Boy Meets Girl, One of the Season's Prize Comedies
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"Boy Meets Girl," One of the Season's Prize Comedies The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley More Than Death ^Stvrderin'the Cathedral." By T. S. Eliot At the Manhattan. I We must,...
...Gypsy .Dances" has never been shown in this conntry as a separate ballet production...
...In the same spirit, another murderer protests that sometimes violence is necessary for the good of the social order.—Loud applause from sections of the audience, taking seriously this bit of a villain's self-excusing...
...A revised version of "Public Gardens," with music by- Dukelsky and a libretto based upon a fragment of Andre Gide's novel, "The Counterfeiters," is also schedule...
...The new allgirl spectacle has special mur;ic byKay Swift and Al Silverman, settings by Albert Johnson and costumes by Marco Montedoro and Willa Van...
...The last of them points oat that Becket, by unlocking the cathedral door, by speaking mildly to the knights, by not running from them, is really inviting them to kill him, is really committing suicide...
...ChuChin-ChowT' "Experience" (a modern morality), "Aphrodite" and "Mecca" were production-interludes before the great series: Balieff and his Chauve-Souris...
...Tet any work of T. S. Eliot deltiands attention...
...who completed her meteoric rise from the chorus of the First Little Show when she became the leading woman of the bundling comedy "The Pursuit of Happiness" and who was last season Leslie Howard's leading woman in "The Petrified Forest," is now back on Broadway after making two motion pictures, and is appearing in the pop* ular new stage-play called "CoRes pondent Unknown," at the Rita Theatre...
...seats cost from 35 cents to $1.06, and on Saturday evenings, 35 cents to $1.55...
...As slang for an engagement or an affair of the heart the phrase is becoming universal...
...Spewacks Add a Term to American Speech It took a pky to give America its latest wiee«ra*k-r-"Boy Meets Girl...
...Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie and Helen Broderick are featured in the latter, while in "Road Gang," a revelation of conditions existing in a penal institution, run by crooked officials, Donald Woodsrtfay Linaker, Caryle Moore, Jr., Henry O'Neill and Richard King heal a big cast...
...Society editors, sports writers, columnists and the man - on - thestreet have accepted "Boy Meets Girl" as a general term, indicating romance in its broadest meaning...
...Read Gang" and "Love on a Bet" at The Palace < In presenting "Road Gang" and, "Love on a Bet," this week, tfitT RKO Palace Theatre blends raw, stark realism with gay and audacious comedy...
...hot the major roles are as well handled as by any competent cast...
...Despite its talking moments, the general effect of the play is sound, even touching...
...how the common people stood hopelessly by and watched their rulers' conflicts alter the bringers of woe, but not the burdens...
...Boy loses girl...
...Bs-onislava Nijineka, sister of the great Polish dancer, will arrive next week from Paris to rehearse the company in two of the new productions, "Les Noces," with music by Stravinsky and scenery and costumes by Nathalie Gontcharova, and "Gypsy Dances,'* taken from the opera "Russalka" by Dargomijsky...
...The full success formula for any work, as these cinemasters develop it, is "Boy meets girl...
...The acting, in the minor roles, 4a no better than in many commercial plays...
...Exotic and ever fresh beauty from many lands: and a sure place in the annals of the American theatre for Morris Gest...
...Leon Leonidoff presents a new revue in which the entire cast is female...
...power and poignancy, in their picture of...
...Other plays with which he has been connected, either as author, director or both, include "Broadway," "Love 'Em and Leave 'Em," "Four Walls," "Chicago," "Coquette," "Twentieth Century," "Small Miracle" and "Jumbo...
...Murder in the Cathedral" decidedly does...
...Glen da Parrel!, Patricia Ellis and other well-known players in the cast, is scheduled to open at the Strand Theatre today...
...The Spewacks, authors of many screen plays as well as several Broadway hits, contend that a success story, either in celluloid or on the stage, is based on the single plot—boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl...
...Merely to list all the productions he has sponsored (as Oliver Sayler sets them down) would overcrowd cur space...
...Edwina Eustis, former contralto of the .Philadelphia Opera, and Selma Marlowe, dancer, are two of the stars...
...Amid mad frenzy a waitress finally wins the son of a British lord...
...Victor Wolfram, the author of "Bitter Stream," has been identified, with the labor theatre almost since there was such a theatre in this country...
...On Monday evening, November 30, The Don Cossack Russian Male Chorus, conducted by Serge Jar off, will return by popular request to give its only New York concert of the season...
...This will .be the Russian troupe's fifth engagement in New York in the last three seasons, and will mark the end of the largest transcontinental tour—over two hundred performances—ever undertaken by a Russian ballet...
...His outstanding contributions to the American theatre began in 1911, when he brought from Russia the first complete ballet ensemble to be seen in the United States, virtually introducing to us that now very popular art...
...George Abbott, co-author and director of "Three Men on a Horse," is both director and producer of this new hit show...
...On the stage...
...Myra Hess, English pianist, will give her second and but recital of tiie season on Wednesday evening, March 10, and the series will close with a song recital by Kirs ten Ftagstad on March $1, A937...
...Illness and rest—and now that delicate flower of the Orient, "Lady Precious Stream...
...The Universal photoplay, which is based on the novel of Blaise Cendrars and adapted to the screen by Gene Fowler, was directed by James Craze, whose previous productions at such pictures as "The Covered Wagon" and "Old Ironsides" established him as a master of outdoor spectacle...
