Dinner At 8 Makes Film Bow at the Reopened Astor
"Dinner At 8" Makes Film Bow at the Reopened Astor pk turned from Last Season's Suaa 9mm Film Has Many Big Stan Never in the history of the screen has a cast of the magnitude of "Dinner at...
...And that is the acJWns of Leon Leonidoff, the young Russian, who is at the head of S. L Rothafel's production staff...
...Dinner At 8" Makes Film Bow at the Reopened Astor pk turned from Last Season's Suaa 9mm Film Has Many Big Stan Never in the history of the screen has a cast of the magnitude of "Dinner at Bight" been pretested to the film public...
...He Just *¦* 8nd the right American *ords to express his happiness...
...Imitation of Life," new Fannie Hurst novel...
...Walls of Gold...
...It has gotten so, in fact, that "Roxy" himself has picked up a lot of Russian from listening to them...
...Inspiration from within is one thing, but when «*> is able to look out into the •sditorium and see crowded houses BP Thursday opening to Wednesaight closing—well, that's real ***h*ation...
...Paris on Parade" New Fu...
...Second is the Fox stage show, headed this week by Harriett Lee, radio's "it" girl, and her Melody Boys...
...Among the Universal pictures that will be shown during the forthcoming year are "Only Yesterday," from the novel by Frederick Lewis Allen...
...Lilian Harvey's picture, "My Lips Betray," with John Boles and El Brendel, and "Charlie Chan's Greatest Case," another in the series of Earl Deer Biggers stories, with Warner Oland and Heather Angel...
...Voice of Experience Tops Stage Show at Fox Brooklyn— Lew Ayree on Screen The Fpx Brooklyn Theatre this week is presenting a new stage and screen show...
...There's one unfailing sign of hsppiness and content backstage at we Music Hall, ad that has been "•n several times within the week jut closed...
...Why, beavers are comparative sloths compared to them...
...And is that "Roxy" gang happy...
...Topping the other attractions is the Voice of Experience, radio feature, making his first theatrical appearance in the Metropolitan area...
...Lucie Delza, noted stylist, has been engageo as fashion directress, and will appear in person ai every .performance and will offer up to the minute fashion comment...
...From the Fox company the Roxy will have a selection of films, among which are included the new James Dunn and Sally Eilers picture, "Jimmy and Sally...
...Here we have Marie Dressier as a flamboyant retired musical comedy star, John Barrymore as a "has keen" matinee idol now penniless and on the verge of suicide, Wallace Beery as a vulgar but powerful millionaire, Jean Harlow as his cheating wife, Lionel Barrymore as a shipbuilder facing business catastrophe, Lee Tracy as a Broadway theatrical agent, Edmund Lowe as a society doctor with a weakness for his feminine patients...
...Don't Bet On Love," the screen feature, was directed and written by Murray Roth...
...Radio City Music Hall: One hundred and fifty thousand people, when the average population of American cities is well under 100,000...
...For J»ry time things are going well won has a habit of reverting to ,he Russian language...
...The result is that almost any j*v this week you conld have seen him conversing with' M. Vodnoy, Michael Voljanin, Hilda Eckler, Alexander Ancharoff, Ludmilla Selimoff, Ina Korsch, Thaisa Got kova, Isaha Bernardi or any number of other Russians in the production staff or the stage ensembles...
...Mme...
...The story concerns a din¦ aer at which a varied group tl people are invited, and the individual adventures which befall each between the time of the invitation and the event...
...Fourth it the selection of a local girl to represent the Borough as "Miss Brooklyn" in the finals of the International Beauty Pageant in New York...
...The picture is based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, which ran on Broadway for more than a year...
...The froup in "Grand Hotel" fades by comparison with the list of stars in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's cinema version of the Broadway play his, which opened last Wednesday evening at the Astor Theatre...
...Jean Hersholt, Karen Morley, Louise Closser Hale, Phillips Holmes, and May Sobson...
...Radio City Music Hall Forges Ahead—Plays to RecordBreaking Crowds There is a tradition in the theatre that August is the worst month in' the year—that the summer doldrums reach their zenith then—but you'd never realize it at Radio City Music Hall, where something just under 150,000 persons have thronged within its massive portals in one week...
...Third on the list is the Aim feature—Lew Ayres and Ginger Rogers in "Don't Bet On Love...
...Through the co-operation of leading manufacturers, importers and specialty shops, furt from all parts of the wold in the latest fall and winter styles will be shown on the stage by mannequins at every performance...
...From "Boxy" himself and Leon Leonidoff, his production manager, down to the variest stage assistant the entire organisation seem to be forg¦f on as never before to better •nd better things...
...Each star in "Dinner at Eight" has a big scene with the various tub-plots woven into one grand climax...
...The AilAmerican Girl," "Blossom Time," 'The Great Ziegfeld," "That's Gratitude," and "The Left Bank," famous Elmer Rice play...
...ROXY THEATRE SIGNS CONTRACTS WITH FOX FILM AND UNIVERSAL FOR CHOICE OF FILMS FOR YEAR For the first time in its history, the original Roxy Theatre will have the select choice of motion pictures for an entire year fro.n two of America's leading motion picture producing companies as the result of contracts signed by Howard S. Cullman of the Roxy Theatre and John Clark, representing Fox Film Corporation and James R. Grainger of Universal Film Corporation...
...These negotiations between the Roxy and Fox and Universal assure the 7th Avenue playhouse of presenting an unbroken series of first-run motion pictures for a period of fifty-two weeks...
...Fashion Show on Roxy Stag* A fashion show known as "°aris on Parade" vill be featured on the stage of the original Roxy Theatre for the entire week starting today...
...In the supporting catt are Henry Armetta, Shirley Grey, Charles Grapewin and Merna Kennedy...
...And more: Billie Burke as a rich hostess, Madge Evans as her daughter, engaged to one man but in love with another...
...the new Jesse Lasky production, "The Worst Woman in Paris...
Vol. 16 • August 1933 • No. 9
