Picking a Daisy: "She Loves Me Not!" at the 46th St.
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Picking a Daisy: "She Loves Me Not!" at the 46th St. The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley MOUNTAIN OUT OF MANHUNT "SHE LOVES ME NOT," A comedy by Howard Linduay, from the novel by Edward...
...Good Will to Men The great crowd and good start of "Peace on Earth" (to be reviewed next week) should crowd the Civic Repertory Theatre with party benefits, as well as with all thoae interested either in the theatre or in the cause of inter-national good will...
...Heading the short subject program is "Girl Trouble," a two-reel technicolor musical comedy filmed in Hollywood with Frank Mitchell, Jack Durant, Barbara Rogers, Gordon Westcott, Neely Edwards and Harry Pollock...
...Playhouse "Mr...
...Add to this the fact that the senior into whose room the Flagg flies is already engaged to one girl and in the next breath (I mean scene) falls in love with the Dean's daughter, and you begin to glimpse some of the complications that leave you no time to reconsider...
...Zero" of Bowery fame is in the movies...
...Other shorts serve to introduce Lionel Stander, Charles Judels, Shemp Howard and Greta Granstedt in "Pugs and Kisses...
...and the bets are divided between the sailor and the maid...
...At the 46th Street...
...Unwilling to be locked up as a material witness, Curley Flagg wraps a cloak around her lack of dancing-costume, and flees—finding her way to the dormitory of a senior at Princeton (which college will doubtless crowd the week-end trans to 46th Street...
...The first offering is the American premiere of the "Penny Opera" (L'Opera de Quat Sous), introduced in English by "Mr...
...When the college's Dean, investigating the story, meets the gangster and the gang of news-photographers and pretty Curley pretty nude, our interest decidedly does not flag...
...Trying to help her, one brings upon the college an irate wealthy uncle...
...The Organization and Propaganda Committee of the Socialist Party has taken the entire theatre for a benefit, Thursday evening, December 20...
...Four seniors take the lass under their wing of the dorm...
...Not as a news-reel star this time, but as guest-manager of the Fifth Avenue Playhouse, where he is currently in charge of the program as "Moderator of the "Cineforum," "heralding a new era of international good will...
...THE JOLLY TAR "SAILOR, BEWARE...
...known as "King of the Hoboes...
...there is one solemn sailor in the first act who thinks gobs should sometimes turn their minds to politics, economics world affairs...
...Zero" in person and prologued also in English by Dan O'Brien, hobo poet and philosopher, but better...
...And though Dynamite in the end wins without an explosion, the whole evening is a burst of uproarious madcap mirth...
...Admission 5c," a satire on old-time melodramas, and "Torch Song," a vitaphone animated cartoon, completes the program...
...Six stages and a score of scenes lag behind the pace of the action, and the news-reel has to be brought along to catch up the reeling audience...
...another rouses his father to a nation-wide publicity stunt for the firm's new film...
...But while he was on leave a new lassie had come to town...
...they call her "Stonewall' because of her unbroken resistance...
...And when from an upper window, the show-girl falls on the Dean, regretfully we watch the curtain fall on a tornado of madcap merriment...
...With incidental music by Arthur Schwartz and Edward Jleyman...
...Dynamite is the gob—there always is one—no girlie can resist...
...By Ken-yon Nicholson and Charles Robinson...
...but he di'appears (doubtless despatched when he tried to tell it to the marines) and the field is clear for the all-engrossing sailor-subject: sex...
...Settings by Raymond Sovey...
...Havana Widows" Opens at The Brooklyn Strand Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Guy Kibbee, Frank McHugh, Ruth Donnelly and Allen Jenkins appear in "Havana Widows," current at the Brooklyn Warner Strand...
...We hope that "She Loves Me Not" will have a sequel, "She Loves Me," the story of Curley Flagg and the collegians making that Hollywood film...
...Remember, too, that you must reckon on the gangsters who, having got their man, now want to remove the material wit nes...
...his collection of garters would stretch round an elephant's neck...
...The proceeds will be devoted exclusively to propaganda activity and literature...
...At the Lyceum...
...The dialogue of this frank farce is free and easy as air and healthy digestion...
...Those rollicking tar-babies who sail for Uncle Sam have rarely romped more rowdily on the stage than in this Panama week of Dynamite's return...
...Zero's" New Deal prices will prevail—that is nearer zero...
...The benefitted, outside of the audience, are "Mr...
...Zero's" "Old Bucks and Lame Ducks...
...Great jokes from littie fake-horns blow," or words to the effect that out of a show-girl's flight from the scene of a murder Howard Lindsay lets tumble the year's most rapid and most hilarious slap bang rattle-brain farce...
...The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley MOUNTAIN OUT OF MANHUNT "SHE LOVES ME NOT," A comedy by Howard Linduay, from the novel by Edward Hope...
...Mr...
...Zero and "Penny Opera" at 5th Ave...
...a third, being radical, organizes a public parade of sympathizers who march com-munistically upon Princeton from headquarters...
Vol. 16 • December 1933 • No. 24
