Music and Murder Mix in Earl Carroll's New Show
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Music and Murder Mix in Earl Carroll's New Show The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley MUSICAL CRIME "MURDER AT THE VANITIES." A new dramatic mystery comedy by Earl Carroll and Rufus...
...Dave Schooler will preside as master of ceremonies and will guide his band through the musical numbers...
...New "Charlie Chan" Film at Original Rosy—Bobby San* ford's Revue on Stage The new Fox film, "Charlie Chan's Greatest Case," snd Bobby Sanford's "Show Boat Revue" on the stage are the twin attractions this week at the original Roxy Theatre...
...The stage is further augmented by a number of variety acts, and the Gae Foster Girls, who will be seen in new ballet routines...
...Sevencheese, forgotten at the end...
...Whitman and Carmen, an individualistic dance team...
...the Hadji Jader troupe of Arab whirlwinds, latterly a feature of Milton Aborn's production of "The Bohemian Girl...
...To mingle mystery murders and the far-famed Vanities brings the risk of spoiling two shows...
...Warner Oland, Heather Angel and John Warburton are featured in the cast of "Charlie Chan's Greatest Case," which is based on the last novel in Earl Derr Bigigers' famous Charlie Chan series...
...14 - I I)wight Deere Wiman announces that "Fledermaus," Johann Strauss' famous Viennese operetta, which was recently tried out at the Country Playhouse, West port, Conn., will open in New York at the Morosco Theatre on Saturday evening, October 14th...
...At the age of five, he started his stage career by appearing with his mother, Alice Gentle, in the old Metropolitan in Philadelphia...
...And it must be granted that, whatever Emily Post might say, these damsels have good form...
...Good, too, are some of the names of "the most beautiful girls in the world," who "pass out" through the Vanities doors: Gay Orlova, Anya Taranda, De Don Blunier, Sari Leone, Villi Milli, Sybil Aarons, and Caja Eric, are among these delectables...
...What with two actual deaths and a few impending, the dances and songs sometimes are strung on thin threads...
...The Fox Rhythm Girls and the Blue Ribbon Band complete the stage show...
...Simple Theatre More Suitable To Fine Drama," Say* Yiddish Star It is not "talkies" so much as the magnificence o- our lavish motion picture places that keeps a great portion of the American masses appreciating the drama of the legitimate stage...
...Credit must be given Carl Carroll, this cautious sea.son, for taking a chance...
...A new dramatic mystery comedy by Earl Carroll and Rufus King...
...At the New Amsterdam...
...But he is genuinely funny, and balances the eerie wandering about of Bela Lugosi, the aforementioned villain...
...With Miss Gould in headline spots on the stage program are Bert Frohman, master of ceremonies...
...And some of the steppers and a lad on roller skates are good...
...Shanghai Madness," Bert 1 rohman, Vetsita Gould, at Fox Brooklyn Venita Gould, well-known mimic and comedienne, heads the new stage and screen show at the Fox B'klyn Theatre this week, offering "impressions" of half a down men and women prominent in the public eye...
...Tledermasjs" Doe at the Morocco Oct...
...Ann Francis and Ted Wally in "ruff-ined" repartee, and Le Paul, card trickster and funmaker...
...This is the opinion of Jennie Goldstein, star and director of "The Nayder," who has selected as the home of her acting company the Bronx Prospect Theatre, that simple edifice at Prospect and Westchester Avenues, which dates back to the days when people went to see a play and not mere lobby decorations...
...Shanghai Madness," a Fox drama featuring Spencer Tracy and Fay Wray, is the film offering...
...Some of the plays he appeared in were "Week-End," "The Last Mile," "Five Star Final," "Another Language," "Wonder Boy," and the current hit, "Sailor, Beware...
...Then he started a tour of schools which proved to be an extensive one from coast to coast...
...but a deal of amusement runs along the evening, and some of the numbers, the neon lights and the swaying plumes, are artisticlly effective...
...Bruce MacFarland—Busy Actor Bruce MacFarland, who appears as "Dynamite Jones" in "Sailor, Beware" at the Lyceum Theatre, lays claim to an interesting and varied career...
...In 1924 he came to New York and his jobs were many and diversified, until he finally hit kit stride as a much sought after actor...
...but when good these things, in a revue, need no excuse...
...The simple theatre is the only suitable background for the drama, Miss Goldstein firmly believes, for it in no other way can be the center of attraction and in no other way can it be an authentic setting for life which the drama portrays...
...Billy Mouse (big as one) supplies most of the play's humor, which is often a challenge to the censor...
...It must be admitted that the result is an odd mixture—with one villain, Mr...
Vol. 16 • October 1933 • No. 15
