Helen Hayes Truly Royal as England's Queen (The Week on the Stage)
Shipley, Joseph T .
Helen Hayes Truly Royal as England's Queen The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shiplev VICTORIA FEMINA "V1 Cm*ORIA REGIS7A." B% Latkenee H o u s m a v. At tkt HelemHayes, in * season...
...is made up mainly of "bleeders...
...Promise...
...in Philadelphia last week-end...
...Unlike a "Disraeli," or an "Abraham Lincoln,"' that reach climaxes of international importance, "Victoria Regina" builds on love,"even on petty jealousy of the Queen...
...Then calmly admitting to his brother-in-law (on the other side) that the first two years had been for the entire state, the third for only New York City...
...DRAMA AND LIFE What's going on in the theatre is paltry stuff alongside of the drama of life itself, these days...
...certainly art would not tolerate some of the life performances we have recently seen of things "heaven stops the nose at...
...Imagine a leader of one side, in...
...Take the blackjack mockery of 'the N.E.C...
...By Martin Flavin...
...Brooklyn Strand Holds Over Double Feature Rill "Show Them No Mercy," the gangster picture to end gangster pictures, and "$1,006 a Minute," the associate feature, based on the Saturday Evening Post novel, are still attracting large crowds to the Brooklyn Strand Theatre where both features are now playing a second week...
...Rather than attempt to raise the price scale, which would shut out tile /'very audience the...
...On the stage, we like our villains forthright, even though they smile and smile...
...CoSjSjn Ufo\*\\5*000"** *• . f...
...That'll make everything honest and above-board, won't it...
...Unreality and coincidence pair in the plot: the nurse and the doctor, both freshly discharged (during the World War) end living a week together, never discover they had the same patient in charge...
...It is felt that in this way many persons who cannot cooperate in the campaign- in any other way might be able to share in the support of the theatre...
...But the doughty Thomas of Philadelphia's N.E.C...
...King ef Burlesque" With Warner Baxter...
...Cowards have little business on the stage, for every Hamlet in the drama, life has a hundred thousand Hams — and doubting Thomases...
...The new 20th Century-Fox musical has been given, a large scale production, ; combining spectacle with a tensely human story, comedy, drama, and brings to town a wealth of songs that are already becoming air favorites...
...Elsewhere in this issue those actually present are reporting...
...Supplementing the feature is a screen novelty, "Audioscopiks," the sensational new third-dimension movies in sound...
...No audience would tolerate for a moment the farce-tragedy of that meeting...
...Flavin's Achilles' heel is the story he has chosen, to illustrate his theme—which deserves better fare than the melodrama he accords it...
...If you're dead sure yen won't serve, we'll name a few more of you for the committee to make it look fairer still...
...The film will open at the Rockefeller Center playhouse on Wednesday, January 15...
...B% Latkenee H o u s m a v. At tkt HelemHayes, in * season memorable for its excellent acting, adds to the portraits an outstanding study of Victoria...
...Yon wont serve on that committee...
...the Empire...
...on his own son, and his hand and nerve fad, no colleague is present, merely nurses and internes, and of course the boy dies...
...T* M .*** The Theatre Union,, which now has its sixth j>lay on the boards and is id its third season as the first professional social theatre in this country (the only one yet established that produces continuously), today launched a campaign to raise a $15,000 sustaining fund to carry it through three more plays...
...Take the Supreme Court, upsetting the alphabet...
...The play is misnamed, for it is not the queen hut the woman we watch...
...will take place January 26th at the Civic Repertory Theatre...
...Its story is an original by Vina Delmar, adapted to the screen by Gene Markey and Harry.Tugend...
...Riffraff" at the Capitol • A vivid, sparkling,' new Jean Harlow comes to the Capitol's screen today with the opening of "Riffraff...
...Ably assisting in the fun making is Gregory Ratoff, Arline Judge, who acts as a foil for Oakie, and Andrew Tombes...
