"ARE WE CIVILIZED" AT RIVOLI-REVIEWS MARCH OF TIME
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"Are We Civilized" at Rivoli-Reviews March of Time The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley To the General "C>IV/^*." X Musical Homant, • by Hardon Churek and Leo Randole. Lyrie$ by Edward...
...It raises not one question but a hundred questions...
...It causes one to wonder, in the4ight of today's events, whether ^primitive man waa so bad after all...
...the singer Elena—need I say —finds he is the romantic beggar who's been serenading outside her window, and after much the usual complications all is as well as musical comedy permits...
...she •lone can liven an evening...
...Miss Carson is a wild, frisky creature With mockery in her eyes...
...And the Russians can do a rushin' business, apparently, in Venice or Constantinople as in the V. S. A., selling titles to wealthy women who want a noble background for their trifling...
...The Merriest trifling in the play, however, comes from Violet Carson as the famous singer's maid...
...and altogether, for a summer's eve, we can recommend this "Caviar" to the general public...
...As the title implies, "Are We Civilized...
...More - important, because more entertaining, than the plot are the surging dances, not merely of the topsyturvy Miss Carson and her several partners, but of the effectively costumed chorus, in a succession of swift numbers to the tuneful rhythms...
...i -Summer it aeomin' in...
...Lyrie$ by Edward Heyman...
...and at the Forrest it's a fish roe gives title to the new merry musical...
...magnifies the question as it unfolds the major upheavals of history in an indictment of the blundering policies of our governments of today...
...As a story, it is said to be as absorbing as the startling headlines of the daily newspapers with its news items of, wars, economic strife, strikes, riots, bresdlines, forgotten heroes, and youth at the eross-roads...
...World in Revolt" Held Over at Rlalte Theatre '"World in Revel*," dramatic mm record, depicting the struggles of two continents for pesos and freedom, is laid to be attracting Sitrons of all nationalities to the ialto Theatre...
...It marked the return ef Edwin Carewe to a directorial role which called for the varied experiences he had had in depicting the various periods in which human conflicts have diverted the even paces of civilisation...
...The maelstrom of realities finds two romantic youngsters confronted by the dire spectre of their beloved families being the outstanding representatives of two conflicting schools of thought, The Utopia which seemed just around the corner, blasted by the swirling of opposing military tad pacifist forces, becomes a prison of desolation and intrigue hat for a time stills romance and threatens the happiness and safety of their families and themselves...
...Edwin Cerewe's New -Piker The screen version ef Harold Sherman's Story, "Are We Civilised," hsd its world premiere at the Rivoli Theatre last Wednesday...
...Settings and Coetumei by Steel Savage...
...The picture, actually caught by cameras in almost every country on the two continents, will be held for a second week's run...
...Cespftei Held* Over The screen adaptation of the Pulitzer Prise Play «. "Men in Whrte" — starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy, and < featuring Jean Hersholt, Elisabeth Allan and Otto Kruger will be held over for aitother week...
...George Houston makes a gallant prince for Nannette Guilford's romantic nrgings...
...The question, "Are We CivilisedT", takes form when the father of one, in a declaration of his pacifist ideals, reviews the march of "time from the era of the cave man, depicting all the great catastrophes of history, up to and including the \fcorld War...
...Basil Rathbone, well-known English ^star of the stage and screen, acts the role of Robert Browning...
...the sailor* go row row row in the park lake...
...Buying an impecunious prince's title...
...Kathartne Cornell at the Brooklyn, Academy of Music Katharine Cornell in her production of Rudolf Besier's "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," which she acted for a year in the Empire Theatre in New York City, will be seen' in the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Monday, Tuesday and- Wednesday nights, June 18-19-20, and Tuesday and Wednesday matinees, the Tuesday, matinee . being for the benefit - of the -Actors' . Fund of America...
...v«f the Forrest...
Vol. 17 • June 1934 • No. 71
