Lavish Luxury and Fanny Brice Fill the Follies
Lavish Luxury and Fanny Brice Fill the Follies The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley "1IEGFELD FOLLIESr 193 Edition. Lyric* by Ira Gershwin. Mimic by Vertutn Duke. SkeUhcg by David F...
...Leon Leonidoff produced "The March of Light," in which a cast of three hundred artists, musicians, singers and...
...The balk at the routine falls to Bob Hope and Hugh O'Coftnell, old reHablea, and Gertrude Niesen...
...On Sunday, March 1, the New Theatre League will present the Theatre of Action in a new play "Crime" by Michael Blankfort at the Civic Repertory Theatre...
...For example, Anthony Brown, director of " T o bacco Road," is directing "Running Dogs," the new play by John Wexley which will be presented for the first time anywhere on this evening...
...the first motion picture of their kind ever taken...
...We arc all fans for Fanny...
...Chatterbox' and 'Professional Soldier' at Albee "Chatterbox," a tailor-made story to suit the talents of Anne Shirley, is on the screen at the R K O Albee Theatre on a program that features "Professional Soldier" with Victor McLaglen and Freddie Bartholomew...
...Harriet Hoctor, especially in her airplane dance, a truly aerial floating of dainty g r a c e . An excellent screening (announcement only) of a super S U P E R motion picture, combining the features of all previous films...
...A third episode tolls of the Dr...
...Marking an unusual departure from the conventional type of screen story, Miss Shirley's new RKO Radio vehicle presents the starlet in the most unique role of her career.Laughs and thrills intermingle at the Rialto Theatre, where "The Bohemian Girl," a comic operetta starring Laurel and Hardy, is in first Broadway showing...
...But these are the Follies, untamed, unashamed (with a good definition of a mermaid), fast, noisy, colorful, frohcful Follies, "a national institution, glorifying the American" Kim History View, A series of five motion picture programs, "Our Yesterdays in the Films, 1896 to 1982," is being presented by the Film Group of the New York Adult Education Council on five Sunday evenings, beginning February 16, at the New School, 66 West 12th St...
...Those who know their theatre are aware of the dearth of good comedians and farceurs on Broadway...
...Prisoner of Shark Island" at Center Theatre—New Issue of March of Time Shows Julien Bryan Pictures of Russia Father Divine, Harlem mystery man, and believed by tens of thousands of his followers to be God, is presented in the eleventh issue of "March of Time...
...Enrolling a cast, however, with his limited knowledge of American players, brought him to Krakeur for advice...
...Margaret Sullavan is starred is the first, a deeply emotional story, by Ursula Parrott...
...Judy Canpva also could more of her gauche humor...
...These are the frivols oi the Follies...
...1 membership, with admission to the first program, February 16...
...And so it is that "Mainly for Lovers" comes to the 48th Street Theatre under the sponsorship of Richard W. Krakeur and B. Charles-Dean, Wednesday night...
...16, at the Civic Repertory Theatre, with members of its acting company •riving "Picket Line," a gay satire on the picket line situation as Noel Coward, Shakespeare, Chekov, and other notables might see it...
...none at door...
...He served for many years as general manager to both Sam H. Harris and Edgar Selwyn...
...The Theatre of Action, producers of "Newsboy" and "The Young Go First" will be directed, in this production by Alfred Saxe and Ella Kazan of "Paradise Lost...
...Enlisting a cast, however, was not so simple a task...
...In addition to holding over "The Petrified Forest," the Music Hall also continues to present one of its most unusual stage events, a spectacle entitled "The March of Light...
...Soviet) into their dancing...
...Even in an inferior sketch, such as temperamental "Baby Snook?," rival of Shirley Temple...
...Ruth Draper in New Sketch For her fifth Sunday evening performance February 15 at the Booth Theatre, Ruth Draper will present one sketch not seen previously in New York this season, " A Quiet Morning in Bed...
...The new Russia, with its teeming factories and shops brought fcbout by the Red state's new national rr.ood of "Speed Production," is also shown in the film...
...Arthur Margetson, therefore, was recalled from London, Miss Dorothy Gish from another play she was about to rehearse for...
...Clifford...
...Tango," based on Vida Hurst's novel, with Marion Nixon is the co-feature...
...The film is being shown currently in conjunction with "The Prisoner of Shark Island" at the Center Theatre...
...New Theatre League to Prosent "Crime" at Ctvic Rep...
...A wow of a skit on the New Deliverers, of the F.S.A...
...dancers take pajt...
...And, as is the custom in such cases, Krakeur read the play and chuckled through its three acts of sophisticated fun and badinage...
...Leroy llartrr.an discovery, making painless dentistry a reality rather than a slogan...
...The movies, unfortunately, have something to do with this shortage...
...The Britisher, enamored of the comedy when he saw it on a London stage, bought the American rights and booked passage for the United States...
...ace provide that theatre with a diversified program this week...
...The man who/ wants to borrow $100 is either a chiseler or a Republican spy...
...Rebel Arts Group te Take Part ! • Theatre Union's See* day Night Benefit Rebel Arts, one of the oldest and best-established of the workers theatre groups, will take an important part in the Theatre Union Sunday Night Benefit, to be held Sunday evening, Feb...
...Krakeur is not new to the managerial ranks...
...As uvial, ^ht Follies are a spread oL' color and Costumes, a number of clever dancers and trickster?—and Fanny Brice...
