The "Bitter Stream" Mussolini Cannot Dam
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
The "Bitter Stream" Mussolini Cannot Dam The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley ON RUINS Of ROME "BITTER STREAM." By Victor Wolf ton. From the navel"fontamara" by Ignazio Silnne....
...In addition to the film attraction, the Music Hall's holiday Easier program includes an elaborate stage presentation, "Easter' Parade," in which a cast of four hundred artists participate...
...Coliten" Hoods Doable Feotaro Bill at Palace "Colleen," new musical with Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Jack Oskie, Joan Blondel!, Hugh Herbert, Paul Draper, Louise Faaends and at least.a hundred Bobby Connolly eyefuls, starts a week's engagement at the R.K.O...
...What gives it body of spirit and Arab at hope is the reaction of these farmers...
...Italy today hard to believe, yet true, overwhelmingly trae» This picture, however, is no nasse than tile skeleton of the play...
...It is an Italian spectre ghoulish on the ruins of Some...
...Cheers of the Crowd," the second feature, co-stars Russell Hopton and Irene Ware...
...The opening is somewhat highpitched, and tike familiar melodrama devices appear : the expectant mother, the hero who goes gladly to his death ; only, unlike Sidney Carton, this one dies lor Abe cause"—but the tension seems truer as the play goes on: the mockery of bringing tne farmers to town for restoration of their tljrm».tnea disnfiasing them alter they've hoen forced to cheer II Dace's primed parade...
...Or it spreads in talk: loud, angry talk...
...At first it consists of personal reprisals, individual retaliation: cutting the great landowner's vines...
...The occasion will be made noteworthy by the presence of former Ziegfeld stars and beauties and many of the authors, composers and lyricists who were associated with Ziegfeld productions during the twenty-five years oi'-his stage career...
...It has ffla made partly fictional, coajnsmp with the man himself, but esC sistent also with the spacious |5 glamorous legend that surredsW The cast is headed by Wiljijgk...
...Or will .the vaunted Beman valor reassert itself far freedom...
...the brutality of black shirt examining o«f the villagers, so bewildered they, don't understand the questions he doesn't bother to make clear...
...Tea Slicing Kid" With Al J oison in World Premiere at Strand Theatre The gala world premiere of "The...
...the hopeless misery of the peasantry: all these grow into a picture of tyranny, torture, and greedy inSSJjsyse :r...
...Mystic Mountain" at 53rd Street Playhouse On Monday, March 30, the 35th Street Playhouse presented the American premiere of "The Mystic Mountain," a fantasy of mountain people woven from an, old folk tale and starring Dita Parlo...
...the fact ateo that the charaefBoH Ziegfeld is not intended as a&sssnS rate historical «tudy...
...On their first cooperative enterprise, the farmers intent on their first farmers' newspaper, a .summons to rally and prepare for revoit, the final curtain falls...
...Uttie Lord Fauntleroy" With ? Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello Barrymore at Music Hall 'Little Lord Fauntieroy," brought to the screen with Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello Barrymore in the Frances Hodgson Burnett story, is the Easter holiday attraction at the Radio City Music Hall...
...Especially interesting is the announcement that the picture will revive the two-a-day tradition...
...For the advance showing of "The Great Ziegfeld" made its relation to the legitimate show so evident that this exceptional means of presentation seemed necessary as well as favorable...
...Theatre Union at the Civic Rep...
...son has arrived from Hollywood to'make a personal appearance on the stage of the Strand at the first performance...
...under the fasces, the symbol of ancient Rome, the sawdust Caesar seeks the older, glory—somewhat ss his neighbor Hitler recalls pure Aryan days...
...or sly country humor that leads the...
...Significantly its emphasis tggfcsjM...
...The brutality, cruelty, corruption of an empire honeycombed with spies, when every crawling louse might bite you with betrayal, that are a legend of the twelve Caesars, have come to life with .the Mussolini methods—and 4» the Theatre Union's latest play...
...The story itself, therefore, constitutes the focal interests and this deals with the man and his career, his loves, rivalries, successes and failures...
...This is the question grimly pat in "Bitter Stream...
...This picture will be the third of the current Loew's "Spring Festival" filmi program...
