Miriam Hopkins Makes a Fine Wicked Woman in Jezebel
Miriam Hopkins Makes a Fine Wicked Woman in'Jezebel** The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley BAD GIRL "JEZEBEL." By Owen Davie. At !•¦» Ethel Barrymore. The moet variegated of oar...
...It all occurs In the dear old days befo' de war, when slaves were happier than freed blacks, and white folks down South were almost as happy as slaves...
...And In guessing who killed him, sad seeing Margalo Gillmore set straight, one forgets- for the time—the play's 3vei...
...Ah Miriam Hopkins plays her, a lot of men would think Preston lucky to be going off with her, even to Lepers' Island...
...Margalo Gill mo re a sweet subdued wife...
...1 failings...
...She's a pretty girl, too, and we shan't have Jezebel foolin' roun' with her...
...Owen Davis pulls his piece, and the development af the drama is not much less old-fashioned than the swinging skirts of the sweet ladles that give fragrance to the evening...
...HAYFENNT HIGHLIGHTS Since It seems a sign of sophistication to use a title that has no genuine relat'on to the theme, I laeten to head this review in limllar disguise, Outside of Rs title, the play Woollcott snd Kaufman have concocted Is largely lacking in the sprlghtllness we should expect from them...
...It is I «ed ea a mysterious quasihypnoli power never "xplalned, and hides the key of ita mystery under a false luting in the east of characters...
...This cheating is unfortunate...
...Margaret Hamilton (out of "Another Language") makes a most vivid housekeeper...
...To all except members of the 8.P.C.A...
...Such, at least, is the genial tradition out of which Mr...
...bat in the final bitter test the little Northern Isss lacks the Are and the spunk of the Southern girlie...
...and Julie-Jezebel wins back our hearts in the end...
...Paramount paid a stiff psfj| for the movie rights snd s---.gns| two of ita best men to the let a| translating the unusual story fi the screen—Ernst Lubitscb as M rector snd Ben Hecht as scenarist *On the stage the Paramount *H have another of its diversified pea* grama This time It Is headed by Donald Novia, well-known radii singer...
...Julie, come back to the old plantation after a few years about which, apparently, the less said the better, Is virginal again in her love for Preston Kendrick: lol and behold, he waited but two and a half years of the three, and has brought home from Down Esst a Ysnkee wife...
...Deshaa far Uvlaa" Graces Brooklyn Par a mount Scree*— Deeald Mavis ea Stoue After its two dollar run on Broadway, the Noel Coward picture, "Design for Living," comes to the Brooklyn Paramount, starting today, at popular prices...
...Some expert clowning wiQ be offered by Johnny Lee and ths three other Lees...
...The moet variegated of oar playwrights has turned out a neW vehicle which, through the illness of Tallulah Bank head, haa come to Miriam Hopkins...
...With tho help of the sound directing of Guthrie McClintie, the play moves along, and Miss Hopkins does a pleasing and pretty Job as the bad girl who kills for her love, then goes forth as readily to die for her love...
...for when one gropes for a solution, one dismisses this possibility because of the program listing, then one finds he has been misled...
...Basil Sydney a doubly effective loving brother, and Ernest Milton undoubtedly the most genuinely hated villain of many seasons...
...Set In a background of the theatre, The Dark Toner" rises to s measure of distinction through the quality of the acting, far above that of most melodramas...
...It is a genuine pleasure to see him killed...
...The featured players are Frederic March, Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins sad Edward Everett Hortea, As s play it ran for months in New York...
Vol. 16 • December 1933 • No. 27
