Libel-- Fine Court-Room Drama Opens Gtlbert Miller's Season
"Libel"-- Fine Court-Room Drama Opens Gtlbert Miller's Season ~~ "*'*"" ^ ^^^^^^=^^~BBi^^SBS^^Si^=SB^B^^BSs;^=s=s==s==^^--_L The Week on the Stage B» Joseph T. Shipley 1 1 ...
...Pierre Blanchar as the megalomaniacal student and Harry Baur as the wily inspector have carried on their battle of wits for six weeks at the theatre and will continue the warfare during Christmas week...
...Alving had learned that her husband was physically, as well as morally, worm-eaten...
...Two New Film Features at Brooklyn Strand The dreaded Devil's Island, painted in fact and fiction as the hell-hole of the trBpics...
...Supporting- Baur and Blan.har in "Crime and Punishment" are Madeleine Ozeray as Sonia, Paul-ette Elambert of "La Maternelle" as Polia, and Alexandre Rignault Screen Version of "Ah Wilder ness" at Center The screen version of Eugene D'Neill's great American stage uceess "Ah Wilderness...
...Alving) such a company foregathers in the present "Ghosts," blending their work in an ensemble of poised, sensitive, respondent playing that will l>e memorable through many years...
...it was sense of duty, conventional morality, the sham of keeping up appearance, thai kept her an outwardly devoted wife...
...Nazimova Scores in Ibsen's "Ghosts" at the Empire STILL ALIVE "GHOSTS...
...Hammer-stein's Victoria Music Hal...
...Long before Oswald was born, Mrs...
...And j on the way, through clever touches of character-revelation and^of humor, and through its own powerful movement, one of the season's surest and most gripping plays forms into "Libel...
...for the basic idea, the driving force, in "Ghosts" is no mere inheritance of disease or condemnation of double standards of morality, but the eternal moral that a 'ife founded on a lie cannot stand...
...At Henry Miller's...
...By Edward Wooll...
...can hardly be called either a mystery play or a medo-drama...
...To the ris...
...ARTHUR L. MAYERS NEW RIALTO...
...The I consequent suit for libel unrolls before our eyes...
...ing generation, that pictures Ibsen as a venerable greybeard, senescent, moribund, no better word can be given than tiii--: See Nazimova and her company in "Ghosts" and you will have bellowed upon yourself an evening ot deep and penetrant beauty...
...for use in clubs, I schools, labor unions and fraternal I groups, it was announced today...
...A modernistic theatre in blue, gold and terra-eotta, with every latest feature designed for comfort, and a poiicy of showing good adventure, mystery and drama films, the sort designed to please the male, but that the...
...An ideal reader assumes that a olay will have the performance it deserves...
...Releasing "Crime and Punishment" for Unions, Clubs "Crime et Chatimoiit," the French film version of the famous novel by Dostoyevski, \\i11 be released by the Garrison Film Distributors Inc...
...There is a deal of surprise, which we shall not give away...
...you will retain t rousing memory and a standtni for measurement of the theatre's best...
...And against such shams in our social system...
...The film was produced* by Metro-joldwyn-Mayer under the direction of Clarence Brown...
...In the gay nineties...
...Fang and Claw" is the pictoral log of Buck's re*cent expedition, highlighted by the capture of a man-eating tiger, a giant crocodile, a rhinoceros, and various rare specimen- of wild life in the* Far East...
...yet the interest is not lost with the revelation, for the plight of Sir Mark Loddon holds us still...
...The Garriscn Film Co...
...yet it combines all the excitement of these with a searching character study, and much excellent humor of the "dry" English sort...
...Trudi Schoop and Comic Ballet Due at the Majestic Trudi Schoop and her Comic Ballet, the internationally famed Swiss troupe of dancing comedians, will begin their rir>t American tour with a ten-day engagement at the Majestic Theatre next Friday evening (December 27) under the au-pices of S. Hurok...
...serves as the locale for the new film "Escape From Devil's Island" which shares the double feature program this week at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre on the same program with "Millions in the Air...
...Ibsen's dia-mas still ring true...
...Under th.- direction of Nazimova (who plays Mrs...
...but such an ideal cast is rarely assembled...
...And those that know Ibsen, and Nazimova, will have no need of such a word, but are alresdy banking memory with "Ghosts...
...gentler sex falls hard for...
...The play was adapted for screen purposes >y Albert Hackett and Frances Garrison Film Distr...
...At the Empire...
...and Broadway, sponsored by Arthur L. Mayer, opened Christmas day on New York's most historic -theatre corner, » It has as its first attraction Frank L. Buck's latest adventure picture "Fang and Claw...
...This is the third in the series of Buck's thrill films...
...Those who rashly thought that "Ghosts" was laid have a poignant awakening at the Empire, where Nazimova heads an impeccable cast in glorious proof that the play still lives, as a rich and soul-stirring experience of the theatre...
...Groups ; in New York Citv will be able to j use the film at a later date...
...The tilm will be available on I 35mm and 10mm sourtd-on-nim for i groups outside of Xew York City (.effective January 1. 1l»3...
...THEATRE OPENS WITH FRANK BUCK'S LATEST THRILLER, TANG AND CLAW' j The New Rialto, on 42nd St...
...Sir Markkas just been elected to Parliament, when a London scandal sheet spreads a nevv,s item proclaiming^Sir Mark" is an "impostor, not merely elected but even I married under false pretense...
...flourished on this corner...
...c o-.tarring Lionel Barrymore and Wallace Beery, is current at the Henter Theatre, and will play an extended engagement...
...Libel"-- Fine Court-Room Drama Opens Gtlbert Miller's Season ~~ "*'*"" ^ ^^^^^^=^^~BBi^^SBS^^Si^=SB^B^^BSs;^=s=s==s==^^--_L The Week on the Stage B» Joseph T. Shipley 1 1 11 * " "M * * BAR-SINISTER "LIBEL...
...The fact that, a dozen years or more ago, folks began to say Ibsen's scenes were dating is happily irrelevant...
...Crime and Punishment" Enters Seventh Week at Cinema de Paris The student Rtskolikov and the police chief Porfiry continue to enact their cat-and-mouse game at the Cinema de Paris, in the French film version of EBstoyevsHSr'is famous story, "Crime and Punishment...
...To trace the movement of the trial would be both lengthy and unfair to the playwhich bears back, in its course, to war scenes and brutality significant beyond the immediate play, glimpses into wide fields of horror and disgust...
...And one of ?hese, beyond any imposture, had . been a Chinese wall between the j baronet and his wife, a barrier the barrister (their lives passing in vain) helps them break down...
...By Hcmik Ibsen...
...The earlier pictures were "Bring em Back Alive" and "Wild Cargo," also produced by Van Beuren and released by RKO Radio...
...als., an-I nounced that <>ut "of town group' may rent safety equipment front ! Garrison agencies throughout the country...
...Now Arthur L. Mayer gives us something definitely 1936...
...In 1915 it was replaced by the old red-plush Rialto, first of New York's great picture palaces...
Vol. 18 • December 1935 • No. 52
