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A Bewitching Bergner Beams On Broadway The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley IASY PRISONERS 'ESCAPE ME NEVER!" By Margaret Kennedy. Fourth play of the Guild Beaton; at...
...Inasmuch at the play was not in good shape, Mr...
...That came as the result of a transatlantic voyage during which, as a cabin boy, he had been drafted for the ship's concert because of his clear, childish voice...
...Perhaps not since Maude Adams' heyday has there been an equally bewitching conquest of our hearts...
...VEscape Me Never," though in itself only a good play, is made a great experience in the theatre by the irradiating presence and transforming charm of Elsbeth Bergner...
...After this, Eddie appeared in the 1918 Ziegfeld Follies in which his wife, better known as Ray Dooley, whom he met in vaudeville, was a star...
...At the present time, he is owner of a theatre, the St...
...Between performances, Dowling found time to write "Sallj, Irene and Mary," the successful musical comedy which brought him stardom, fame and fortune...
...While "the play's the thing" to catch tht king's conscience, the interest of most audiences turns easily toward the players...
...In his long career in the theatre he has tried his hand at stock, vaudeville, musical comedy, revue and motion pictures...
...The piece was retitled "The Velvet Lady," ran a year, and Eddie became an author...
...In short, Miss Bergner is a true flower of the ttheatre, whose beauty and whose fragrance may we long enjoy...
...Escape Me Never" gives varied scope for the display of the actress' talents, 'carrying her across Europe as a sort of satellite to the genius of the young composer, Sanger — yet without its moon, the earth would plunge disastrously from its course...
...and the rest of a large cast (Komiaarjevsky directing) is of the usual Guild quality...
...He is adept in radio speaking...
...Paul's, London, and with that organization of young singers he toured the world...
...When still in his teens, he made his American debut as a mimic in a piece called "The Ugly Duckling" and before he was 21, he played on the opening' bill of the Marcus Loew Theatre in Brooklyn...
...James Theatre, producer and star of New York successful "Thumbs Up," and is seeking new worlds to conquer in the amusement field...
...As a result of that incident, Eddie was engaged tc play in "1 he Gin Benlffu"thrStni^ At this point, however, his activities took on a new character...
...and the theatre-going public is agog with Miss Bergner's charm...
...Bodily (the is s> beam of light come alive an imapssioned star,-glow of tenderness at one moment, the next a radiant imp of teasing joy...
...at the Shubcrt...
...Alex Yeket's "Three Me* m. Hores at Playhers The cast of "Three Men on • Horse," the new comedy which Alex Yokel presented st the Hay...
...Kd4ie- Dewliug, »ur and producer of "Thumbs Up," the new musical success which is playing to enthusia.'tic audiences at the St...
...The Sanger<boys are drawn toward pretty Fenella McClean, who seeing Caryl first, thinks she loves him—until Sebastian comes...
...Eddie Dowling's Done Everything in the Theatre—like Alexander, He Pines fog New Worlds to Conquer School children were taught that the ancient warrior and king, Alexander, complained bitterly because he had no more worlds to conquer...
...Hugh Sinclair manages well the difficult task of playing opposite Miss Bergner...
...house last Wednesday evening, ineludes William Lynn, Sam Levene...
...and Elsbeth (the full name doesn't suit her...
...That was just the beginning...
...At ten yeaVs of age, Eddie headed the choir at St...
...Shirley Booth, Edith Van Ckm, Joyce Arling, Millard Mitchell, James Lane, Teddy Hart, Frank Camp, Fleming Ward, Margaret Mullins, Garson Kanin and Richard Huey...
...James Theatre, is not at all war-like, but he'feels very deeply for the restless Alexander...
...Erlanger asked Eddie to re-write it...
...he is an author of no mean ability and, in his younger days, he sailed the seven seas and roved the highways and byways...
...A few years later he became both author and producer of "Honeymoon Lane," and also presented Ray in "Sidewalks of New York...
...he has become something of a power in politics...
...And the vagabond Gemma, with her soon-ti-die waif, watches the counterplay of these lives with a twisted love, in the tortured happiness of knowing that Sebastian «nd she are so conjoined that he must "always come back," And when his genius is not devouring him beyond all concern for others, he's really not a bad sort...
...The play was directed by George Abbott and the settings, showing a hotel bedroom, a private home in the suburbs and a metropolitan barroom, wtrt designed by Boris Aronson...
...In 1'JIH, Eddie was doing a "single" in vaudeville, and while he was playing at the Palace in New York, A. L. Erlanger, who later became his life-long friend, saw him and induced Ziegfeld to accompany him to the theatre tc catch the act...
...Elsbeth Bergner brings to her hoyden mischief a aophistii cate merry turn of the eyes that tthows she sees through you while *>he loves (in place of which Maude Adams gave her generation h sweet understanding...
...So this apparently madcap vagabond keeps Sebastian Sanger — wayward as genius can be — tied, however loosely, to the 'standard of his ideal...
Vol. 18 • February 1935 • No. 65
