Silver Bullet on Silver Screen Vivid in "Emperor Jones"
Silver Bullet on Silver Screen Vivid in "Emperor Jones" The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley PAUL ROBESON IN STIRRING FILM Among the good plays that hare been transferred t"> the screen...
...O. S. Iceberg," continues its run at the Criterion Theatre indefinitely...
...What in the play is shown only in throw-back visions opens the film: we watch Jones rise and fall as railroad porter, lover, gambler, murderer— until the escaped convict leaps from the steamer and swims to the island...
...The vivid scenes of Jones' degeneration, as fear and superstition crumple him in the dark, are the one part of the film that might be strengthened, with a inore intense picturing of the visions, and with their sounds mingling with the steady beat of the native drum...
...Smithers, the representative of England, of the white man's empire of trade,- watches the native revolutions with the hope and the assurance that all kings pay tribute to the god of gold...
...Undesirable Lady" Stage Vehicle for Nancy Carroll Nancy Carrol returns to the stage as star of Leon Gordon's presentation of his own new play, "Undesirable Lady," this coming Tuesday night (October 3rd...
...the voodoo drums beat their warning, the silver is moulded into a bullet, and dusk drives the death-hunt through the forest...
...With Smithers (in the ever competent hands of Dudley Digges) looking on, ready to clutch advantage on eithe...
...O. S. Iceberg" Stay* on at the Criterion Universal's drama of the Arctic, "S...
...The Avenger" with Ralph Forbes and Bag Cast Due at the Mayfair, Monday "Vengeance up-to-date" is evidently the motto of Ralph Forbes, who use aeroplanes, Mills bombs, machine guns, and other implement* of modern warfare in effecting his revenge on a gang of crooks who have been instrumental in Bending him to prison in "The Avenger," new Monogram feature which will have its first New York showing Monday at the Mayfair Theatre...
...But even an emperor may be too exacting...
...His release is effected through the death-bed confession of one of the gang...
...side, Jones, with his superior knowledge, works upon the natives until he is undisputed lord...
...but even these are effective, and work to a strong climax as the Emperor Jones falls dead at the feet of his exultant subjects...
...The Avenger" is the story of the weird vengeance of a young assistant district attorney who has been sentenced to twenty years in prison on circumstantial evidence...
...Arnold Fanck, noted outdoor Aim producer and explorer, brings to the screen a drama staged in polar regions never before penetrated by the sound camera...
...Universal's six months' expedition into Northern Greenland, headed by Dr...
...Appearing with Forbes are Adrienne Ames, Arthur Vinton, Claude Gilingwater, Charlotte Merriam, J. Carroll Naish, Burton Churchill, Paul Fix and others...
...Walts Tune" Brings Evelyn Laye to the Little Carnegie "Waltz Time," A. P. Herbert's adaptation of "Die Fledermaus," had its American premiere Thursday, September 28th, at Leo Brecher's Little Carnegie Playhouse...
...Silver Bullet on Silver Screen Vivid in "Emperor Jones" The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley PAUL ROBESON IN STIRRING FILM Among the good plays that hare been transferred t"> the screen with successful power must now be listed "Emperor Jones," which is giving Paul Robeson opportunity to display in a new medium his rounded talents...
...0. S. Iceberg" crowds into its cinema unwinding the explosion of a giant iceberg, a mortal struggle against ravenous ice bears, the screen debut of northern lights, and the unique feat of a plane landing on a floating iceberg...
...Knowing who has framed him, but unable to prove it before law, Forbes embarks upon the unusual plan of terror campaign, which one by one brings about the disappearance of his enemies until only one remairs for the startling finale of his plan...
...Besides Miss Laye, last seen in America in the Ziegfeld production of "Bitter Sweet," the cast of "Waltz Time" includes Gina Malo, Jay Laurier, Parry Jones, Edmond Breon, Ivor Barnard, and Fritz Schultz...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 14
