Lightning of Fantasy Plays in "Thunder on the Left"
Lightning of Fantasy Plays in "Thunder on the Left" FINE FANTASY "THUNDER ON THE LEFT." From the novel of Christopher Motley by Jean Fergusor Black. At Marine Elliott's. The realm of fantasy...
...Although the turning of so fanciful a tale into terms of the theatre involves a number of difficulties, the suave and homelike spirit of Morley shines through the transformation, and gives "Thunder on the Left" a pleasant glow in the theatre...
...The others of*the family, impersonated by a strong roster of players, lack the pioneer strength of their progenitors and represent various aspects of character which develop with wealth...
...French Musical Holds Over at Little Carnegie "Mam'zelle Nitouche," the French film version of Melhac and Mil-haud's tuneful operetta of the same name, will continue at the Little Carnegie Playhouse where the picture had its American premiere last Saturday...
...Freddy Mack continues as master of ceremonies and with his New Yorker band offers a new overture...
...left many waiting for its dramatization...
...The house has been planned to offer maximum comfort and convenience, as well as entertainment, to the movie-goers...
...The story is in a sense the converse of James M. Maine's thoughtful and poignant "Dear Brutus...
...Muni and Miss MacMahon are the central points of the story...
...During that period, a pioneer family rises from its shirtsleeves and returns to them in the fourth generation...
...The matriarch of the Nordholm family is Aline Mai Million and Paul Muni plays the son who left home to drive the first beef cattle from Texas to Omaha, thus laying the foundations of his later fortune...
...Besides Jan Kiepura, who was a featured tenor in the Chicago Civic Opera and star of "Be Mine Tonight"—the new Cameo attraction presents the lovely Heather Angel...
...Beckhard feels she should be featured...
...On the screen Ruth Chatterton is storred in "Female," picturizatlon of the novel by Donald Henderson Clarke about a big business woman who made a career of love...
...Carol Stone to Be Featured in "Spring in Autumn" As a reward for her fine work in support of Blanche Yurka and Richard Hale in "Spring in Autumn," Arthur J. Beckhard has decided to feature Carol Stone, Fred Stone's youngest daughter, who is making her first Broadway stage appearance in the Sierra comedy at the Henry Miller Theatre...
...This is due to the newest type of daylight screen end the rear projection feature...
...The realm of fantasy in the theatre is a delightful strolling ground for the imaginative, and the popularity of Christopher Morley's delightful novel "Thunder on the Left" has for a long time (indeed since the days of the Hobohemi-ans of Hoboken...
...I cannot really blame him...
...As Bar-rie sets some oldsters back into the days of their youth, to try to live over again, so Morley carries a lad ahead into an adult world—keeping the heart and the spirit and the mind of a child—to see what things in grown-up land are like...
...at the Strand Paul Muni, nee Muni Weigen-freund, is to be seen on the screen of the Brooklyn Strand Theatre in his first film effort in a year, "The World Changes...
...The performance of all the children in the play is natural and deft...
...Lightning of Fantasy Plays in "Thunder on the Left" FINE FANTASY "THUNDER ON THE LEFT...
...Ruth Chatterton Stars at Fox Brooklyn in "Female"— Diversified Stage Bill On the stage at the Fox Brooklyn Theatre this week Frances Langford, radio and night club songstress' holds the featured spot...
...and urges all his friends to make the same decision...
...The new theatre, devoted to short subjects and news reels, is said to introduce many unique features in theatre construction and projection...
...Returning to childhood, Martin decides never to grow up...
...Paul Muni in "The World Changes" Has First Brooklyn Showing...
...George Brent appears in Miss Chatterton's support, while the rest of the cast of "Female" lists such competent troupers as Lois Wilson, John Mack Brown, Ruth Donnelly, Cavm Gordon, Kenneth Thomson, and others...
...the difficult role of showing the child Martin in a cult body, among grown-ups, is excellently handed by James Bell...
...The World Changes" covers more than seventy years of America, running from a pioneer Dakota territory town, founded by seven people in 1856 to the crash of 1929...
...Farewell to Love," with Jan Kiepura, Opens at the Cameo The English version of "Farewell to Love," with Jan Kiepura, Heather Angel and Betty Stock-field in the leading roles, makes its initial New York appearance at the RKO Cameo Tehatra tonight...
...The bill, in addition, includes several other headline acts...
...New Trans-Lux Theatre Has Many New Features The chain of Trans-Lux theatres, of which Maj.r L. E. Thompson is president, added a new link to its fast growing chain last week when the new Trans-Lux at 60th Stre t and Madison Avenue opened its doors and welcomed a large gathering of distinguished guests, including stars of„the stage and screen and civic officials...
...The very latest type of seats, extra wide, have been installed, aisles are wider than usual, new ventilating systems have been built into the theatre and a special feature is the fact that the interior of the house may be fully or dimly lighted, without detracting from the clearness of the screens image in the slightest degree...
...Miss Stone entered the cast a week ago in the important role of Miss Yurka's daughter and has scored such a personal success that Mr...
Vol. 16 • November 1933 • No. 22
