The SifWs "Midnight" -Roxy's New Film Offering
The SifWs "Midnight" -Roxy's New Film Offering Famous Theatre Gaild Play jfewTsj Talkie Fern with Well Known Cost of Player* Well known personalities of (roadway and Hollywood on stage aad...
...Peace on Earth" in Last Week "Peace on Earth," the anti-war play presented by the Theatre Union at the Civic Repertory Theatre, will close on March 17, it has been announced hy Charles R. Walker, of the executive board...
...The story of their rise from the Ghetto of Frankfort to a position of international importance is unrivaled in the annals of success stories...
...On the stage, Anmdn, Mexican dancer, and Wesley Eddy, the Roxy's new master of ceremonies, head a new revue...
...A distinguished cast of Broadway stars is seen in "Midnight...
...Only one week remains for seeing this production of America's only professional workers' theatre...
...Arliss plays a dual role in the production...
...He is flrst seen as Maier Amschel, founder of the Rothschilds, and then as Nathan, most illustrious of the clan...
...Edward G. Robinson In "Dark Haxard" al) B'klyn Strand "Dark Hazard," which is current at the Brooklyn Warner Strand Theatre, stars Edward G. Robinson...
...No page of history is more glamorous than that in which the Rothschilds played an important part, the conquest of Napoleon, nor is there any family with so rich a background as that possessed by the Rothschilds...
...Its latest manifestation is the new (ieorge Arliss starring production, "The House of Rothschild," which Joseph M. Schenrk and Darryl Zanuck are presenting under the banner of Twentieth Century Pictures and which will open for an extended run at the Astor Theatre Wednesday evening, March 14...
...Long Heralded and Much Discussed...
...Arliss as his wife, and a large cast of other prominent players...
...The SifWs "Midnight" -Roxy's New Film Offering Famous Theatre Gaild Play jfewTsj Talkie Fern with Well Known Cost of Player* Well known personalities of (roadway and Hollywood on stage aad screen make this an attractive week at the Koxy Theatre...
...Dark Hazard" presents a unique triangular love affair, having for its feminine lead Genevieve Tobin and Glenda Parrel...
...Other players in the cast are Sidney Fox, Margaret Wych•rly, Lynn Overman, Katherine Wilson, Richard Whorf, Humphrey Bogart, Granville Bates, Cora Witherspoon, Moffat JohnBton, Hy...
...O'Neill, and Helen Flint...
...An im posing cast of the theatre's great, Iff hiding Henry Hull, O. P. Heggie, Margaret Wycherly, Sidney Fox and Lynn Overman, appear in Chester Krskin's "Midnight," the cinema version of the famous Theatre Guild play...
...Arllss...
...to Open at Astor Theat...
...Henry Hull, dramatic star of "To hacco Road," appears as a newspaper reporter assigned to study the reactions of the foreman of a Jury, played by O. P. Heggie, who has condemned a woman to the electric chair...
...Wednesday The movies continue to be the historian of the masses...
...with Geo...
...In an atmosphere of suspense, the story moves to a startling but inevitable conclusion...
...He is supported hy an admirable cast in* eluding Boris Karloff as Baron Lediantz, his Prussian enemy, I.oretta Young as his daughter, Helen West ley as his mother, C. Aubrey Smith as the Duke of Wellington, George Renavent as Talleyrand, Mrs...
...The House of loth, schild...
...Dealing with a group of Negro longshoremen on the picturesque wharveB of the Mississippi River at New Orleans, "Stevedore" shows the use of lynching and terror to break up any attempt of black workers to organize against low wages and exploitation...
...The picture was directed by Chester Erskin from the play by Claire and Paul Sifton...
...Based on the nobel zy W. R. Burnett, author of "Little Caesar," which also had Robinson as the main character...
...Casting has already begun for the Theatre Union's second play, ".Stevedore," which will open the middle of April...
...Miriam Hopkins on Stage at Brooklyn Paramount Miriam Hopkins, stage and screen •tar, brings her charm to the stage at the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre beginning today, in addition to "Six of a Kind," the latest comedy which brings Charlie Ruggles, Mary Boland, W. C. Fields, Alison Skipworth, and Burns and Allen to the screen...
...The action centers around the night of the execution in the home of an average American family who, by a twist of fate, are hurled into a vortex of overwrought emotions...
Vol. 17 • March 1934 • No. 10
