Elmer Rice Celebrates Twenty Years in Theatre
Elmer Rice Celebrates Twenty Years in Theatre "Judgment Day" First New Play of His Season Twenty years ago last Monday, August 20, Elmer Rice read the first set of criticisms for a play of his...
...During the day a special sports festival will be held on the large green surrounding the old tearoom...
...Supplementing this feature photoplay is a new Function and Marco stage show Unity to Hold Big Week-End Program While the recent fire at Unity House will limit the number of guests who can be accommodated to 350, the high standard of excellence set by this popular resort will be maintained...
...Vaudeville Expected to Come Beck Strongly- Will Be Presented in RKO House* Again Vaudeville is due for a strong come-back during the coming season, RKO executive* revealed yesterday with the announcement of a new "vaudeville policy," which will be launched in certain houses on the circuit, starting today...
...The Fox Brooklyn stage Varieties is another of the popular Flo Kelly productions, entitled "Orange Blossoms...
...Street Scene," which won the Pulitzer prize in 1929...
...Charlie Chan at Roxy This week the Roxy Theatre has brought to its screen another chapter in the thrilling career of Earl Derr Biggers' famed sleuth, Charlie Chan, in the new Fox picture, "Charlie Chan's Courage...
...Tamiment Open Over Jewish Holidays Acceding to the request of numerous patrons, Camp Tamiment, at Tamiment, Pa., announces that it will remain open until September II, including the Jewish holidays in its season...
...The coming Sunday program will include the ever popular Hall Johnson Choir, David Pinski, famous dramatist-poet, and the Pine Grove Players in one of their artistic dramatic offerings...
...On Trial," "For the Defense," and "It Is the Law," written in collaboration with Hayden Talbot...
...Support Donald Brian in "Fly Away Horns" Vera Allen and Richard Hale will have important roles in support of Donald Brian in "Fly Away Home," the comedy which Theron Bamberger will present at the Berkshire Playhouse, at Stockbridge, Mass., next week (beginning Monday, Aug...
...The Subway," "Left Bank," "We, the People," "Close Harmony" written with Dorothy Parker, "Cock Robin" written with Philip Barry, "Wake Up, Jonathan" written with Hatcher Hughes, "The Home of the Free," "See Naples and Die," etc...
...The Tanjiment Players, directed by Ronald Hammond, offered one of their more serious productions during the week just closed, Shaw's "The Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet" with Mr...
...Leslie Howard la Saucy Film Comedy at the Albee Leslie Howard is cast as a suave and engaging rogue with a flair for fun and a weakness for women in "The Lady Is Willing," now showing at the Albee Theatre...
...F. Cowles Strickland, managing director of the theatre, is staging "Fly Away Home,' which is by Dorothy Bennett an* Irving White...
...Like his maiden effort, "Judgment Day" is a melodrama and the scene takes place in a courtroom...
...Two well-known actors who had parts in "On Trial" will also be in "Judgment Day...
...This is the fifth Rice play to have a legal flavor, the others being the successful "Counsellor - at - Law," which ran for two seasons...
...Special rates are announced for this period, and a weekend rate has been made to include the Friday to Tuesday holiday...
...Since that time Mr...
...The new policy will consist of five RKO acts, together with feature pictures, presented at a popular price scale...
...A water-carnival is also part of this program...
...Nat Dorfman's New Comedy, "Errant Lady," to Open at Hie Pulton Sept...
...Others in the cast included Emily Earle, Paul Ballantyne, Gertrude Goldsmith and Herman Shapiro...
...the Madison In Brooklyn...
...last two years have been devoid of stage entertainment, will open with a regular RKO vaudeville policy Saturday: Coliseum, Chester and 125th Street, Manhattan...
...Unity House will be open during the entire month of September...
...These are Lee Baker, who played the lead in the Chicago company of that early work, and Hans Robert, recently of "Dinner at Eight," who was in the original New York company...
...The Three Slate Brothers, those "mad but funny" boys whose dancing ability is exceeded only by theirSsrlotous clowning, are also on the stage...
...Pictures, Inc., and will leave New York for Hollywood in the near future to begin preparations for the big musical picture in which he- is to appear...
...Leona Powers, who has appeared in important roles , in several Theatre Guild productions, will have the leading role, in "Errant Lady...
...The play will be offered here later in the season...
...Hammond in , the leading role...
...Other plays which Mr...
...Elmer Rice Celebrates Twenty Years in Theatre "Judgment Day" First New Play of His Season Twenty years ago last Monday, August 20, Elmer Rice read the first set of criticisms for a play of his own authorship...
...This is the first time in its history that "Tamiment has extended its season so late Into September...
...The management has seen to it that every facility ft»r the recreation and comfort of the guests will be provided...
...In the past, stage Jack Halt in "The Defease Rests" at Fax Brooklyn Jack Holt dons the toga of the barrister in "The Defense Rests," which opens at the Fox Brooklyn Theatre today...
...On Friday, Aug...
...31, RKO Proctor's, Troy, N. Y., will join the circuit's vaudeville houses, and additional theatres will come in at a later date...
...The following theatres, which for the...
...Dorfman is the author of "Take My Tip," which was seen two seasons ago at the 48th Street Theatre, and of several editions of Lew Leslie's "Blackbirds...
...She is assisted by Lind Hayes, "Ole" Debbil Mike, and Newell Chase, composer and pianist...
...Others in the cast include Dodson Mitchell, Edward Raquello, Donald Foster and Mary Home Morrison...
...The last Rand school lecturer at the camp this ' summer will be August Claessens, 1 who commences his discussions on 1 Monday...
...The cast of featured players include the Runaway Four with Tom and Shatz O'Brien, Jimmy Oliver and Andy Barlow, Bobby Gillette, Shirley Richards, Madie and Ray in "Spinning Along," the Five De Gauchies, and the Fox Ballet...
...Rice has had produced in the double decade in which he has been active in the theatre as author, producer and director are "The Adding Machine," which the Theatre Guild presented...
...Rudy Vallee has signed a starring contract with Warner Bros...
...Grace Hayes, musical comedy star who is now a radio feature, is headlining the accompanying RKO vaudeville bill...
...17 "Errant Lady," a new comedy by Nat N. Dorfman, will open at the Fulton Theatre on Monday evening, September 17, under the managerial auspices of Harry Albert.The play, which will be staged by Priestley Morrison, goes into rehearsal next Wednesday...
...entertainment has been considered a sort of luxury in that it made high admission prices necessary but the present RKO plan is to hold the scale down to the level of regular photoplay houses...
...Rudy Vallee Signs With Warner Bras...
...For the Labor Day week-end, i Tamiment has arranged a gala revue for Saturday,' with a carnival ' and costume ball Sunday evening...
...Supporting Holt are such well-known stars as Shirley Gray, Nat Pendelton, Donald Meek and Raymond Hatton...
...It is a musical romance descriptive of the Land of Nippon and is said to feature an array of beauty in a ballet of thje Far East...
...Rice has written and collaborated on sixteen other plays which have been produced on Broadway, and he is now rehearsing his eighteenth play, "Judgment Day," which will open at the Belasco on Wednesday evening, Sept...
...George M. Cohan and Sam Harris, who produced it by arrangement with Arthur Hopkins at the Candler Theatre, had presented a hit...
...This was "On Trial," and the verdict was unanimous that the play was good and that Messrs...
...During the week just concluded . Tamiment offered its patrons n seI ries of nightly talks by John T. Flynnj authority on economic and financial matters...
...Others in the csst include Gage Clarke, Fred Herrick, Mary Wickes and Caroline Hoysradt...
Vol. 17 • August 1934 • No. 34
