Social Problem Well Clothed in "Russet Mantle"-At Masque
Social Problem Well Clothed in "Russet Mantle"-At Masque The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley COMES THE DAWN "RUSSET- MANTLB.". By Lynn Biff. At lH* Masque. Here ii a play "that looks...
...Freshman Love" was directed by William McGann and is from the screen play by Earl Felton and George Bricker based on ideas by George Ade...
...This is the film in which Charles Bickford, its "he-man" star, was nearly killed by a ferocious lion...
...Which is at...
...Jr., the producers, announced yesterday that they had fixed...
...And toward that new day John and Eay walk—leaving reopened eyes in those behind, k. The deft dialogue is borne on by a goodly company, the stir of i action being maintained rather by the minor figures, while our concern is with the spirit and character of the four who have to face their problems—not to mention Kay's "willowy" mother (excellently portrayed by Margaret Douglass), who just refuses to look life in the face, even at opera-glass r e m o v e . Her rosecolored spectacles are both quaint and pathetic, futile...
...Musical Groups In Concert, January 25 The chorus and mandolin orchestra of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union will have its first formal appearance in Town Hall, January 25...
...Ross Alexander, Guy Kibbee and Basil Rathbone...
...The entire picture, which includes scenes in French among the Foreign Legion, has English dialogue titles for the American showing...
...The co-feature is*Clarence E. Mulford*s "The Eagle's Brood" with William Boyd, Jimmy Ellison and William Farnum...
...Itto" New French Film to Have American Premiere Tuesday at Cinema de Paris Designated the best French film of 1935 by the Venice International Exhibition, "Itto...
...Down to New Mexico Horace Kmcaid has retreated, drawn by his wife's unfulfilled dream of a castle in Spain...
...Both have come haphazard to New Mexico...
...Ridder...
...It has changed, of course, with the times...
...Brooklyn Strand Offers Two New Features "Freshman Love," a comedy of college life and love, based on a story idea by George Ade, America's famous humorist, and fitted to a musical background, heads the double feature program this week at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre...
...More, in ate, should be thus modest...
...Here ii a play "that looks at h\fe with both earnestness and laughter...
...and the two kits of self-revelation by the Kincaids wring us to recognition that apt only the youngest generation has its pressing problems...
...I.L.G.W.U...
...it is routine, but swift, as a good movie (which it soon will be...
...When There's A Mystery...
...Though seldom reeuy necessary when the melodrama b so downright as in " I Want a Policemen!*' And, even in these desperate days, detectives still hsv« tender hearts...
...I Want A Policeman...
...of Morrocco and is said to be one of the most authentic and realistic documents of the region ever to be made...
...As one of the biggest productions released in France during 1935 "Itto" has been compared to the American "Lives of a Bengal Lancer...
...Besides Flynn, the Rafael Sabatini tale of 17th century sea pirates has in its cast Olivia de Haviland...
...producers, have given us "I Conquer the Sea," a saga of whaling life with thrills and romance which has its world premiere at ;he Fox Brooklyn Theatre today...
...Georgia Coleman, the noted diving star, is seen as diving instructress at the school under Oakie's regime...
...the new film directed by Jean Benoit-Levy and Marie Epstein, will have its American premiere showing at the Cinema de Paris next Tuesday, January 28th...
...As the first film directed by Benoit-Levy and his collaborator Miss Epstein since their success in "La Maternelle," "Itto" displays the same dramatic technique which won these two artists the plaudits of the world...
...Fern (Sylvia Field) is tied to a man she doesn't love...
...Lazar Wiener, conductor of the chorus, and Josef Furgiuele, associate conductor, will conduct the chorus...
...And until the son by a former wife is cauffjL and Fern falls for the deteetfeifl the wrappings make a story qB should appeal to all members e& the Crime Club...
...Once more (as in the early social plays, like Lawson's "Processional...
...Richard Aldrich and Alfred de Liagre...
...film which recently had a run at the Roxy...
...2.500 Picket W PA / " \ N E of the largest demonstrations ever staged by the organizedrelief workers in front of the WPA headquarters brought a promise from Victor F. Riddcr, local WPA Administrator, to meet a delegation of the project workers and consider their complaints...
...The play is expected to go into rehearsal next week...
...Curtes continued: "At the next Wine and Liquor Show, to be held at Grand Central Palace from February 10 to 15, we will plan to intensify even more our efforts in this respect...
...ways helpful...
...Albee Holds Over "MagnWIcent Obsession" Because of the popular appeal which "Magnificent Obsession" possesses, indicated by the particularly large attendance at the RKO Albee Theatre, the picture will hold over for another week...
...Directed by Lambert Hillyer, the cast features Robert Armstrong, Grace Bradley, Diana Gibson, Charlie Murray, Willard Robertson, and others...
...The coronet calls it apoplexy...
...Collegiate" With Penner, Oakie at Paramount Joe Penner is back on the screen, again with Jack Oakie but minus his famous duck...
...Spain is one of the spots that has turned from feudal castles toward s newer world...
...The new Penner picture, "Collegiate," which also has Ned Sparks, Lynne Overman and lovely Frances Langford in the cast, is current at the New York'Paramount Theatre...
...The program consists of music by...
...Eetelle Winwosm, as Lady Breen, on a visit to Para when hubby dies, plays bridge wjtk the detective, and by her eaB and her wise-cracks tells the ajjH ence how to feel...
