The Theatrical Pot Simmers Before the New Season
The Theatrical Pot Simmers Before the New Season Holding Over The summer season this year is busier than ever—out of town. From Chicago, 111., to Skow began, Me., with many points in...
...Inge's play, expressive of our country and our times, is a study of social conditions and conflicts as seen through the eyes of a typical American family through a period of several decades...
...Two days after this farce, the only musical left from last season came to town...
...H:;i0, "Three Voices," vocal trio...
...Jewish Event* of the Week...
...To ill title question, the play "Are iYo# Decent...
...8:45, I'orriKii AITuIrs Forum...
...The production, scenery, cast and costumes are reported to be identical with those of the famous Savoy Theatre Company of London, where the D'Oyly Carte Company has been given Gilbert and Sullivan for over half a century...
...Pinafore," "Trial by Jury," "The Mikado," "Yeomen of the Guard" and "Ruddigore...
...5:45 p.m., "Three Voice*" vocal trio...
...Other Gilbert and Sullivan favorites scheduled during the season are Iolanthe," "H.M.S...
...Not even Fanny Brice's burlesque of it is more hilarious than this rowdy, bawdy, bawling farce of life and love in the navy...
...WEVD «M1*> Sun...
...Thus both audiences and artists receive opportunities of a stimulating nature...
...Gilbert and Sullivan Season by D'Oyly Carte - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company will inaugurate a season of Gilbert and Sullivan at the Martin Beck Theatre on Monday, Sept...
...10:IS, .luck Salman, baritone...
...Collette Lyons, who bills herself as "Static...
...10, " V11 hi i, nn ((evolutions," < Ira n in lie sketch...
...j Brooklyn Strand for a Big Autumn i . j The first two great hits of the '"Greater Show Season" opens a v.eek's engagement at the Brooklyn ' Strand Theatre...
...Wed...
...Mann, Robinson and Martin in dance festival and the Three Swifts in a "Grand Slam...
...Frl—5:3(1 p.m., William M. IVItfenhnuin, The New Leader llevlew...
...It is typical, by the way, that the one radical in the play disappears as soon as he tries seriously to "tell it to the marines...
...This week's offering is Lenore Ulric in "Julie" a play with music by Frederic Arnold Kummer, also headed for Broad\vay...
...The second hit is "Side Streets," story of a woman's great love which is in conflict with lesser loves, and has for Its star Aline MacMahon, with Paul Kelly taking the masculine lead...
...He depends more on story, situation, characterization, and dialogue, rather than on the fast-running gag sequences so familiar in Lloyd pictures...
...10:15, "Three Oneeiu," vocal trio...
...8:45, Ann Howard, hlues singer...
...The Pine Grove Players is nn adjunct of Unity House, which in the last several years has been a mecca for prominent artists, actors, v,liters and musicians, presenting the creative works of these people in the spirit of the Malvern or Ann Arbor festivals...
...Man.—8 a.m...
...Norman Lloyd is staging the production and Ted Gravenson is designing the sets...
...Tun.—H-.'.W p.m...
...Harold Lloyd Returns After two years' absence, Harold Lloyd has returned to the screen in "The^ Cat's Paw," now at the Radio City Music Hall...
...The cast supporting Miss Wynyard is one of the most remarkable ever gathered in one film, rivalling the star .studded roster which interpreted "Grand Hotel," "Only Yesterday" and "Counsellor at Law...
...10:10, lii111 Friedman, pianist...
...I'lne Grove Concert Series...
...10, Hrntlrik de LeeUW, "The Iloyal Dutch Traveler...
...While a number of them are depending upon Broadway successes and Broadway stars, in circuit through the summer, a good many are reaching out to untried plays or untried playwrights, already scheduled for Broadway or hoping to attract the wary (if not weary) manager, These plays will give us much to 'talk of in the months iMfe'1 to come...
...S pin., Sol (ilskln, violinist...
...f0{!5, Henry niul Dilward Peterson, violin ami zither...
...The oldest of these is "Sailor, Beware...
...1 o: 1 ¦. M:n> Ollii Lochren, soprano...
...J Let her come...
...Colin Clive, Lionel Atwill, Frank Law ton, Mrs...
...10:45, House Jameson, poetry...
...The Shape of Things" at Unity House, August 19 Added to the cast of Benson Inge's new play, "The Shape of Things," which is featuring Roland Drew and John Boyd, are Lee Ellsworth, Leota Diesel, Joseph Lerner and Istar Barzel...
...pin mi duo...
...10, StrliiK Kniemlile...
...Galsworthy and Diana Wynyard at the RKO-Albee John Galsworthy's last novel, "One More River," starring Diana Wynyard, will be seen at the RKO Albee Theatre this week...
