Work As An Aid to Life in the Dramatized "Dodsworth"
Work As An Aid to Life in the Dramatized "Dodsworth" The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley , WATER BETWEEN "DODSWORTH." Hy .Sidney How ard, from the novel by Sinelaii l^wiB. At the...
...Four Sals**" Draws Celebrities—To Continue Indefinitely The lobby of the 44th Street Theatre since the opening of "Four Saints in Three Arts" has taken on the aspect of a Parisian cafe or a London salon...
...and Mrs...
...how the poor gal blunders...
...Ray Heatherton, the Ipana Troubadour, headlines the stage show...
...This resemblance becomes marked during the intermissions, when smoke, acrimonious discussions, and biting epigrams, emanating from such celebrated mouths as Stark Young's, Carl Van Vechten's, Herman Shumlin's, Phillip Mueller's, Ina Claire's, Dorothy Parker's fill the lobby...
...These and many other celebrities in the fields of art, the theatre, music, literature, and society have come to see the Gertrude SteinVirgil Thomson opera repeatedly A partial list of those who have come more than once since the opera opened st the 44th Street Theatre under the sponsorship of Harry Moses: Toscanini, John Mac Cormack, I^awrence Tibbett, William Harris, Henry Potter, Richard De Liagre, Raymond Sovey, Lee Simonson, Lawrence Langner, Armina Marshall, Tullio Carminati, Mr...
...Genevieve Tobin and Donald Cook are in the principal poles, with a supporting cast of stage and screen stars...
...The basic situation is that of the woman who feels herself growing old before she has enjoyed life, going abroad to try desperately to hold on to her youth—and taking with her the wealthy and now retired husband, so that he may begin to "enjoy life" also...
...but whoops...
...Novels filled wiih incidental and detailed background, novels that run through satiric lengths, novels in general hut especially such as these, are hard lo dramatize...
...Ar tlsti aod Models oe AT4>ca Stage— Wheeler Woolsey film 'Artists and Models of 1984," the new Messrs...
...Kirk Askew, Jr., etc...
...Her helpless floundering has us quite sympathetic...
...It opens later than you reckoned...
...We hope you'll print this nest report That "Gentlewoman" 's for the Cort...
...I The Ninth Gwe.t - at Fog IrooMy* New Stage Shaw "The Ninth Guest," Owen Davis' mystery tale, opens at the Fox Brooklyn today...
...Jo Mielziner has given the play some neat settings, and there's no doubt Walter Huston makes a most natural job of Dodsworth...
...That's more than Sinclair I^ewis let Sidney Howard do with the play...
...And we discover wifey going her naive way in quest of sophistica- j lion...
...And it can scarcely be any news to yon, by now, that Stella Adler, Lloyd Nolan and Claudia Morgan play the leading roles...
...Apparently, then, it's a grandfather the babe at home will have to do without, while he builds the trans-Siberian aviation airplanes...
...and Sidney Howard has done valiant work with Sinclair Lewis' "Dods worth...
...here the play fools us: at the last moment hubby Dodsworth ran stand her selfishness no longer, and bark off the home-hound boat he hops to the lady the plot has carefully prepared for him...
...Shubert's carefree revue, occupies the stage, and , "Hips, Hips, Hooray," with Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, is the film feature...
...Bert Walton, Betty Keane, the 24 Merry Maids of Rhythm, and Freddie Berrens and his orchestra complete the stage bill...
...And we discover, of course, that hubby is never really happy unless he is working: I am not quite sure whether the play intends to win sympathy for the dignity and worth of labor (not for the worker, of course, but for the fact that money should not take a man's hand from the figurative plough 1) or whether we are expected to believe Dodsworth would be improved by a study of .Professor Overstreet's new volume, "A Guide to Civilized Loafing...
...we expect her at the end to go back and be a good, contented grandmother...
...Mark "Gentlewoman for the Cort On Thursday night, March twenty- j second.** * The play by John Howard l.awson which the Group Theatre is presenting in association with D. A. Doran, Jr...
...Some columns made a minor tort...
...It has, so Nathan Zatkin snnounrhes, become a rendezvous for the cognoscenti and the town's choicest spirits...
...At the Shubert...
...The result is a swift moving, synopsis like tale, but with condensation that brings out the triter aspects of the situation, emphasizes the coincidences, 'and leaves the characters undeveloped and superficial...
...Triolet for "Geavtewamao" Mark "Gentlewoman"* for the Cort On Thursday night, March twentysecond...
Vol. 17 • March 1934 • No. 10