...With an excellent permanent set of various levels, the action moves across many years, with excellent work by Elissa Land...
...The discussion of the Russo-Turkish war leads to the Queen's offer of her Garter to Disraeli, with as greet a display of emotion as is mm sibie, from her, to one of his rasjj and rank...
...yet Mr...
...In the theatre, somehow, courage and honesty—though not always triumphant—are usually deemed among the decencies of life...
...The committee in charge of the campaign includes Margaret Larkin, executive secretary...
...Roger Pryor and Leila Hyams play the leads in "$1,000 a Minute...
...But in life, sometimes, they put on more than a smile, they don a mask of fair play...
...Rochelle Hudson, Cesar Romero, Bruce Cabot and Edward Norris head the cast of "Show Them No Mercy...
...and to his death...
...This method has been used in workers' theatres abroad...
...And her very desire destroys both its agent and its goal...
...The work of Martin Flavin usually commands intelligent attention ; and "Tapestry, in Gray" develops a theme both powerful and humanly persistent...
...but ten years later, the first time they meet after that swift affair, he rushes up to hold her from jumping off a New York dock...
...Dancing numbers are taken care of by Nick Long, Jr., whose last picture was "Broadway Melody," Dixie Dunbar and the Paxton Sisters...
...It would look a bit rough, it might spread a stench,1 were we to wipe you out this suddenly...
...Frank Back's Newest Thriller and "Navy Wife" at Albee "Fang and Claw," the result of a full year of work, danger and hardship by "Bring 'Em Back Alive" Frank Buck, unreels itself at the RKO Albee Theatre in conjunction with "Navy Wife," the Kathleen Norris novel with Claire Trevor, \Ralph Bellamy and Ben Lyon...
...2. An intensified subscription drive...
...So first we'll appoint 4 committee, giving yon a careful minority, to examine and report before we destroy you...
...And I suppose you can take that word in a political, as well as a physical, sense...
...an M-G-M sports reel, "Basketball Technique" and the Capitol Theatre Newsreels...
...4. A levy of five cents on each ticket toward a sustaining fund...
...the critic's verdict would be: < "Such things don't happen...
...In "King of Burlesque," Warner Baxter returns to the type of role he played in "42nd Street," his first musical...
...But there's really very little of history in the play...
...The amount needed is the annual deficit...
...Charles Friedman, production manager, and Charles Walker, treasurer...
...Emile Boreo, comedian, eccentric dancer, personality artist, wit and otherwise famous, especially for his creation and introduction of "The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers," and whose inimitable brand of original entertainment has brought him international popularity, will begin a week's engagement at Loew's State Theatre starting today...
...kings—or queens...
...Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, Stew and Lee end Others to Open at Center Theatre Next Wednesday "King of Burlesque,* first of the new year's screen musicals, will be the next attraction at the Center Theatre, following the current engagement of "Ah Wilderness...
...Honest you won't...
...dared not swing his blackjack in one good blow...
...Metropolitan area and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Gertrude Lawrence...
...The first...
...a persuasive chansi Vincent Price makes Albert 1 convincing figure...
...the campaign for a sustaining fund was planned...
...That's propaganda, not truth...
...It includes: 1. Requests for contributions from interested friends...
...The catastrophe has occurred (though only one is aware) before the curtain rises, but another career is saved before it falls...
...Theatre Union was organised to reach...
...we are shown-incidents to prove that Judy O'Grady and the Empress herself are sisters under their shifts...
...It is hoped this year to reach a wider number of people...
...The production was supervised by Kenneth Macgowan and directed by Sidney Lanfield...
...the legitimate descent...
...Though Eng...
...from her accession in 1837 to the sixtieth anniversary of that day...
...Yon pretest...
...The dock is front-stage...
...3. A series of Sunday evening benefit performances...
