"Captured"-"Voltaire"-Open Warner's New Season
"Captured"-"Voltaire"—Open Warner's New Season "Captured" Stars Lesli Howard and Fairbanks Jr.-"Voltaire" with George Arliss With "Captured" at the Strand Theatre, and George Arliss in •Voltaire"...
...And those who are best entitled to judge agree that :t paints a true picture...
...Moonlight and Pretzels" features a cast headed by Leo Carillo, Mary Brian, Roger Pryor, Alexander Gray, Lillian Miles, Bernice Claire, the Frank and Milt Britton Band, the Four Eton Boys, Herbert Raw-linson, and Jack Denny and his orchestra...
...The character of Voltaire is one which George Arliss has long wished to play, and it takes its place with the other historical characters which he has portrayed on the screen, Disraeli and Alexander Hamilton...
...Dusty Shoes," by Jay (Jorney and E. Y. Harburg, who turned out the highly successful "Brother Can You Spare a Dime," is a dramatic cavalcade of American life from 192H to 393.3...
...Captured" is not an ordinary war picture...
...Sunday, Willem van Hoogstraten •oaducts the Philharmonic Sym-Ihony in a program consisting of the Schumaann Fourth Symphony h D minor, the Bach Brandenburg Concerto No...
...The lanchnn and Marco staj show is headed by the person appearance df Jeannic Lang, rad and movie star...
...Theatre will show the first episoc of the new and further "Advei turt'S of Tarzan the Fearless starring Ituster Crsbbe...
...At least three of the numtjcrs in the score may be said to be descriptive of the present American .scene...
...Gold Diggers" SUys on at I Brooklyn Strand In order to slford tho.se patrons who have been unable to see "Gold Diggers of 1933" during the past four we<'k8 at the Brooklyn Warner Strand Theatre an opportunity, the management is holding the all-star musical hit over for ii fifth consecutive week...
...As added screen attractions the Fox offers an Andy Clyde shoit titled "Loose Relations" and a Mickey Mouse cartoon...
...Dinner at Eight" Due on Astols Screen Neat Week "Dinner at Eight," picturizatio of the George S. Kaufman Edn Ferber stage success, with a ca of stellar names said to be tl largest evei assembled for a scrot production, will have its premie Wodnesday evening, August 23, the Astor Theatre...
...and, Ighting single-handed, Voltaire won triumph after triumph for liberalism and true civilization, and paved the way for the later progress of democracy after the convulsions of the French Revolution...
...Leslie Howard and Douglas Fairbanks Jr...
...Kecler, Dick Powell, (Juy KiblR'C, 1 Ned Sparks, Aline MacMahon, Ginger Rogers and t'larence Nord-.strom...
...It is called "I Gotta Get Up and Go to Work" and depicts various types ri.sing in tho morning and preparing for their jobs in offices, factories and stores...
...It deals with a new phase of tho war—new, that is, to the .screen...
...So are Bill Aaronson, late star of Paul Whitenian's unit, and his company...
...Moonlight and Pretzels," the title song of the picture and also a Gorney-llarburg number, is the 1933 model drinking song...
...In add tion to "Blarney Kiss" the Rox...
...Freddy Mack, the new Fox j master of ceremonies, holds over for another week to conduct the stage show...
...Buster Shaver and his Tinytown Tots, Olive and (Jeorge, are among the headliners...
...The completed cast is as follows: liora Baxter, Cissie Loftus, Edward Crandall, J. W. Austin, Nita Naldi, Betty Linley, Charles Dalton, Reginald ('arrington, Margot Stevenson, Kenneth Manners, Olive Reeves-Smith, Winifred Harris, Jane Corcoran, May Marshall, Nelly Malcolm, IJrenda Forbes, Wilfred Jes-sop, Edward Broadley, Margaret Anderson, Elizabeth Dewing, Mary lleU-rden, Paddy Reynolds, Ilden Glenn, Arthur Porter, Bernard Jukes, Dan Thew Wright, Storrs Haynes...
...Men who were prisoners in such camps, other men who served in them as soldiers in the Gefman Army, were consulted in the production of the picture, and many of them took part in the scenes when they were filmed...
...Voltaire" with (leorge .\rliss There have been other battles — victorious liattles—with intolerance One of them was waged by Voltaire in the eighteenth century against all the bigotry, prejudice and unfair discrimination of the French court of Louis XV...
...Jed Dooley, Ernest Miick and Margery LaRuc, the Fox Jtliythm Girls, and the Blue Rililxjn Band provides the incidental melody for the show, in addition to a melange of current "hit" songs played as a band presentation...
...A Party" Starring Mrs...
