gallery for another week...
...The music of the evening, better than the lyrics, is on the whole engaging...
...We have a sense that a really good-looking chorus is not fittingly employed...
...Lilly Turner" is based on the play of that name by Phillip Dunning and George Abbott and reveals the life behind the scenes of the traveling carnivals...
...There is a bar in the foyer...
...The new theatre was originally erected under the personal supervision of Madame Rubinstein to house new English and American plays, to be produced by an all English cast recruited from actors living or visiting in Europe...
...In addition to the two headliners, there are other effective workers and ideas in the play...
...The auditorium has beige walls and is indirectly lighted and the seats are upholstered in beige blistered leather...
...To make up for this unaccountable gap, the Players hare chosen the drama for their twelfth annual revival ; and the demand has been so pressing that for the first time they hsve lengthened the showing to a second week...
...Trick for Trick" at Roxy, 7th Ave.-World's Fair Week Held Over The Roxy Theatre, 7th Ave...
...She is unexpectedly forceful in the pulpit denunciation from "The Miracle Woman," and makes us wish she were called upon for more...
...It i« scarcely Stanwyck that is utilized, for, outmore than the name of Barbara side of some affectionate by-play with bar husband, Frank Fay, her only effective use is in two scenes from her motion pictures...
...Madame Rubinstein is in private life the wife of Edward W. Titus, publisher and editor of the international English quarterly "This Quarter...
...The new screen show in headed hy Universale "The Kiss Before the Mirror," a drama of the unwritten law in which Nancy t'srroll, Paul I.okas, Gloria Stuart, Donald Cook and Frank Morgan are featured...
...audience was as interesting to observe as the play, that once served so well in the anti-slavery campaign as to be a contributing cause of the freeing...
...No one needs ever to state that the Players' revivals are wellacted...
...Berwell and Miss Tova do some good dancing...
...A new stage show headed by Harold Stern, radio's popular band master, and Bill Smith, radio's singing star, includes a lafge variety of unusual acts...
...The little theatre is on the Left Bank of Paris, at 216 Boulevard Raspail...
...Ruth Cbatterton in'Lilly Turner' Due at Rivoli Wednesday Kuth Chatterton in her latest starring picture "Lilly Turner" will follow "I Cover the Waterfront" at the Rivoli Theatre, opening on Wednesday, June 14...
...Other members of the cast include Guy Kibbee, Frank Mcllugh, Ruth Donnelly, Robert Barrat, Grant Mitchell, Margaret Seddon, Hobart Cavanaugh, Gordon Westcott, Marjorie Gateson, Arthur Vinton, Mae Busch, Lucille Ward, Catherine Claire Ward, and Mayo Methot...
...Acting vereion for the Player*' All-Star Revival at the Alvin...
...The house is expected to afford a welcome to the new experimental dramas of America...
...It was designed and built by B. Elkoukin, the famous European architect, whose work has been classe 1 as among the best examples of the modern style...
...Fiom England the show includes the Tommy Atkins Boys...
...New Paris Experimental Thea Opened by Helena Rubinstein An exquisitely appointed new Little Theatre, built for the purpose of trying out experimental plays and movies, has just been opened by Helena Rubinstein in Paris...
...and the speech pointing out that if one little heathen under thumb at home did not respond to Christian teaching, it was surely a waste tc send missionaries to the many heathen abroad, met with loud and lasting applause...
...It ¦eats 300...
...Directed hy I nines JVhale the story deals with the problem of a brilliant lawyer who, retained to defend the slayer of a faithless wife, finds his own wife keeping a secret tryst and is impelled to settle the dilemma just as the other man did Lewis Waller Directing "Headlines of 1933" Lewis Waller, originator of "The Co-Optimists," the English revue SO popular in London after the war, is directing the sketches for "Headlines of 10.1.1," the Cluck Sandor revae which is scheduled to open at the Barhizon l'la/.a oa Wednesday, June 21...
...A number of Soviet vanguard films, have been shown, and a Russian play, translated into English and to be staged by one of the Moscow directors, has been added to the repertory...
...OUR NATIONAL PLAY "UNCLE TOM'S CABIN...
...Added attract ions'lm the screen include "Itiids In Spring," a Silly Symphony in technicolor and "The Iris Family," a short subject...
...Kiss Before the Mirror" at Fox Brooklyn — New and Diversified Stage Show "Entertainment from everywhere" is the slogan at the Fox Brooklyn Theatre this Meek, and a census of the roster of its hig 10unit stage show hears out ihia assert ion...
...Vanderbilt Holds Over The Austrian film operetta Traum von Schonnbrunn* holds over for another week at the Vanderbilt Theatre...
...the stage was built by Een^ Fuerst, who is co-author With Sam Hume of a study of contemporary stage design...
...and many a player would profit by the "Eh-Eh Man," whom "Tattle Tales" evokes to warn over-ambitious performers...
...Jupai enters the lists with the Kitarn troupe of acrobats and tumblers, and Canada contributes Gardner and Jackson, who bill themselves as "Microphonies" and contribute a hilar...
...especial senti; ment attaches to two: to Otis Ckin- I ner, who was an early Uncle Tom, and who brings rich humor and pathos to the beloved role...
...A Viennese girl, the charming Martha Eggerth who only recently attained stardom, sings and dances and gives a performance said to be thoroughly pleasing to the eyes and ears...
...ious radio skit...
...but the essence of his entertainment is an unhurried pleasaunce, a sinking-in -'f satisfaction, which it is hard to synchronize with the swift patter and surging speed of a revue...
Vol. 15 • June 1933 • No. 23