...many muddled ones seem to think that their personal failure to achieve adjustment qualifies them to rearrange the universe...
...Mendelsohn, Dvorak, Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, and others...
...I Want a Policeman...
...All the Moroccan roles, with the exception of the title part of "Itto," played by the French actress Simone Berriau, are portrayed by natives who had no more knowledge of acting than did the infants of "La Maternelle...
...he is ill, with a revolver...
...Lynn Riggsjin a subtly savored atmosphere, has rounded these lives in rieh portraiture...
...sick leave with pay and an increase for those receiving $71.50 a month...
...MGM needed a story for ber with not one but a number of shock-punches to celebrate ber return, so they bought James Edward Grant's e x c i t i n g story, "Whipsaw," and gave it to Sam Wood to direct...
...In Santa Fe, too, that new world is being sought: by Kay, the banker's daughter...
...The leading feminine role in "Ceiling Zero" is played by June Travis...
...Based on last season's Broadway stage success by Frank Wead, the picture, tells, a thrilling story laid in a great airport...
...as In a boat of still earlier melodramas) an imminent infant hurries the climax on...
...New Wine and Liquor Show to be Biggest of Its Kind "The lack of deaths from alcohol and the general food behavior of New Year celebrants throughout the nation, as related by newspaper reports, are indications of the great progress liquor control has made during these years of repeal," declared Michael Curtes, president of the National Retail Liquor Package Stores Association, Inc., today...
...yep rases a* y lorn ' The Empire Theatre has bean boolou for "Fresn Fields," tbe comedy by Ivor Novell© in which Margaret Anglin will return to the New York stage...
...To give the program balance, the management also is showing Tessle Matthews in "First a Girl," ! the new G.B...
...but the tone and quality of "Russet Mantle" brings hope for the American theatre—and American life...
...She's the wise and witty, slim and lovely creature she created in the Hammett opus, but in swifter paced action...
...At this show, the public will be able to witness, the greatest event if its kind since repeal...
...and animated with getafter-' em technique of the real old theatre...
...Monday, February 10, as the opening date...
...Lionel A twill...
...Build the Socialist Party and get subs for The New Leader to help build it...
...At the Lyceum...
...they struggle—Lights...
...The chorus consists of over 200 voices, the mandolin orchestra of 75, all members of the I.L.G.W.U...
...Shot!—he is dead...
...Myraa Lay in "Whipsaw" Opens Today at Capitol Myrna Loy, who became the surprise-girl of the screen two years ago when she played in Dashiell Hammett's "The Thin Man," with William Powell as her hero, returns to the screen today at the Capitol Theatre after more than a year's absence...
...Diversified Film Program at Fox Brooklyn Just to get away from gangland films and those depicting heroes ind heroines in luxuriant drawing rooms, Edward and Victor Halperin...
...is in the thrill-tradition...
...Some 2,500 workers marched around the building protesting the contemplated reduction of WPA rolls by 20,000, as recently announced by Mr...
...John recognises that no one man can change the world, and that it it Ate duty of today's youth to join ib the work of molding and welding the world to be...
...The good old melodrama has not died...
...Flynn comes to the RKO Palace today with all his gore and thunder, on a two-feature program that includes "Freshman Love," a new Warner Brothers' comedy with Frank McHugh, Patrician Ellis, • Warren Hull and Joe Cawthorn...
...he has saakaj her diary...
...Captain Blood" and Freshmas Love" at Palace "Captain Blood" in the person of Err...
...The demonstrators demanded that no relief worker be dropped until a job in private industry is found for him...
...Rialto's New Film "Dangerous Waters," a universal film starring Jack Holt, is current at the Rialto Theatre...
...and ropes across Chinatown or tracks through a burning prairie no longer hold the breathless gallery...
...Luigi Paparello will conduct the mandolin orchestra...
...their paths cross, and the girl's braggart and sex-frsnk hiding from herself wilts beside the lad's earnest seeking...
...All branches of the industry will be represented...
...Quick, racy dialogue carries them into obr understanding...
...by John, die farmer's son...
...Both Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, who wrote the eight songs that are heard in the film, are members of the cast—brought to the "charm school" by Oakie to teach the girls modern music at its best...
...East of Java," a new added feature, will accompany the showing of "Magnificent Obsession...
...The French film, however, was actually filmed in its setting amidst the Atlas Mts...
...Strand Holds "Cetlisq Zero" The fourth co-starring vehicle of James Cagney and Pat O'Brien, "Ceiling Zero," a Cosmopolitan production for First National release, is now in its second week at the Strand Theatre...
...In presenting "Dangerous Waters," the Rialto adheres to its policy of showing action films only, and in many ways this story is based upon the Morro Castle case but with a happy ending...
...Do two things...
...The film will open at the Rockefeller Canter Playhouse- Wednesday, January 29 "But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill...
...but he feels that he and Kay must find themselves, and frame at least an order in life for themselves, before they presume to speak of the flew world's ordering...
...Coming to the Center Jane Withers' latest starring picture "Paddy O'Day" will be the next attraction at the Center Theatre...
...But it is in no sense of social propaganda that tbe child-to-be animates them...
...it is an epic of peacetime flying, and was directed by Howard Hawks, maker of those aviation classics of years agone, "Wings" and "The Dawn Patrol...
...HEARTS ASTIR •7 W A N T A POLICEMANr By Rufus King and Milton Lazarus...
Vol. 19 • January 1936 • No. 4
