Casual Caviar a Good Dish in "Oliver Oliver"
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Casual Caviar a Good Dish in "Oliver Oliver" The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley PITHY PLEASANTRY "OLIVER {OLIVER," by Paul Otborn. At the Playhouse, They are queer folk, those...
...The Three Sailors," comedy act recently starred in Earl Carroll's "Vanities," appear as the headline act...
...These 26 human and fcOC wooden performers put on an excellent show...
...Produced on a big scale, the film is a drama in which the tense atmosphere of war-time becomes the | background against which are focused the perils of individuals, the hazardous activities of spies and the chaotic love story of two desperate people...
...The plot gives no sense of the banter and persiflage that pervade this play...
...He gets out of this by a carefully staged insult...
...On the stage the Roxy Theatre this week presents its new Master of Ceremonies, Rube Wolf, who presides over the variety show and leads his musicians through new pacea...
...At the Playhouse, They are queer folk, those gathered for the week-end at Constance Oak shut 's...
...War Him wit* Cant of MtrmMmd Acton, Opens at the toxy—Rube Wolf-Three Sailors oa Stage "I was a Spy" is the featured screen attraction this week at the Koxy...
...but credit is tightening, and soon the young man will have to marry for money...
...They live in luxury without means...
...PICCOLI—PICK O' THE PUPPETS Podrecea't "THE PICCOLI" — Marionettes at the Hudson...
...Ann Andrews, in a Mary Boland role as hostess, spends the week-end insulting all her guests—except, of course, the wealthy Ohioan, The sor...
...the story he begins to write is a gem 1 With less substance than "The Vinegar Tree," by the same author, "Oliver Oliver" has qualities that make it light but intelligent entertainment...
...and the oldest are Constance herself and her son, double Oliver...
...The filmf which has a cast of internationally famous players, is a Pox Film presentation based on the war-time experiences of Martha McKenna, who made her espionage work the subject of a best-selling autobiography of the same title...
...Their language does not permit these Italian players to give any subtle satires, such as the Yale Puppeteers present, but in the universal language of the puppet-show the Piccoli are unsurpassed...
...Irene Dunne-dive ¦rook oa Albee Screen — Jeanie Lang Tops Now Stage Skew Irene Dunne tnd Clive Brook are brought together as a co-starring team in "If I Were Free," now at the RKO Albee...
...Betty Boop and the Big Bad Wolf, the unparalNed pianist: all these creatures are more convincing than humans, and more entertaining...
...Madeleine Carroll, Herbert MarI shall and Conrad Veidt have the I leading roles...
...Josephine Baker in her Tropical Revue, the bull fight, the humor and sentiment of "Old Vienna," the condensation of Mozart's opera "Don Juan," the acrobat who swings far out over the audience...
...In some of its unusual sequences, the picture reveals the first discovery of chemical warfare (.nd the attempt of Allied spies to prevent its use, an air raid in the early days of 1915, the apprehension of the spies, their court martial and the ultimate sacrifice of one of the Allies' most valuable espionage agents...
...I Wen a Spy...
...Then iron Oliver is free to marry for love—the same girl...
...so his mother hat to take on, as husband number three or four—after the start, she says, they all taste alike—the richest man in Ohio...
...Before they go back to Italy, delight yourself with the Piccoli...
...is a peculiar mixture of carefree indifference to the burdens of life and of sensitive response to its beauties...
...Appearing with Brook and Miss Dunne are Vivian Tobi.i, Henry Stephenson, Laura Hope Crews, The vaudeville half of the progrant boasts of little Jeanie Lang, radio's cute personality, who it making her Brooklyn debut here this week, Barto and Mann, the fun kings, one six foot four inches and the other four feet eleven, share the headline honors with the petite radio star, on the new bill at the Albee...
...The Gae Foster girls are seen in ballet and precision routines...
Vol. 17 • January 1934 • No. 2