The Lunts and Noel Coward Cavort at The Barrymore
The Lunts and Noel Coward Cavort at The Barrymore nfJIGNBD FOB TRIFLING 'DESIGN FOR LIVING." By and with N«*l Coward, Aha with Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt. At th* Ethel...
...tage' D*ve Schooler "nd »» Music, playing modern melodies •"U «ign supreme...
...When the play opened in New York, I found, much to my surprise, that I was also acting in It...
...Hot Pepper" with Lowe, McLaglen and Velei at Fox B'klyn...
...Without imitating- the type of name, Noel Coward shows a similar sense of power in the theatre, offering the public a personal frolic, a gay gambol through nothingness while he and the bunt* have a good time...
...We are introduced intimately to the figures who have played their part in this significant drama and those who have seized control to compel the German people to carry out their particular political and economic plans...
...Al Reid offers another stage presentation, "Miami," featuring the Piekenf, Sisters of #National Broadcasting fame...
...Shakespeare, soon after he began writing, had achieved such sure popularity in the theatre that b* could call his trifles "As You Ufcs ft" snd "What You Will...
...4, at the RKO Cameo Theatre...
...EMBASSY NEWS REEL THEATRE "PRESENTS INTERESTING FILM ON PRESENT GERMAN CRISIS The intensely crucial political drama, which is being enacted in Germany today and which holds in its relentless grip the future of the German people, is presented this week in a new form at the Embassy News Reel Theater in a special film "Whither Germany ? or Will the Kaiser Come Back...
...The price of admission is 25 cents at all times for all seats...
...Anil such activity, to Thomas Mitchell, is just child's play...
...Woven into this film, like a Greek chorus, are pictures of popular demonstrations of enormous proportions—the Nazis, the Steel Helmets, the Socialists, the Centrists, the Communists—all insisting with song and cheers and shouts that they alone have the key to the problems which have beset Germany since th* armistice...
...The film is only part of the regular program of the Embassy Ncwsreel Theatre presentations, which show a panorama of personalities, events and placet of world-wide range...
...MICHALESKO OPENS AT BRONX PROSPECT THEATER Returning to the Bronx after an absence of two years, Michal Michalesko will be seen as guest star of the Bronx Prospect Theater for a limited engagement beginning tonight...
...Though still a young man, Mitchell can look back on almost two decades in the theater, two decades in which he haa earned and deserved the title "Jack-of-all-tlieatrical trades...
...and starred, more recently, in "Clear All Wires...
...He has been at various times an actor, author, director, re-wrlte man and technical advisor and, on accasions, all five combined...
...wrote two plays...
...These three (with competent assistance from the minor members of the cast) give a truly virtuoso display of acting, and add tome excellent samples of stage cooperation...
...Ivan" to Have Special MidNight Showing at Cameo "Ivan," the first sound film of the famous Soviet director, Dovzhenko, will be presented for one midnight performance, Saturday, Feb...
...When "Clear All Wires" closed in New York on Saturday, I took a train to Philadelphia and got there just in time for the dress rehearsal of "Honeymoon" on Sunday morning...
...A pleasant mousse, a sweet frappe, a delectable dessert...
...Although praised by the Soviet film critics as a fine example of filmcraft, "Ivan" was condemned for being too aesthetic...
...El Brendel plays a comedy role that furnishes a good share of the fun, his simple ingenuousness, being in mir'ad contrast to the broad rowdyism of Quirt and Flag...
...This film of Germany's crisis is truly "history in the making...
...Besides these, he costarred last year in 'Riddle M* This" with Frank Craven...
...As Quirt and Flagg, lx>we and McLaglen have become one of the most famous teams on the screen...
...While still starring in "Clear All Wires," he was doubling as a director in his spare time by staging "Honeymoon...
...ilt(Vh...
...According to the theatrical records, Tommy Mitchell has spent only two days in the last five years out of the theatre...
