Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 6, 1931, Winnipeg, Manitoba Theatres theatres i june 1931 Rio Winnipeg Clara Bow and Regis Toomey metropolitan sve Ngau John Barrymore Garrick Rio Capitol Carol pays to mighty r around London theatre world i from acting King at the old to Inigo Adele Dixon Las Susie Dean and Edith Sharp As Elizabeth heading an except j Ilo Nauy Good All the Book lovers j were at Tjie embassy tiie embassy theatre has again successfully challenged comparison by its revival of Behrmann comedy the second first produced at lovers of the Good v in 11 c t r j wu1 playhouse in Namons Well a Iissa with j Vaa who play production act changed la May the compar tolls has not of Oft rep2ated advice to that does not perhaps play Clark Storey with 21one the finished technique of Noel the Good who created the but Jone Whatmore is quite As Good As Massey in the part of per Austin the unprepossessing i f fat it throw wans of a whose persistent wooing of s and know Monica is rewarded t world and with Rhomb Chapman As a Akroyd to v showing is Una in versatility in leap Marie dressier Polly Morse those caught Short gals in their greatest comedy reducing feature love a comedy scream Tyler in phantom of the Waltane reporter prices before the curtain Leonora the Young actress who has excited the attention of More than one plays and Joyce another principal lady of the embassy Stock plays the Rich with whose Fortune the impoverished Clark Storey is finally Man and Superman Man and Superman is a difficult play to tackle and perhaps with two exceptions it is a Little beyond the scope of the Macdona Alice a new looking very at Tractive in a White lace Success fully conveyed Annes efforts to be the Femme Fatale but she has an unattractive voice and an irritating Way of almost a Lisp at erne Percy rather dwarfed the rest of the cast by overemphasis ing his so that the play be came More or less a series of John Tanner Gloria Swanson is at the Garrick theatre in her latest in and the Ever popular Star proves herself just As Good a Comedi Enne As she was in the Days of the slapstick variety of screen fun the Story is announced As tense and it certainly in some but there is such a plenteous measure of comedy that one almost forgets the sterner whether dramatic or the glorious Swanson is mistress of her As she is mistress of the hearts of her College today and monday Conrad Nagl general Sidney slim Summ Cirque and Zazzu Pitts in bad sister the girl wanted selected featurettes Star Laurel and Oliver the screens funniest in chickens come the Lone defender and Oswald to cultivate a British accent for his first As a William Haines took prior to starting work in just a one Day there was a wait on the better hurry Haines informed Jack his or i might lose All my elocution and Start saying dese and dose again Jack Holt got into pictures As an extra and double through his ability As a having previously been a the names of Betty sue Carol and Evelyn Brent do not appear on radios list of 1s31 stars just ten cameras were used in making each scene of the Tennis films in which William Tilden is to shots were taken from Many angles to get every motion Gloria Swanson in Garrick film has vivid role in her latest drama of tangled indiscreet there is very Little of a sophisticated nature about the simply Strong implications of that has happened before the picture really and the narrative devel Ops into a problem Gloria shall stand aside or Tell her younger sister that the Man she loves is the one with whom she Gloria had had an Early the maintains its interest and adds materially to the Swanson Wreath of screen a chapter of the Finger furnishes and a Beautiful coloured a journey to with Island Are also with news events rounding out a delightful Constance Bennett and Hedda hop per recently appeared at big social Brawl Clad in gowns of identical style and greatly to the subsequent distress of the Marie readers most prize pos session is a faded press clipping con Taining this line in a dramatic re View the versatile Young miss whom we discovered in the chorus thursday wins the Golden Apple for her shapely highlights of the stagehand screen in review George Arlliss in the shows what Good acting can do with the most hackneyed theatrical and the most conventional As the Semi decrepit millionaire ordered on a rest cure by a conscientious and unimaginative George shows How the real cure for business fag is a mild hair of the bog that had worried the drugs and pills go out of the win Dow and the rundown tissues Are stimulated Back to normalcy by a new Brand of business the show is pure with Noah Tully mar shall and other appropriate figures for keeps the audience fascinated for the duration of the not a not a not a not a in the whole with Wallace Beery Hes the who had a Metropolis under his sinister a marvellous characterization even better than his Butch of the big and what a cast Lewis Stone Jean Harlow John Mack Brown Marjorie Graham Mcnamee comedy twisted tales intriguing play at metropolitan and the result the millionaire shows what can be done in the Way of providing merriment and sparkle when intelligence and humor Are give Nan untrammelled we would say the millionaire was a very Dis Tinct 7s drama ailing hey Wood of the new York in search of his Dally stumbled Over that Lardy annual of discussion what the matter with the drama Broun agreed with several exerts that it is and Why be suggests because of the High costs of so costly is that