...lish law** forbids public perform^ ance of "Victoria Regina" in the Empire, and though the play sheas a romantic fragrance around tha old lady, there is little room in thf spectators for the old nonsense cf the divine right of...
...Perhaps the coming order will prescribe, for its delinquents, a course in theatergoing as a corrective to the dramatic unrealities that happen in life...
...Fes Brooklyn's Twin Attractions The Fabian Fox Brooklyn Theater is now presenting a finely balanced program comprised of "If You Could Only Cook," with Herbert Marshall and Jean Arthur, and ''Mimi," a first run in the...
...That's how good blood gets into royal lines...
...When the surgeon, top-man in his hospital, is operating (at his wife's insistence: is he not the beet...
...At the Shubert...
...Such lapses from life's expectancies mar the work in retrospect...
...M. Eleanor Fitzgerald, subscription manager...
...in the beholding, it gathers an unquestioned power, as it dramatizes, in terms of its particular story, a basic and universal problem, near the spiritual core of the conflict of the sexes...
...Its cast is headed by Warner Baxter and features a group of the screen's well-fcnotwn / comedians, singers, dancers arid a chorus of Hollywood's choicest beauties...
...If life can be as cockeyed as that, give me the order and the symmetry, the honesty, of the theatre...
...Tapestry In Gray' A Wen Worn Theme For the Theatre FEMININE VICTORIOUS "TAPESTRY IN GRAY...
...The more credit, then, to HeleJ Hayes, to Director Gilbert Milla| and to an excellent supporting company for somehow infusing into this deliberately feminine picture (for cf course Laurenet Housman knew he was omitting...
...Robert Louis Stevenson used to amy that, when he saw a particularly unbelievable occurrence in a book or play, he could be sure it was an exact transcript from life...
...Heading the list of comedians is Jack Oakie, to whom the studio has given a choice role...
...If You Could Only Cook" and , "Mimi...
...But in the glamorous kingdom of the theatre, Helen Hayes is a princess of the royal line...
...Shifty as Victoria might prove to be...
...order to make a point, publicly giving statistics to show the decline of the party vote, and giving the figures for three years...
...Housman's history, if accurate, shows the Queen following invariably her husband's counsel—that King-consort Albert who, when the Queen proposes to him, tells 'her he is probably a bastard...
...I wish to comment only on it's being more theatrical than the theatre...
...The rest is fsisM sentimentaly and court gbsae onstage...
...Show Them No Mercy" Tops Two Film Features at Palace "Show Them No Mercy," Darryl F. Zanuck's gangland .thriller which takes up the story where the others of this type leave off, will be at the RKO Palace Theatre starting today...
...Married, their best friend is that very patient, the bacteriologist...
...It is a picture of a woman who loves a man deeply, who feels power in him, who in her nrge toward fulfillment drives him on and on in his chosen work, toward success— and beyond...
...More men than Oscar Wilde have said' that life tends to imitate art...
...News reels, eartoons and other divertissement round out the entertainment...
...The modification of'the note to the U. S., in '?861, when Confederate delegates were taken from a British ship, is subordinate to the picture of Albert's relations with Victori...
...as the woman who is probing herself, Melvyn Douglas as her surgeon-husband, Minor Watson as their bacteriologistfriend, Arnold Korff as the psychiatrist, and a half-hundred more in the swift episodes...
...Comfort—and hope...
...and there is m measure of comfort in the recognition (feat royalty is human...
...Mona Barrie, Alice Faye, Kenny Baker of radio fame, Shaw and Lee, and Fats Waller, Harlem's Cotton Club star, are also listed among the singers...
...Sure you won't serve...
...to such dizzying heights that he must fall...
...Trace the thoughts yourself and give me the theatre...
...Flavin must have planned it before "Dead End" was on...
...These have been forthcoming in past years...
...Give me the courage of the theatre, too...
...Take Italy, picking hospital units as favorite targets...
Vol. 19 • January 1936 • No. 2
