Osgood Perkins Makes Us Linger at "Goodbye Again"
Osgood Perkins Makes Us Linger at "Goodbye Again" The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley hello once more "GOODBYE AGAIN. By Allan Scott and George Haigkt. At the Masque. Arthur J....
...Arthur J. Beckhard has put on another deserved hit, in the swift humor of "Goodbye Again...
...Charles A. Niggemeyer present...
...Maedchen in Uniform's" story is of life in a boarding schcol for daughters of Prussian army officers and members of the aristocracy...
...New Scale of Prices "Honeymoon," the comedy depicting twenty-four hours of matrimonial madness, written by Sam...
...Balcony aeats for all performances have been reduced to the attractive scale of $1, $1.50 and $2...
...The production is mounted with a fine sense of taste, refinement and discrimination...
...All orchestra seats have been reduced from $3 to $2 for all performances, including Saturday evenings...
...The capable cast is headed by Katherine Alexander, who distinguished herself last season as leading lady of Elmer Rice's "Left Bank...
...Hilda Claire, who plays the high-spirited young wife, was accorded acclaim by the dramatic critics for her splendid charracterization earlier in the month in "Girls in Uniform...
...Madchen in Uniform" Opens Today at the Fob Bldyn...
...The story of this delightful play is interesting and its charming characters, clever dialogue and novel situations afford an amusing evening in the theatre...
...Sam Jack Kaufman and the F6x Playboy Band continue and Bob West entertains with hii organ antics...
...and the rest of the cast all the play requires for pleasant savoring...
...Chotslnoff, the former music critic of the New York World, and Geo...
...yet some of these are among the most amusing moments, for Osgood Perkins fills the stage with his suavely alert personality, with some of the best stage work of our theatre today...
...It is less easy to understand—is, indeed, the play's chief flaw—how the intelligent, sensitive novelist can bring himself to anything with this silly, oversentimental, small-town romanticist that he should lie about to his intelligent, sensitive, secretarysweetheart...
...It shows how a lonely girl reacts to harsh and impersonal discipline, how she responds to the sympathetic treatment given her by an understanding teacher, how the head mistress of the school is affronted when she misinterprets the ensuring student-teacher relationship, and it shows how the other girls in the school revolt against the stern and unfeeling philosophy of education and guidance imposed upon them...
...Chotzinoff's Comedy ''Honeymoon*' Now at the Venderbilt...
...Backer, has moved to larger quarters at the Vsndsrbilt Theatre...
...and one can understand how the smalltown wife has fortified her barren years with a glamor greater than memory...
...The return upon the successful novelist of a casual campus affair of eight yeors before, serves him right...
...Leslie Adams is a most genial cuckold...
...Now Stage Show "Maedchen in Uniform," the widely discussed German film, opens at the Fox Brooklyn Theatre today...
...The way he tucks himself in bed, though perfectly well, in preparation for the conference with his admirer's lawyer and her husband is as entertaining as the other arrangements he makes for their reception...
...Ross Alexander, who by the way Is no relative of Katherine Alexander, plays the bewildered bridegroom...
...Sally Jites an intelligent though loving secretary...
...another of his original revuei called "Ship Ahoy...
...In the stollai east are included Broadway favorites in addition to the Sixteen Foi Dollies...
...As enacted by the lovely Mertha Thiele (the affection starved pupil), by Dorothea Wieck (the beloved teacher), by Emilia Unda (the Bismarckian head mistress) and ' j a fine cast of girls and women, "Maedchen in Uniform" is a distinct innovation in the depiction of delicate human relationships...
...The play was staged by Thomas Mitchell, who was the hilarious newspaper correspondent earlier in the season in "Clear All Wires...
...This move ia advantageous because, in addition to affording a greater number of seats for sale, it enables the management of "Honeymoon" to follow the spirit and the policy of present-day trends and to decrease the Prices of tickets...
...More minutes than in most plays go by without words, filled with silent character touches...
Vol. 15 • January 1933 • No. 2