process that a play must run about 200 nights before it can be a financial he suggests deflation of the simpler Sharp cutting of overhead and costly setting and unnecessary All that the drama has to do to be a Success is o project emotion until that time the he will be but a re vie of the 193031 new York theatre suggests that has fallen for the usual seasoned Wall of the and admittedly More than been lost in unsuccessful musical comedy productions since last but to offset that the arrival of fierce summer weather in new York when theatre going Falls off badly found 35 shows being per formed on against Only 29 a year of those 26 could be called while Only 19 of last years crop could be so named Howard of the Herald Tri confirms the suspicion that Broun was looking Lor copy rather than he the last in the hardest times this hardhat continent has Ever has been just As Good As the last three or so there you the Savoy opera hard boiled this world May or but you cant seep Gilbert and Sullivan revivals Are in been for months in new Are playing to one writing of crazy one of newest of the musical comedy apologized for the harsh Ness of his criticisms saying he had seen Pinafore the Day before the latter had been with me All had faded for the moment under the Rush and Glare of crazy but As i was walking Home at it came humming and smiling Back to and the new revue became so much on a tin sheer or some profound change in the whole texture of life that explains Gilbert Sullivan certainly no one will remember our crazy quilts fifty years from v crime films although much has been made of the Rush of crime films to Holly Woods with attackers and de fenders rising on All the wave has not been nearly so Large As most people make Only 11 per of the films of 1930 dealt broadly with the subject of and this far As can be the percentage will drop to four or five per this is not if you take the legitimate you will find Terr similar and if you take the average Magazine of the you will find a similar state of Hollywood has not gone crime if it there would been Cuse for a lot of if it All came up to the High Standard of Little Caesar and City the latter currently running at the Rio this picture of Gary Coopers not much to recommend it in some if anyone wants to see what the can do in the of depleting Speed and fierce action and dramatic ten let them seize the Chance to it a picture with first class and anyone who pays attention to the films he sees understands what with poor and hackneyed film version of has in Star role Johir Barrymore a faithful on the screen of the British stage is the current attraction at the metropolitan with John Barrymore in the role originally played of sir Herbert Beerbohm the present reviewer saw in the original provincial Laurence probably prejudiced in favor of these found Barrymore characterization of mad a thoroughly efficient portrayal of Dumaurier sinister Barrymore makes up and his when he is hypnotizing Are rather although he passed through some moments of it was in the dramatic episodes in which he did his most effective it will be Long remembered by those who see the film Marian in the role of first played by Dorothea in is and possesses a Sweet but she was not con As theatre frivolities today too Many wives next week the face at the window chorus dancers orchestra and talkies before and 20e children Loc reserved Byllee Donald As the and Lumsden As were la excellent and the supporting cast is it is a dynamic role for and on chief interest a Laurel Hardy and news including speaking on the round out the extras pay meagre of extras in Hollywood in letter Only 833 averaged one Days work a week or 95 averaged two one Hall Days a none record of having daily their pay was quoted As follows with every major studio bidding for his Skippy has finally been sold Down the River by Hal Roach to the acclaimed by critics As the most natural actor on the screen will be starred in his own right by this Organiza which will thereby make a bid for the juvenile to Paramount has led All the rest in this lucrative Field with such productions As Skippy and Tom this company wanted Jackie tout their rivals had first Call on the Star of our because Hoach releases mis comedies through per worked for Day per for a per for a and approximately 5 per in sex 310 a the average daily wage was the daily placement of men for 1933 was 545 of 243 of Caieto today and All next week Tivoli 1 to 7 general the Brilliant English Success Toung also Stan Wollter in another Fine mess Osborne last times today general from 1 to 7 adults 2sc Loe prodigal with Lawrence Esther Ralston Cliff Roland tonne passion Flower Eail Brook Story of a mothers love general in next attraction Joan Crawford dance the Magn scope screen pictured oms latest invention Andjus pc contrast sate in their latest Sec Ovid in Asmik always Good seats mouse the Moose Canadian Paramount news shipmates Dorothy Cliff Ernest Torrence he fascinated you in the strangers May kiss and now he makes an auspiciously Gay debut As a full fledged baseball grounds Good bathing open All night a if mile drive private dining booms two dancing Halls big banquet sails added subjects Johnny Farrell former open coif in under Par a new team Thelma Zasu in uts co pea Eaic news Chicken also a la with Dixie entertainers every today Gary Sidney to atty St keeps Ler and Moran Dan Ekoos cover charge includes cabaret entertainments and Large picnic grounds and Coffee 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