Boyer in "Le Bonheur" Has Premiere At Cinema De Paris
Boyer in "Le Bonheur" Has Premiere At Cinema De Paris The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley NOT GUILTY "SIGHT OF JANUARY' 16." By Ayn Rand. At the Ambassador. ¦You are part of the play...
...Also there are a couple of hundred young singing and dancing ladies and gentlemen of the ensemble, whose evolutions were directed by Bobby Connoly, while Alfred E. Green was the director of dialogue...
...Philip Stevenson, author of "You Can't Change Human Nature," which is a comedy of American revolutionary times, won the Theatre Union's one-act play contest last year with "God's in His Heaven," which was produced by the Theatre Collective ¦» "Dear Old Darling" Cohan Holds The Stage DEAR OLD STARLING ¦DEAR OLD DARLIXG...
...Petrified Forest" and "Ivory Saturday NJaht" at the Palact "The Petrified Forest," co-starring Leslie Howard and latte Davis at the RKO Palace Una week, has as its accompanying attraction "Every„Saturday Night," the new Fox comedy-drama with Jed Prouty, June Lang, Thomas I Beck and Spring Byington...
...the tension grows from the balance of possibilities, from the genuine doubt...
...It's one of them "mild—yet they satisfy" medians for what really is the essential of the show, and for what all whs like good theatre will go to am: "the American stage actor, Ceotge M. Cohan...
...The Yankee Doodle Daadr i:- not emphatic in this playjHflH all the dear old starling's ottovirtues are there...
...And of course it's a hit—especially in the provinces, or the sticks, or on the road, however you wish to refer to that part of the country where minds are simple 'Liebelei,' Sehnitxler's Famous Viennese Romance, Held Over at 55th St...
...At - SjOr'ifMtCgg...
...UVMH course, discovered by the fiancee, who breaks the engagement...
...Not merely because Doris Nolan makes a most attractive heroine, whom no one would like to see condemned to die for murder...
...and "reasonable doubt" is enough to release her from the chair...
...Besides his writings, Greenwood is active in English politics, being a Councilman and member of the /British Labor Party...
...More, because if''she were positively and plainly guilty there would be no play...
...man, Herbert Rawlinson, Anita . Page, Russell Gieason and Polly Ann Young...
...Cartoon comedies, short subjects and the current news reel pictures j round out the Fox program...
...Dostoevski's classic won much acclaim from press and public when it had a very successful run here some months ago...
...She (Karen Andre) is accused of having killed her lover-employer, when in quest of 25 millions to save his fortune and face he marries the spoiled daughter of an American banker...
...The most celebrated babies in the world—Yvonne, Cecile, Marie, Annette and Emeiie—act their roles in a drama of the Canadian Northland, surrounded by such players as Jean Hersholt, Slim Summervill?, June Lang, Dorothy Peterson, Robert Barret, Jane Darwell, Montagu Love, David Tor-, rence, Helen Jerome Eddy, George Meeker and Michael Whalen...
...The play, which deals with a meat-packers' strike, had its premiere on March 1st...
...Banned in Germany, the film is said to have attained a sensational success throughout the rest of the world...
...or "Not Guilty...
...personified by Boyer, who portrays Philippe Lutcher, an anarchistic journalist...
...The Bernstein drama has had tremendous success in the French legitimate theatre, and it was in the role of Philippe that Charles Boyer gained fame on the French stage...
...Of course, th« verdict most nights will be "Not Guilty...
...Theatre Collective to Offer Nice Performances at the Provincetown Playhouse The Theatre "Collective has taken over the Provineetown Theatre to give a seres of nine performances, beginning Saturday evening, March 21st, of three one-act plays...
...Theotre of Action Repeats "The Crime" at Civic Michael Blankfort's new play, "The Crime," will be repeated by the Theatre of Action on two more Sunday evenings, March 8th and 15th, at the Civic Repertory Theatre...
...and hearts are true and the SuH and Stripes are (red) white sM blue...
...New Warner Musical, Stays at Strand "Colleen," the big Warner Bros, musical picture which began a prerelease engagement at the Strand Theatre last Saturday and continues its run there for another week, will be nationally released on March 21...
...They are: "Private Hicks" by Albert Maltz, author of last .season's "Black Pit...
...Any one of you, buying tickets, may thus become a juror...
...New Film Program at Fox Broekl yu The Fabian Fox Brooklyn Theatre offers two new feature pictures this week...
...The adaptation of "Le Bonheur" to the screen was inevitable, and Marcel L'Herbier was the ob¦ vious choice for director...
...Private Hicks" won first prize in the contest conducted recently by the New Theatre Magazine and the American League Against War and Fascism...
...Krueger, the Swedish match king, may have been the model from which the preliminary sketch of the murdered man was made...
...a surging surprise and isereasingiy swift movement, men things are broken before the anal curtain falls...
...The America* Stage Actor George M. Cohan in a comic experience in two acts and fire scene...
...Bitter Stream," the first play about fascist Italy to reach the American stage, opens Monday evening, March 30th, at the Civic Repertory Theatre...
...Adapted from one of the most famous plays of Henry Bernstein, and starring Charles Boyer, "Le Bonheur*' had its American premiere at the Cinema de Paris, on Thursday, February 2Y...
...The playing is competent, and "Night of January 16" is probably scheduled for a long series of decisions' by audiencejuries...
...Don't Get Personal," with Dunn end Sally Eilers, and "The Return of Jimmy Valentine," with Roger Prjpr, Charlotte Henry and Robert Warwick, comprise tat film program...