...Tickets from the Film Group of the N ew Y o r k Adult Education Council, 222 Fourth Ave...
...That's for the next four years...
...One must not forget Josephine Baker, back from long success in -France...
...The Russian pictures shown in this issue of "March of Time" were taken by Julien Bryan, noted world traveler and lecturer, and reveal the results of the Soviet's first Five-Year Plan...
...100,000,000 is lent without security...
...SkeUhcg by David F rccdman...
...Fill up the holes...
...One more tunnel and the whole Middle West will cave in...
...Cherry and June Preisser are a good dancing team...
...Diversified Film Program rt Palace Theatre "Next Time We Love" and "Pr...
...In thus extending friendly help to another theatre organization, Rebel Arts is in the company of some of the best-known people of the theatre world...
...A New Producing Firm Enlivens the Broadway Theatre When Dorothy Gish, Arthur Margetson, Leo G. Carroll and Rachel Hartzell display their comedic histrionics on the stage of the 48th Street Theatre on Wednesday evening...
...as in their diffent way are the two tapping darkies, the little Nicholas brothers, who should be given more to do...
...Thus, instead of merely suggesting actors and actresses, Krakeur decided to become a partner in the producing venture, which pleased Charles-Dean no end...
...But how spend...
...These would be Richard W. Krakeur and B. Charles-Dean, an unusual combination since the former is an American and the latter an Englishman...
...And in that modernistic dance, she not only is ravishingly funny, but she pokes a keen satiric foot through the pretensions of all these young movement-makers who put the revolution (industrial, political...
...The Clever Dijmmy," "Intolerance" by D. W . Griffith, "Sunrise" by P. W . Mumau, and "Steamboat Willie," an early Walt Disney...
...On the program there will be also "On a Porch in a Maine Coast Village," " V i v e La France," "Three Women lind Mr...
...The public is invited to these programs...
...Federal Spending Administration), one of the best of its kind, showing the predicament of the man who must spend ISO million dollars a day...
...Every river is dammed...
...Feb...
...Following this he tried his fortune with Paul Muni in a dramatic play, "This One Man...
...As a producer on his own he sponsored a musical comedy success of several seasons ago, "Marjorie," in which were starred such players as Elizabeth Hines, then in her prime, Andrew Tombes, Skeets Gallagher and Ethel Shutta, Ziegfeld luminary...
...Musie Hall Holds Over "Petri* fied Forest" and "March of Light" V Leslie Howard and Bette Davis, whose first reunion on the screen since their memorable performance in "Of Human Bondage," takes place in "The Petrified Forest," are repeating their former triumph...
...Frederick Lewis Allen will speak at the first .program, and the movies to be shown are "Faust," "Queen Elizabeth" with Sarah Bernhardt, „A Trip to the Moon," "The Great Train Robbery," and others...
...The presentation is in honor of the opening of the new home in Rockefeller Center of the New York Museum of Science and Industry, and it depicts, theatrically, the progress of light through the ages...
...fessional Soldier" at the RKO PsJ...
...The c h o r u s , compelling admiration through its pulchritude and many beautiful costumes, without which (despite the words of the boys who come on first) the Follies would not be...
...and Leo G. Carroll induced to forsake his role in the current "May Wine...
...The other end of the partnership is B. Charles-Dean, London impresario, who met up with Krakeur in a strange way...
...In addition to Fanny...
...Subsequently, and chiefly as a result of Muni's performance in this opus, the actor was induced to go to Hollywood where he quickly became one of America's leading talkie stars...
...19, in Philip Johnson's comedy, "Mainly For Lovers," Broadway playgoers will see a new producing firm launched...
...there is something ChapUaesque atmyt him that holds the Sous...
...Membership subscriptions, $5 for a reserved seat for the series...
...At tkt Whiter Garden...
...Fun by Fanny...
...Stan Kavanagh slips over some humorous (and very dexterous) juggling...
...and Eve Arden is another who could entertain more, in her casual bored way, than she's allowed...
...Later programs include "The N e w York Hat," 1912, with Mary Pickford...
...and Victor McLaglen is cast in the title rale of "Professional Soldier," a Damon Runyon adventure romance with Freddie Bartholomew, Gloria Stnart and Michael Whalen in the sapporting leads...
...Music of the period will accompany the films...
...Manhunt" and "Tango" at Brooklyn Strand "Manhunt," a G-Man thriller with Ricardo Cortez, William Gargan, Marguerite Churchill and "Chic" Sale in the leading roles, heads the double feature program this week at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre...
...Harold Johnsrud, now in "Winterset," Helen Cross, noted teacher of dramatic speech, John O'Shaugnessy, of the cast of "Let Freedom Ring," Peter Xantho, who has been stage-manager of most of the Theatre Union's plays, Jane Alden, well-known musical comedy singer, who has just returned from a tour of song concerts with Sigmund Spaeth, are some of those who are joining with the Theatre Union Studio in putting on this unusual program...
...The Petrified Forest" is now in its second week at the Radio City Music Hall...
...we'd like more of her vigorous body and less of her wistful voice...
...Fanny is worth the Brice (as one might say with a cold in the head, these d a y s ! ) ; in something gvod—like the struggle for the sweepstakes ticket, or the Major Bones amateur hour—she's an Orient pearl from Oyster Street...
Vol. 19 • February 1936 • No. 7