...Mitchell directed "Little Accident" and "Cloudy With Showers," starring in and co-authoring both plays...
...Men and women today are interested, not in ideas, but in personalities...
...Other members of the cast arc Lilian Bond, Gloria Roy and Boothe Howard...
...This taste, catered to and fostered by the scandal sheets and the gossip columns, makes this a play at which the audience watches, not Gilda, Otto, and Leo, but always Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt, and Noel Coward...
...and 50th St., beginning today...
...Beejfle Esther Howard and Wilh*m Janncy, the leading players •re supported by J. Farrell MacBonald, Virginia Sale, Richard ™«er, Astrid Alwyn, Freddie Frederick and Ronnie Cosby...
...Sophie Treedwell to Produce "Lone Valley" Sophie Treadwell, author of "Machinal" and a number of other plays, announces that she is to enter the field of play-producing with the presentation early in March of a drama entitled "Lone Valley," written by herself...
...The film was not banned, but had only a limited run in Moscow...
...The play was successfully tried out last summer in Nyack, N. Y., with Irene Homer in the leading role...
...to midnight...
...A cast has already been chosen and rehearsals will get under way within a week...
...Because of its difficulties in the Soviet Union, the Amkino has decided to give "Ivan" but one showing in this country to determine the reactions of Americans to thii picture It may be shown in the United Statea again...
...J. T. S. "Iron Master" at Original Rosy —Big Vaudeville Bill Headed by Dave Schooler Lila Lee and Reginald Denny starring in "The Iron Master" comes to the Roxy Theater, 7th Ave...
...And that, in this era of unemployment, is a decided achievement...
...in "The Spice of Life,"' Gin'.1 De Quincy & Lewis in "Dance Unique," the Erlin Sisters, j ust two little knockabouts, and the 16 Fox Dollies...
...Among the Sri**** suPPortinK him will be ^Original Radio Rogues (James BoUywood, Ed Bartell and Henry "'•or), Paul Ramos and his mid¦«*, Johnny Bryant, and Pablo, an ¦twtaining magician...
...At th* Ethel Barrymore...
...re-wrote and directed sketches for "Ballyhoo...
...All they need for significant achievement is a play...
...Thosna* Mitchell "Jack-of All Theatrical Trades" In a season when Broadwayites are bemoaning the lack of activity on The Great White Way, it is certainly cheering to come in contact with Thomas Mitchell, the director of "Honeymoon," the Samuel ('hotztnof7-George Backer comedy at the Vanderbilt Theater...
...The actor will offer "The Song of Israel," Joseph Rumshinsky's Yiddish operette, in which he plays the leading role...
...A studio in Paris, a flat in London, a penthouse in New York (excellently designed by G. E. Calthrop) arc the successive haunts of these two men and one woman who love one another very much, who solve the etertud- triangle by maintaining all thrae lines, who go about throwing gay nonsense into the atmosphere, who carry on, artists as they are supposed (in the play) to be, as though the world had no existence save to provide a background lor the caprices of artists...
...Other members of the stage show include Jack Pepper & Co...
...Graphically presented, we see and hear in this film the figures and forces which have kept Germany in a state of constant conflict and uncertainty for the past 14 yetrs...
...New Stage Show A new Quirt and a new Flagg in night club settings in which the colorful, vh'acious Lupe Velez makes whoopee with Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen and El Brendel, arc featured in "Hot Pepper," the new Fox comedy opening at the Fox Brooklyn Theatre today...
...But two hours and fifty minutes of dessert make one long for a slice of good eld English roast beef...
...This is the dramatic story of the career of a scrap pile worker who rises to the control of the gigantic Stillman Iron Works and, ¦Iter the death of Stillman Senior, i» willed complete guardianship w« the fortune and thriftless •waters of the family he left behind him...
...The pi rid/inances are continuous from 10 a. ni...
Vol. 15 • February 1933 • No. 5