...are the stars of the fUm, with a supporting cast in-clwUng Margaret Lindsay, Paul Lukas, Philip Faversham, Robert Barrat and many other players...
...Moonlight and Pretzels" at the Rialto Has Tuneful Melodies and Song Hits Composed Dy four of America's ace songsmiths, the tuneful melodies in "Moonlight and Pretzels," Universal's backstage musical romance, opening at the Rialto Theatre on Monday, August 21.st, is said to reflect the spirit of the times in a manner unique for screen musical comedy...
...The Big Brain," on the screen, depicts the adventures in the realm of Big Business and romance of "Max the BarlK'r," whose story only yesterday was .'¦houted from newspaper headlines...
...The picture is based upon a story entitled "Fellow Prisoners" by Sir Philip Gibbs, the well known English war correspondent and novelist...
...Herman Hupfeld, comjKiser of "Let's Turn Out the Lights and Go to Sleep," has written a sequel to that song, dramatizing the new spirit of the people in regard to work...
...She is still in her 'teens but u finished stage (MTformer nevertheless...
...2 in 0 for strings, Delibes' Suite from "Sylvia," Havel's "U Valse," and the pre •»ds and finale to Wagner's "Tri-•tan and Isolde...
...The prison eamps of wartime Germany, when the spirit of Prus-¦ianism ruled over hapless officers., and men of the Allied and American armies, form the setting of "Captured...
...In addition to the headline' Jeannie Lang, the Roxy stage sho this week also includes Four and Half Arleys, Shea and IUyraon( l8al)el Ku'll, Marguerite and Lero,\ and the Argentine Dancers...
...W. J. McLaughlin, manager of the .Strand, rejiorts that many of his patrons have been bo didightcd with the picture that they have seen the jiicture over and over again...
...Pat Campbell, Due Wednesday William A. Itrady in association with .Samuel Nirdlinger announces the New York premiere of Ivor .Novello's comedy "A Party," in which Mrs...
...Big Brain"-Sylvia Froos Dual Attractions at Fox Brooklyn An eight-act stage show beaded by Sylvia Froos, and the RKO-Radio picture, "The llig Brain," with (Jeorge E. Stone, Fay Wray and Phillips Holmes, are the twin attractions this week nt tiie I''ox Brooklyn Theatre...
...Miss Froos has lie<ii one of ladio'.s successful yuuii),' newcomers, for whom great tilings are predicted...
...Another item < this week's program is the Beau Pageant, which t)eKinK Mcmd night, August 21, and contlnu for five nights up to and includii Friday, August 25...
...Rivoli Ke'ipening Now August ; To allow for more exlensi\ renovation the opening of ll Kivoli 'l'h"slre has been |)oKt|M(ne until Wednesday, August 2...
...O that daU- Noel Coward's populi operetta "Hitter .Sweets" will i the first atlrnclion of the ne season's program of new picture...
...Anthony John, stage director for Ivor Novello, has staged the piece and Livingston Piatt has designed the settings...
...Patrick Campbell is starring, for next Wwlnesday evening, August 23, at the Playhouse...
...The Blarney Kiss"-"Tarzan" On Koxy Screen...
...Captured"-"Voltaire"—Open Warner's New Season "Captured" Stars Lesli Howard and Fairbanks Jr.-"Voltaire" with George Arliss With "Captured" at the Strand Theatre, and George Arliss in •Voltaire" scheduled for the Holly-^rood Theatre next Tuesday, Warier Bros, auspiciously inaugurate their new fall season with two highly praised films...
...Stadioin Concerts Drawing to a Clow The final days of the Stadium •oncerta bring an opera performance of "Butterfly" on Monday, Willem van Hoogstraten's last concert on Tuesday, and the return of Jose Itnrbi in the dual role •f guest conductor and pianist on .Wednesday, the closing night...
...In the all star cast are Warren William, Joan Blondell, Ruby...
...The case of Jean Calas, the hounded and persecuted man whose case was taken up vigorously and] whose helpless family were defended by Voltaire, forms the plot of the fdm, in which Doris Kenyon, Margaret Lindsay, Reginal Owen, Theodore Newton and other well known screen players support George Arliss when he appears in "Voltaire" at the Hollywood Theatre...
...In "Moonlight and Pretzels" the composers have followed the precept of the fellow who s.iid "I^et me but write the .songs of a nation and I care not who makes its laws...
...Every effort has been made to reproduce with perfect authenticity the details of an actual German war prison camp...
...New Diversified Stage Show The oriirinal Roxy Theatre thi week is presenting (he America premiere of "The Blarney Ki»« following a successful un e twelve weeks in Ix)ndon...
Vol. 16 • August 1933 • No. 8
