The World Wags Merrily "As Thousands Cheer"
The World Wags Merrily "As Thousands Cheer" The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley BEHIND THE HEADLINES "AS THOUSANDS CHEER." By Irving Berlin and Mom Hart. At the Music Box. This...
...In the satiric "To Be or Not to Be," in the spicy "Heat Wave Hits New York," in the surprisingly pathetic "Supper Time," Ethel Waters reveals deep power and sure appeal...
...Could tha police forces of great cities successfully employ mediums and clairvoyants ia tha solution of crime T One of the most notorious murderers, "Jack the Ripper,'' waa finally captured, after years of elusiveness, by a psychic who, it is said, led the operatives of Scotland Yard to his residence in London and proved his guilt "Before Dawn," RKO Radio Pictures' mystery thriller from the pen of the lata Edgar Wallace, with Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wil son, Warner Oland and Dudley Digges, which opens 0:80 Monday morning at the Mayfalr Theatre, presents this aerie theory aa the basis for its plot A beautiful young girl, gifted with unusual psychic powers, successfully leads the polios to the solution of a series of maniacal slaying perpetrated by a psychologist seeking a cache of stolen gold...
...The Hoovers arj leaving the White House...
...This sublimely ridiculous, subtly satirical, charming yet jascical revue drops a newspaper curtain on the stage, lights up one headline after another, and in the skit that follows the announcement shows a wholly unorthodox yet wholly deligheful version of what really happens to the celebrities, as thousands cheer...
...and the torch waves warning that "Uncle Sam will be in heaven when the dollar goes to hell...
...ance prior to going into a new Broadway musical production...
...in an especially deft skit (among several superb) we view the havoc behind the departing Noel Coward...
...Saturday's MDliom" cm Rosy Screen James Motion HsjsmU Stage Show The first football picture of the new season, "Saturday's Millions," with Robert Young and Leila Hyams, is the featured film attraction of the new program now at the original Fox Theatre...
...The movie stars take their turn...
...Milhauser alone...
...Fay Wray and Pert Kelton play the leading feminine roles...
...Wallace Beery, George Rraft and Jackie Cooper are the stars of this romantic comedy-drama of New York's naughty Eaataide thorough* fare, which plays the title role ia Che production...
...An augmented stage show, starring James Melton, and the hold-over, engagement of Walt Disney's "Three Little Pigs" are also part of the program...
...but whoof...
...The dances arranged by Charles Weidman are delightful specimens of the choreographic art, especially his interpretation of Revolt in Cuba...
...The new Fanchon and Marco revue stars James Melton, young radio singer, who is this week making his last vaudeville appear "I Loved A Waaaaam" at tarn Droosuyn strnssa "I Loved s Woman," a romantic drama that has aa its underlying theme the ardent affairs of a meat baron ami a grand opera star, is current at the Brooklyn Warner Strand Theatre...
...Edward G. Robinson and Kay Francis for the first time together on the screen are starred in this film...
...Rivob* Holds Over "Bowery" The Bowery," the first offering of the new Twentieth Century Pictures Company, is now ia its second week at the Rivoli...
...Other acts include the Picchiani Troupe, Lucille Watson, Ames & Arno and Bob, Bob and Bobble, the Gae Foster Girls, and Dave Schooler and his gang...
...Better hurry to see that before an ambassador protests 1 In all this fun Marilyn Miller, Clifton Webb and Helen Broderick do excellent clowning and some startling mimicry, Miss Miller's Lynn Fontanne-maid being exceptionally 'well caught But blent with this and the graceful chorus are two other fine features...
...with the first sketch hilarity rises...
...4Khe "man bites dog" prologue is perhaps overdone nonsense...
...before they go, they express a few candid (no longer candied) opinions...
...Those who see the show will be among the thousands...
...The Statue of Liberty joins the departing representatives of the foreign powers, who arrange to pay the debt in silver . . . sine . . . tin . . . wood...
...With tuneful airs in gay succession, with grace and lightness of dancing, with intelligent humor and poison-darts of well-aimed satire, this revue will reign long at the Muaic Box, as thousands cheer...
...Three Little Pigs," Walt Disney's Silly Symphony, is again seen at the Roxy hi' response to request* from thousands of patrons...
...Before Damns" Edgar Wallace TWiBar mt Mayfair Can the deed lead the living to vengeance...
...the grand opera is sponsored by magic mustard sauce...
...Equally international in its complications is the reason why England lowers the tariff rate to South America...
...Whenever Ethel Waters is onstage, we are at once aware of a vibrant personality...
...Mahatma Gandhi and Aimee MacPherson plan a combined tour...
...Two other satiric sketches peak this aspect of Jit show...
...Rockefeller Junior presents the old maq with Radio City...
...The film is baaed on a story written by Bertram Milhauser and Beulah Marie Dix, the screen play being the work of Mr...
...And, in various moods, the singing of Ethel Waters is'a joy...
...Ever In My Heart" Opens •t tf*e Hollywood "Ever in My Heart," Barbara Stanwyck's newest ~ starring picture, is at the Hollywood Theatre...
...Archie Mayo directed...
Vol. 16 • October 1933 • No. 16
