Fleet Youth and Usting Gaiety With The Guild
Fleet Youth and Usting Gaiety With The Guild THE ROMANTIC AGONY. -AH, WILDERNESS!" By Eugene O'Neill. With George U. Cohan. At the Guild. Persons have been referring to "Ah, Wilderness!" as a...
...That," and "Top of the World," aa E. M. Newman world adventure...
...redeemed and made good theatre by a production of the first rank...
...O'Neill has made his boy a member of a New England family, and he affords us a series of effective studies of that family, instead of concentrating on the singl* problem of the lad and his early love...
...With consummate skill the direction of Philip Mueller keeps true the atmosphere...
...It is the second sort of picture O'Neill gives, and emphasizes both by the ninny he shows as Dick's sweetheart and by the trite remarks and closing consolations of the parents, who see that their sob is saved for virtue, after all...
...Elisha Cook, Jr., is, convincingly, the sensitive yet half-baked moon-calf boy...
...Charles Judeis and George Givot, « ltw coraedy team, ia "How D'yi jjk...
...save for the syrupy ending, however, this picture of calf love and the moods of its frustration points rather to such plays as Wedekind's "Awakening of Spring...
...Surrounding the feature film ia a Vitaphone short which features Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins and Patricia Ellis in a two-act musical novelty, "Tia Spring," filmed entirely in Technicolor...
...I think of the difference between Mark Twain's boys and Tarkington's: the former shown in their own rfght, as normal specimens of their age, needing no excuse for living...
...Detach this play from the smooth direction and glamorous performance it receives, and there remians one of the feebler products of our first playright...
...Fleet Youth and Usting Gaiety With The Guild THE ROMANTIC AGONY...
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...the Puritanical yet loving mother (in those pre-sophisticate days of 1906) is excellently portrayed by Majorie Marquis, and the tolerant father, genial, trying to grasp the nature of the boy's feelings yet hold him to virtue's wsy, is a masterpiece by George M. Cohan...
...Otto Kroger, noted stage star, has the leadug masculine role opposite Miss Stanwyck, while the other members of the cast include Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Donnelly, Laura Hope Crews, Frank Alper-ston, Donald Meek, Clara Blandick and Harry Beresford...
...as a comedy, and speaking of "O'Neill in a new vein...
...The scene in the disreputable hotel isn't a patch to the bar-room scene in O'Neill's earlier "Anna Christie," is indeed inferior to several by lesser names of recent years...
...the latter seen by an adult who watches tolerantly yet with condescension: What fools these youngsters be...
...Ever in My Heart" Opens at Brooklyn Strand A romance of strength and interest is said to mark the plot of Barbara Stanwyck's latest picture, "Ever in My Heart," which Is current at the Brooklyn Warner Strand Theatre...
...The tenderness of the parents toward Dick in his looming disasters, does not, unfortunately, extend to the author's portrait of the lad himself...
Vol. 16 • October 1933 • No. 17
