festival of Fun and Music: "The Red Mill"
festival of Fun and Music: "The Red Mill" KNIT YOUNGUAH HEADS STABE SHOW «? THE CAPITOL A wild-dwk dinner for the stage tree «t the Capitol '1'heatie is uu the agenda of Comedian Henny tenfman's...
...with the stage show II 'U -'—r...
...and fas a dull season its gifted humorists make it likely that "The Red Mill" will grind golden wheat into white flour to make dough for the producers for a good long while...
...Dn his first appearance Ileum Vnungman bet the stage crew that, he'd play the Capitol Theatre thiee fears in a row, with radio shows and movie contracts in hetween...
...If we can summon up interest in these wooden characters, there is tenseness in the situations as we wait...
...14 [ljwhT International's first French BP» "Coup...
...Watson and She!lock Holmes...
...Pretented by th* Meeirs...
...when he starts his third return engage BMnt in the new stars-in person Ihow next Thursday, Ot...
...kjK nlm, directerl by Jacques llfff* from an original mystery BPlal^drama by Pierre Veiy, was produced by Minerva Productions in Pans, and stars Fernand Le-doux, Georges Rollin, Hlanchette Brunoy, Roheit le Vigun and Maurice Schutz...
...Playhouse on Wed-[Peey...
...The play pictures Jane's pasje, and the way Venetia Anda to keep her eon ignorant of hi* feed anceatry, and pure...
...he hopes that in the light of the lieutenant's glory, his crimes will fade away...
...Young I,t...
...With Fred Stone (of Montgomery and Stone, who romped in the original opening, on Sept 24, 1906) watching from the orchestra, while daughter Paula produced it and daughter Dorothy performed, the current revival of "The Red Mill" got off in a whirling start The fun began when two suitcases were thrown from the inn window, followed by Michael O'Shea und Eddie Foy, Jr...
...J. T. S...
...But they really are funny...
...Thia simple story of the burgomaster** daughter who spurns the governor for the sailor still has charm...
...Dorothy Stone carries the dancing gracefully along...
...June Hevoe has little chance to act, in e loud, high-pitched role...
...BrtmdbenU Presented by Paula Slon* and Hunt Strom-bcry, Jr...
...he seems also to have been out of touch with its movement Even for his hunting-ground, Hollywood, this play of the bad man and the erring woman with heart of well, gold plate—is strictly lower grade...
...The songs are not given good treatment...
...PLAYHOUSE NOV...
...Written and staged by Edmund Goulding...
...caught behind the 8 hall, they re appear as waiter and interpreter for the inn, later doubling as Dr...
...in "The Red Mill" are "Beautiful Ifle of Our Dreams,' "In Old New York," "Every Day Is Ladies' Day With Mr," and Die best known ("Not because you're fair, dear...
...They double the audience with laughter, especially Eddie Foy...
...Really, however, he is not the son of millionaire ('lark and bis ex-Follies Girl wife Jane, hut the iinwnnted accidental arrival to Follies Girl Venetia Ryan and oh so bad gangster Miley Gay Ion...
...fraitler" to make it wild, befme Emling it to Stage Manager aid I aNoee "Kiss and Tell," the famous stage play, with Shirley Temple in the leading role, U the screen romance offered in eonjuni-tin...
...who seems fey, what with his loose talk and loose-jointed dancing A little later comes Odette Myrtil, as a Madame from Paris...
...Dialogue is in French anil there are complete dialogue titles in English...
...MhrUy in its fifth week at the W York Strand Theatre, is meet ljjlf' similar box office success in mm theatres all over the United dpi ft its first i 90 openings out HMLNow York City, "Mildred tW9t...
...fitaCt" ItATS AT M. f. STRAND jfc«V*4 Pierce," Warner Bros.' ¦f co-starring Joan Crawford...
...but this is at its best in the group numbers— fortunately, the ballet items tucked in because of the current vogue are not too obtrusive, when will some one have courage to give us a musical without a ballet...
...AT ? ST...
...By Vieter Herbert...
...It was clear from the audience at "The Ryan Girl" that the season had begun...
...Shu-bert in attoeiation with Albert de Courville...
...Mains Rouges" Pmch translates literally into of the Red Hands") will be Phaaed for its American Premiere l»e 16th St...
...but Victor Herbert's music includes many old favorites...
...IACareen and Zachary Scott...
...These two are Con Kidder and Kid Conner, Americans stranded in the Dutch null town...
...26, which also features the initial engage Merit of Lee Brown's orchestra...
...Hark has just won the Congresisonal Medal...
...and reassurance that the lieutenant will move on his happy way comes over the radio as Venetia weeps and the curtain falls...
...le won the bet, but being gen peas, he wants to pay it...
...November 14th, under the ¦•of "It Happened at the Inn" lg***a** of the previously men-***o ~xhe Goupi Family...
...But the play itself, save for its hauling in a war hero, is a ripe old melodrama, ready to fall from the bough...
...PREMIERE...
...when the guide (O'Shea) wants to show her through Ihe mill, she stops him — and the show with "I've been through the mill...
...Book and lyric* by Henry Blossom, Directed by Bitty Gilbert...
...Not your auburn hair, dear, Not your eyes Of blue") but "Because You're You...
...So he's hiving a duck, and will name it...
...Dane** tUged by Aid...
...At the Ziegfeld Theatre...
...has been held over in 188 IVHl/the company aiunumces BjJMlirfD AT THE INN...
...Goulding has (like his "villain," Edmund Ixiwe) been away from Broadway for a long lime...
...festival of Fun and Music: "The Red Mill" KNIT YOUNGUAH HEADS STABE SHOW «? THE CAPITOL A wild-dwk dinner for the stage tree «t the Capitol '1'heatie is uu the agenda of Comedian Henny tenfman's expenae a.coin...
...And a competent cast handles a workmanlike play in a thoroughly professional manner...
...Not because yonre true...
...At the, Plymouth Theatre...
...RIPE OLD MELODRAMA "THE RYAN GIRL...
...The film is the first of a series of outstanding new French productions to he distributed by MGM in this country...
...Conveniently, Miley had goodness enough to marry Venetia- though the child was at once adopted— very conveniently, for now the medal and the publicity bring Ryan back to claim his son...
...But it all seems to happen in an olden film...
...ftAY RIVIVAL "THE RED MILL...
...He has been in I'outh America, beyond extradition...
...even the . rustic way* of th* Masoned Una O'Connor become caricature...
Vol. 28 • October 1945 • No. 43