...With Clifton Webb, Helen Broderick, Dorothy Stone and Ethel Waters, and a colorful and sprightly chorus, it deserves place with the best revues of recent years...
...Thori—8 p. in., Marie SchneiderStuiifk, pianist...
...Features of the Week on tllWKe...
...Jane Wyatl of the New York stage, Henry Stephenson, Reginald Denny and Kathleen Howard comprise the featured players...
...both plays., being destined for early Broadway presentations...
...The first hit is ("Personality Kid," romance of the j price ring, with a strong all-star , cast, headed by Pat O'Brien, Glenda i Farrell and Claire Dodd...
...The Cat's Paw," written by Clarence Buddington Holland and published in the Saturday Evening Post, marks a radical change in the Lloyd Btyle of comedy...
...but this sort of thing seems to please summer visitors to the big city...
...Patrick Campbell...
...p.m., Medical Information Hour...
...Three for Broadway Ivan E. Cedar has accepted a comedy, "Complete Control," by Jane Miller Smylie, for the last production of the season in his Drama Festival at the John H. Hessel Memorial Hall, Woodmere, L. I., the week of August 27th, and following "Wide Horizons" by E. R. Carter next week...
...She Loves Me Not" at the 46th Theatre romps all over several levels of the stage and several levels and aspects of social life, from night club singers and gangstefS to movie magnates and ¦college deans, with a continuous stream of nonsensible farradiddle...
...This is the play which is being tried out by the Pine Grove Players at Forest Park, Pa., on Sunday evening, August 19, prior to its fall showing on Broadway...
...might have to answer No...
...Of these, all are English with exception of Miss Wyatt, who makes her screen debut in "One More River," and for whom Carl Laemmle, Jr., has great starring plans...
...You can count on ohc hand the plays holding over from their •springtime success...
...7:15, String F.nsrmhle...
...Among those who have appeared at this colony art Alia Nazimova, Toscha Seidel, David Pinski, Jacob Ben Ami, Molly Picon, Rose McClendon, Frank Wilson, the Compinsky Trio, the Hal...
...3, with "The Gondoliers" in the first part of the week and "Cox and Box" and "The Pirates of Penzance" the latter part of the week...
...As Thousands Cheer" is as lively sum mer fare as it was fun for the winter...
...T&eantime the many theatres of the Great White Way, except as the movies have invaded them, are in tho main a heavy burden of real estate...
...Radio's foremost funsters, "The Radio Tuber," featuring Rufe Davis...
...The plot revolves around a sedate and matronly shopkeeper, who falls in love with a much younger sailor, marries him and then fights to keep him, in spite of the wiles of attractive women, one of them her own young niece...
...It looks like a good season eomI ing, with a fair sprinkling of j serious plays among the usual big 'crop of comedies and musicals...
...Thi change, however, is said by previewers not to have resulted in a diminishing of the laughter qualities of his picture, but the results aie obtained in a more legitimate way...
...5:30 p.m., Metropolitan String Quartet...
...Who's afraid of I the big bad city...
...8, The National Huiliotoriul Hoard...
...James Barton, who has replaced Henry Hull in the cast, continues the excellent character portrayed in this study of the shiftless "poor white trush" of the South," comic on the surface, tragic in its implications...
...h.'iii, Moulin Sulxcilo, poetry...
...Outside of "Dodsworth," which reopens next Monday at the Shubert with its original cast, there are five legitimate productions along Broadway...
...in, Symposium...
...at the Lyceum...
...The one serious study to survive the season is "Tobacco Road" at the 48th Street Theatre...
...From Chicago, 111., to Skow began, Me., with many points in between, especially along the sound: I^ong Island, Westchester, and Connecticut, the try-out theatres are playing for the summer crowds...
...11 a.m., I-<>r mini Hour...
...This week's Albee stage show boasts of LcRoy Smih and his orchestra, late features of Connies "Hot Chocolates...
...Pat O'Brien has the role of a ! flashy fighter with plenty of flash, considerable class and no "punch," but whose inordinate vanity leads him to believe that he actually Is knocking out the "set-up" his promoters provide lor his bouts...
...Jacob List, I'll etiology Clinic of the Air...
...The music was written by Hurry Aksf and Roy Turk...
...8:15, Margaret Heed Doolcy, nie/.iio-sopiaiio...
...Sam Taylor directed "The Cat's Paw," with the dance numbers handled by Larry Ceballos...
...10:15, lioss anil lleddall, pluno duo...
...Willie mill (onin...
...Jacob List, I'syc hotogy Clinic of the Air...
...Johnson Choir, and more recently the Theatre Union "Stevedore" company...
...8:15, Dorothy James, soprano...
...Bat.—X a.m., Dr...
Vol. 17 • August 1934 • No. 33