...A large and excellent cast moves, under the direction of Jacob BenAmi, before Clean Throckmorton's VHeccive •sets, through the tenie and speeded scenes of the drama, bcjpmg to make "Bitter Stream" perhaps the most powerful of aid the Theatre Union productions...
...BStfcrr Stream'' is a picture of oppression unsurpassed ; of...
...But, as conditions grow worse, these Fontamarar...
...smashing the electric light bulbs when the town is left in the dank...
...Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise BafisJT and directed by Robert Z. LeohsjK* Hunt Stromberg is the prodsja of the picture...
...the flogging to death of prisoners, "killed while resisting...
...From the moment the play opens, the grim penury that grips these .dflspnseessed fanners is their sole driving force : "What must we do...
...bewildered larmers watching their land, their very water, turned from them while the mayor tells them to bow Jo ''.t&e general good—and they don't even see the General, but flfey ttel the rubber hose, and the bullets, of any coward that puts ojr'iii'Maca shirt—and the priest clasps his pudgy hands and smiles a fatuous smile...
...The tears of gsiisissisuu of numb wives and mothers make laas "bitter stream...
...Special emphasis is plsesg^M...
...New nip* Program at Fax Brooklyn The Fabian Fox Brooklyn Theatre's two new film features are "Moonlight Murder," the M-G-M special, with Chester Morris, Leo Carrillo, Madge Evans, H. B. Warner, Frank Me H ugh and Robert McWade, and "The Leathernecks Have Landed" with Lew Ayres...
...from individual action they come .to'learn the need, the only power, in working together for the common good, -. against the common tyrant...
...Preview Murder Mystery" Heads New Film Program at Brooklyn Strand "The Preview Murder Mystery," a mystery dealing with a gentleman with a penchant for murdering movie stars and others who populate the Hollywood studios, heads the double feature program this week at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre...
...Ed Lowry, Armida» and Mark Fiait Featured in Gut fidward's ".'way She-Window' Ed Lowry, comedian, the radio, stage and screen fistful of pepper...
...Though "The Great Ziegfeld" is not merely another cinema revue, it is said to have many and elaborate musical incidents whigh form the background for the story, give authenticity to the plot» and recreate the atmosphere of the showworld...
...All the action of "The PreviewMurder Mystery" is set in a motion picture studio, and audiences are actually taken behind the scenes and shown the making of a motion picture from start to finish...
...unsuspecting soldier i>y the nose till he finds he's made a donkey of himself...
...bitter words flung bice dung at departing oppressors...
...Armida, and Mark Plant, |tfae amusing "Tarsan" of "Jubilee," will be the three leading figures in the return of two-a-day vaudeville when Gus Edwards opens his "Broadway Sho-Window on Sunday, April 12th...
...Gus Edwards' production staff includes Veronica for costumes, "Bill" Powers for dances, Clark Robinson for sets, Ted Fetter for ' lyrics, and Eugene Conrad for : sketches...
...In the cast are Reginald Denny, Fiances Drake, Gail Patrick, Conway Tearle and Ian Keith...
...Singing Kid," Al Jplson's new First National starring vehicle, takes place this, evening, April 3rd, at the Strand Theatre...
...As Bomen roads still thrust fanribs through Europe, will tins new enslavement leave ether long fascist tra lis...
...For we watch, not marsiy aha ayvernmentaf oppression and the black shirt bullying, Imi the resentment of the country folk...
...Palace...
...Against this background is enacted the mystery story...
...Warner Oland in "Charlie Chan at the Circus," a mystery based on the character created by Earl Derr Biggerg, is the second feature . IU Bit fel I. Ito uj b*AnM Tib "The Great Ziegfeld" will have its world premiere at the Aster Theatre on Wednesday evening, April 8th...
...fanners learn of the "underground union," receive its papers...
...is the ausstion they cannot answer...
...Charlie "Chaplin in "Modern Times" Over Loew Circuit Charlie Chaplin in "Modern Times," the comedian's latest comedy featuring Paulette Goddard, his new leading lady, begins its tour of the Loew circuit in Greater New York today with simultaneous engagements...
Vol. 19 • April 1936 • No. 14