...He was the first to organize a theatre among the miners of West Virginia, and was one of the organizers of the Theatre Union, Jacob Ben-Ami, noted actor and director, is staging the play...
...It is deliberately clothed as a Greek drama, which always seems talky today...
...Setter's Gold" With Edward Arnold and Lee Tracy at Radio City Music Hall Telling the epic story of California's gold rush, "Sutter's Gold," in which Edward Arnold, Lee Tracy and Binnie Barnes head a cast of thousands, is to be seen at the Radio City Music Hall this week...
...MORRIS GEST—A GENIAL MOST TO FAME Immigrant, bootblack, "Bosco the Wild Man" in a street circus, ticket-scalper, talent-scout for Oscar Hammersteir., son-in-law of David Belasco, Morris Gest has had a long career in the theatre, mainly as a producer in America of excellent thinks from abroad...
...Then "The Miracle," that great spectacle (which grossed well over five million dollars, with a net profit of only some $60,000, so expensive was it to remodel stages everywhere for its cathedral...
...two seasons of the Mpscow Art Theatre, the farewell tour of Eleonora Duse...
...It all started last Thanksgiving Eve when Bella and Samuel Spews ck'* Hollywood lark, "Boy Meets GirL" had its premiere at the Cort Theatre in New York...
...In addition to their long and successful career in the movies and for the stage, readers of The New Leader may recall, as a touch of background, that Bella Spewack worked on the good old daily Call...
...To this value, the direction and the simple but wellused setting contribute...
...And there is dignity and beauty in the lines and the life of the archbishop More pertinently, there is keen satire in the excuses —justifications—which the murderers offer, as they turn to the audience to explain why they killed the priest within the cathedral...
...This they establish in their hilarious whirligig...
...These murderers afford an interesting glimpse of the audience...
...The settings were designed by Cleon Throckmorton, who designed the settings for "Peace on Earth," and other plays...
...Not only as an important Federal venture, but as a self-sustaining dramatic presentation, "Murder in the Cathedral" should be seen...
...Subscriptions may now be mailed to Town Hall, 123 West 43rd Street...
...Eliot is obviously presenting them as' reseats, trying to explain away their misdeed...
...and" usually deserves it...
...The Theatre Union has reduced the top prices of tickets for this play...
...The former was performed as a. stage work only once in this country, in 1929, under the auspices of the League of Composer?, with different choreography and scenery from the original Diaghilev version, first given in Paris in 1923, which isrthe one to be offered here...
...I We must, immediately, thank the Federal Theatre (this time its "Popular Price" project: 55 cents tap) for presenting a work of art from which the commercial theatre would certainly turn with lofty disdain— no pocketbook.-picker, this...
...S. Hurok Announces the Return of the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe Precisely on the evening of the twentieth anniversary of Varslav Nijinsky's American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House, on Sunday, April 12th, Col W. de Basil's Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo will begin a' two weeks' return engagement at the opera house in a repertoire of eighteen productions, including two new additions, according to an anrouncementwftom the offices of S. Hurok, American manager of the company...
...In the cast are Albert Van Dekker, Vincent Sherman, Millicent Green, Hester Sondergaard, John Boruff, and others who have been in many Theatre Union plays, and Annie Thomashefsky, a star of the Jewish theatre, who makes her first appearance on the English-speaking stage...
...Bitter Stream," the Theatre Union's Seventh Production, to Open Monday Evenina at the Civic Repertory Theatre v - The Theatre Union will present its seventh production next Monday evening, March 30, at the Civic Repertory Theatre, with the opening of its new play, "Bitter Stream," by -Victor Wolfram, a drama of struggle under fascism...
...The play has to do with two dizzy cinema scenarists, who, although slightly crack-brained, demonstrate that the boy and the girl theory always works out in the making of a satisfactory story and, sometimes to their surprise, works out well in real life...
...The first event for the season of 19361937 will be a violin recital by Jascha Heifetz on a Wednesday ¦f suing in November...
...The Spewacks • have written five plays among which are "Clear All Wires," "Spring Song" and "Boy Meets Girl...
...The third event will be a duet recital by Elisabeth Rethberg, soprano, and Exio Pinza, basso, both of the Metropolitan Opera Company, on December 16...
...Boygets girl...
...Marian Anderson, noted Negro contralto, will give her first New York recital of the season on Wednesday evening, January 6. On January 27, Igor Stravinsky is to appear in a joint recital with Samuel Dushkin, Russian violinist, for the first time in New York...
...hut there is power in the handling ef the chorus...
...Tows Hall Endowment Series —Next Season §. ____ I The seventh annual Town Hall Bndowment Fund series will consist of eight programs, all, with dtae exception, en Wednesday evenings to avoid conflict with the regular orchestral concerts...
...One would talk at some length of this poetic presentation of the Billing of Thomas a Becket by the minions of Henry II...
...And the Moscow Art Musical Studio, and Moissi in Tolstoi's "Redemption," and the Freiburg PPassion Players at the Hippodrome, another re-creation...
...For the films they wrote the scenarios for "The Cat and the Fiddle," "The Nuisance," "The Vinegar Tree" which became "Should Ladies Behave...
...The sixth event wiH he a dance recital by Yeichi Nimura and his American partnerpupil, Lisan Kay...
...This is the first play about fascist Italy to reach the American stage...
...Snowed Under" err Strand 1 "Snowed Under," with George Brent, Genevieve Tobin...
...The Solitaire Man," and "Rendezvous...
...The Corps de Ballet, slim, high-kicking Rockettes, and other featured artists participate...
Vol. 19 • March 1936 • No. 13
