Katharine Hepburn Comes Back to Broadway in "The Lake"
Katharine Hepburn Comes Back to Broadway in "The Lake" ' GROVE INTO LAKE -1 HE LAKE," by Dorothy Matgingham and Murray Mat-Donald At the Martin Beck. The authore of "The Lake" have keen...
...danger of squeaks and shrieks instead of language...
...Cookie" Bowers, The Six Danwills, The Twenty-four Carlos Romero Girls and Stan Mayers and his orchestra complete the stage show...
...and only the falling curtain prevents er from finding its depths...
...at 60th St., are now the only houses in New York City that present a news reel and short subject program, and business is said to be capacity afternoons and evenings since the closing of the Embassy News Reel Theatre...
...24 Alfred de Liagre, Jr., is directing "By Your Leave," the new play by Gladys Hurlbut and Emma Wells which he and Richard Aldrlrh will present at the Morosco Theatre on January 24...
...Dorothy Gish, Howard Lindsay and Kenneth MacKenna head the cast...
...Eight Girls in a Boat" will be the screen attraction...
...There are those who will continue to prefer Miss Hepburn in the films...
...So far, a likely enough story...
...By Candlelight" Brightens Fax Brooklyn's Screen— Oumansky Stage Show "Candlelight," the successful Broadway hit by Siegfried Greyer, is current as the feature film attraction at the Fox Brooklyn Theatre...
...Paul Nolan, "The Jesting Swede," and the Fox Rhythm Quintette complete the stage bill...
...Ronnie, Van and Kamplain...
...Stars too numerous to mention are heralded for this worth while event...
...The authore of "The Lake" have keen guilty of the error frequent in America's most noted dramatist of homplicating the situation far beyond its needs, straining to pack incidents into a plot that already has a good basis to grow on...
...and Madison Ave...
...likelihood is lost in excitement, and a possible tragedy becomes a crowded melodrama...
...The Three X Sisters are the feature of the stage show...
...The play is chiefly alluring, to many, as the vehicle for Katharine Hepburn's return to the stage, which she left with memories of a competent performance in "The Warrior's Husband...
...But this girl who needs a man so much, on the day of her marriage discovers that she truly loves her husband—and an hour later, as they flee the wedding guests, an automobile accident that leaves her unharmed kills him...
...Little Old New York" is the stage presentation, directed by Alexander Oumansky, and featuring Freddie Berrens and his Columbia Broadcasting Music Masters...
...and comes back to a cinema sensation...
...and New York, which is universally known for its response to worth while causes, will, as usual make this event a success in every way...
...The result is that character development is sacrificed to story...
...The list is headed by Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou and Mary Astor...
...The lake that has spread where trees once were takes him...
...But she has to come on the stage overwrought, without time to work the audience to a similar mood, suppressed excitement tends to raise the pitch of the voice, and if a touch of nervousness push it higher, there is...
...Eddie Cantor Boys' Camp Benefit at New Amsterdam What promises to be one of the outstanding entertainments of the season will be presented at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Sunday evening, February 11, when Eddie Cantor will stage the annua...
...The special attraction is Bradley and Jerome, creators of special stage dances and the authors of George Raft's new numbers soon to be seen in Paramount's "Bolero...
...28 All Broadway will be on parade to do their share for New York's tubercular poor when the Milk and Egg League Benefit will be held at the New Amsterdam Theatre Sunday evening, January 28...
...B. F. "By Your Leave" Due Jan...
...Isn't she wonderful...
...The daughter—true to type—is swept into love with an unworthty fellow, already married...
...Convention City" Opens at Brooklyn Strand One of the largest casts ever assembled for a single picture will be seen in "Convention City" which opens today at the Brooklyn Warner Strand Theatre...
...Guy Kibbee, Frank McIIugh, Ruth Donnelly, Hugh Herbert, Grant Mitchell, Gordon Westcott and Huey White are other members of the cast...
...Benefit for Tubercular Poor at New Amsterdam Jan...
...Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Nils Asther, Dorothy Revier, Esther Ralston and Lawrence Grant are members of the cast...
...Eight Girls in a Boat"—New Stage Show at Brooklyn Paramount The Paramount Theatre, Brooklyn, announces that the first of the 1934 crop of Paramount Studio | pictures will be shown this week...
...The story by Peter Milne deals with riotous happenings during a salesmen's convention at Atlantic City...
...Excellent basis for a play lies in the sensitive but weak Henry Surrege, his blandly dominating and callous wife, the daughter who blends their faults, and a few spectators, like Henry's astute sister (admirably played by the returning Blanche Bates...
...Do-Re-and-Mi, singers of Radio Land...
...Trans-Lux Theatres, Home of News Reels and Short Subjects, Only Ones In City The Trans-Lux Theatres, Broadway and 49th St...
...Al Bayes and Harvey Speck...
...And I must admit that, right behind me, an ecstatic couple kept repeating, "Isn't she wonderful...
...benefit performance for his Boys' Camp...
...Dorothy Wilson, Douglas Montgomery, Kay Johnson and Walter Connolly have the I leading roles...
...More than one hundred of the leading stars of the stage, radio and the screen^-will appear...
...The program lasts a little over an hour...
...Blanche Bates, Frances Starr, Lionel Pape, Colin Clive, all do excellent jobs, and the large cast helps keep things stirring...
...she finds strength enough to arrange her own marriage in an effort to break the bond...
Vol. 17 • January 1934 • No. 2