...Opens at iodic City Music Hall Hollywood's five newest stars, the famous Dionne Quintuplets in their first acting roles in a feature photoplay, are inow on the screen of the Radio City Music Hall in Darryl F. Zanuck's Fox production, "The Country Doctor...
...Of course it's by Cohan himself...
...Colleen...
...Le Bonheur" is being shown at the Cinema de Paris with complete English dialogue titles...
...The entire play unfolds at the trial, where the widow claims that in true love her husband had reformed...
...Le Bonheur" is a drama which depicts, the conflict between emotion and intellect...
...On the same program at the Music Hail is is new stage spectacle produced by Leon Leonidoff with settings by Albert Johnson and costumes by Willa Van and Marco Montedoro...
...singers, dancers, standard vaudeville acts with new material, and any type of unusual talent...
...but the character is strong, and strengthened by a vivid plot, with a neat turn...
...In >wm Olcl Darling" be offers an insubstantial but interesting stora^fl an old bachelor, just engaged, chased home from Europe by »: sweet young thing who dotes oa him...
...Playhouse On Thursday, March 12, Arthur Schnitzler's famous Viennese romance "Liebelei" entered its third week at the 55th St...
...Magda Schneider, Paul Hoerbiger, Gustav Gruendgens, Olga Tschechowa, Luise Ullrich and Willi Eichberger comprise the cast and Max Ophuels directed...
...Union's New flay "litter SfrfffiS...
...At this time, Gus Edwards will personally interview and audition every applicant for his new musical...
...United States of a play by the' great popular dramatist of Spain who is credited with some 1,800 manuscripts...
...Labor groups are already booking theatre parties for the first weeks of the play...
...Author of "Love on the Dole" Wellknown la British Politics Walter Greenwood, the young English pawnbroker's clerk whose novel and play, "Love on the Dole," has sky-rocketted his income from a dole to $5,000 weekly, derived from royalties, publishing rights, etc., arrived here aboard the S.S...
...the former by Gaby Morlay, as Clara Stuart, a worldfamed screen star...
...Gus Edwards Calif far Talent for the "Showindow" The first call for talent of every kind and description for Gus Edwards* revu8ical-vaudeville, opening in April at the "Showindow," 52nd St and Broadway (formerly the Broadway Theatre), takes place this Sunday at noon...
...The production of "The .Pastrybaker" is the first in tb...
...Playhouse...
...determine with which of two ready endings the play will come to a close...
...Iwwerad More than thirty trade union and labor leaders, representing major workers' groups in many fields, are sponsoring the Theatre Union's forthcoming production of "Bitter Stream" (formerly called "Sous of Rome"), by Victor Wolfson, based on the anti-fascist novel "Fontamara," and have formed a labor committee to stand behind the play...
...You are part of the play indeed, at the Ambassador...
...but ir...
...Aquitania on Tuesday, March 10, to witness the American presentation of his play at the Shubert Theatre...
...while Karen, aftet/ trying to present one story, is startled by an interruption into a story stranger still...
...But "Night of January 16" does more: it impanels a jury, right out there among the ticketpurchasers, and the lucky twelve . sit onstage before the admiring gaze of their sweethearts or wives, get paid S3 for the evening's prominence, and by bringing in their verdict of "Guilty...
...Theatre...
...You Can't Change Human Nature," by Philip Stevenson, and "The Pastrybaker," by Lepe da Vega, adapted from the Spanish by M. Jagendorf...
...The Corps de Ballet, Rockettes, Glee Club and Symphony Orchestra of seventy-five, conducted by Erno Rapee, appear in the presentation...
...The latter is...
...His success in retaining the spirit and character of the original, and at the same time using the cinematic values to their fullest extend is attested by the acclaim with which the Paris press is said to have greeted the film...
...The management of the theatre announces the return engagement of Pierre Blarfchar and Harry Bauer in "Crime et Chatiment" as its next attraction following "Le Bonheur...
...The "Showindow" ig especially interested in new faces among the chorus girls, specialty performers, young authors, lyricists and composers who never have had that first important break...
...The co-feature is "Bitch Hike to Heaven," with Henrietta Cms...
...Among the stars and featured players in the exceptionally large cast are Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Jack Oakie, Paul Draper, Hugh Herbert, Louise Fazenda, Luis Alberni and Marie Wilson...
...L'Herbier gained further fame in his two latest films, "Route Imperiale" (The Royal Way) and "La Veifle d'Armes" (Eve of Conflict), both of which are current, hits in France...
...Dienne Quintuplets in First Film Feature, "The Country Doctor...
...Rood Gone" Hoods New Mha Program at Brooklyn Strand "Road Gang," showing the 1n»v: rors prisoners are subjected ts a penal institutions run by nisftlnfi politicians, is the main attracuoa on the double feature program this week at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre...
...Both roles require mature dramatic artists and Marcel L'Herbier, the director of the film, chose Boyer and Morlay, as their years of acting experience eminently qualified them for the roles...
...Liebelei" is presented with complete dialogue titles in English...
...The clinging damsel (than sell, indeed, she proves...
...Cohan'a intimate, offhand <ijflH with the audience, his frequent, natural repetitions of movement*, and phrases, his most evident "belonging" just where he is«g3| bine to endear him to his perennial public, and to make us tolerant fj whatever he may offer...
...In many a melodrama, the action has involved the orchestra chairs as well as the stage, characters rising from seats amid the innocent audience, to rush forward and take their part in the tumult of the story...
Vol. 19 • March 1936 • No. 11
