Two Queens Make a Full House at the Alvin
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Two Queens Make a Full House at the Alvin The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley POETIC AND POWERFUL PLAY "MARY OF SCOTLAND." By Maxwell Anderson. Third play of the Theatre Guild's...
...It was produced by Cameron Mac-pherson, composer also of' the musical score for the film which has been enthusiastically lauded by Leopold Stokowski...
...and the sad story of the Scotch queen pitted against the stronger Elizabeth lifts the drama —despite the author's lapses from historical precision-With a surge of more than personal issues: when the fate of a people hangs on a person's fortune, the tale is tense...
...Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Frances Dee, and Jean Parker are the Little Women...
...Coupled with a gala program of vaudeville, the combination should be ideal yuletide entertainment...
...DuWorld Pictures, Inc., headed by Irvin Shapiro and Arche Mayers, who have arranged the program, announce that the showing will be made in the Little Carnegie Playhouse Christmas week...
...This is the young Elizabeth, not the assured Larridan of later years, but already a sure and dominant queen, reaching out with implacable fire for England's glory...
...In the second scene England's young ruler tells just what she's going to do to Mary...
...a welcome breath of poetry into the theatre...
...The remainder of the caste includes Paul L u k a s, Douglass Montgomery, Henry Stephenson, John Davis Lodge, Spring Byington, and Nydia Westman...
...27 at 48* St...
...A warm sincerity illuminates the writing and informs the characters...
...and in majesty of presentation and poetry of its dialogue and growth, "Mary of Scotland" is the season's most worthy offering...
...then step by step it all happens...
...Despite this infallibility, however, Elizabeth's plans work toward the gripping moment of the meeting of the two rivals...
...Structurally the play's one serious flaw is the inevitability with which Elizabeth's designs work out...
...Third play of the Theatre Guild's season...
...For the sake of connected story (most "histories" today are episodic on the stage, like the present Maurice Schwartz "Josephus") Anderson has emphasized the love of Mary and the Earl of Bothwell, as dashing a hero (in the hands of Philip Merivale) as the romantic drama may produce—though fading out, unhelpful, when the two queens meet for the climatic close...
...land, back again into the Middle West, and into the Northwest...
...Theatre Cornelia Otis Skinner's annual Broadway aeason will take place this year at the 48th St, Theatre and will begin on Wednesday eve*, ning, December 2/7, according to an-announcement last night...
...Her en* gagement will be limited to three...
...Elizabeth says she will spread slander to such a degree that Mary will doubt her own goodness...
...The program will be headed by "Dawn to Dawn...
...and even this psychological detail is carried out in a moment of tortured self-questioning...
...In that meeting is the drama's most effective moment...
...At the Alvin...
...Two Queens Make a Full House at the Alvin The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley POETIC AND POWERFUL PLAY "MARY OF SCOTLAND...
...Little Women" Holiday BUI at Albee "Little Women," Louisa M. AI-cott's classic of girlhood, now In its sixth week at Radio City, opens st the Albee Theatre, Brooklyn, today...
...Although all the items on this program will be selected because they have been produced independently of the present producing regimes, the films will be of professional caliber...
...Mary of Scotland," In Ita fervor and sweeps, brings...
...and Helen Hayes—though the verdict of the author's history is for Mary—cannot stand against the imperious Elizabeth — England — of Helen Menken...
...The director of the film is Josef Berne...
...Independent Film Snow Opens Down" In Premiere The motion pictures, like their distant relatives painting and sculpture, will soon have an independent show of their own where the film artists who do original, novel and daring Aim masterpieces will have an outlet hitherto denied to their presentations...
...weeks in a repertory of her three-long solo-dramas and her char* acter sketches, after which she will resume her touring schedule which will tske her into New Eng...
...we know that, though Elizabeth conquers in life, the sons of Scotland will have fateful rule over the whole island...
...Cornelius Otis Skinner to Open Broadway Engagement Dec...
Vol. 16 • December 1933 • No. 26
