Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 18, 1932, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free press , 18, Capitol. Edmund Lowe constaj4ce. Cubal Nuj Tad Carole. Lombard in John Jeanette Loff w .4 scene from King ofoa.7.z11" Roth clix tech Toh Rick Are w1tk us h metropolitan Garrick comedy is fast Happy As old lady when Barbara Stanwyck plays the part of an old lady like she did in so she is it takes tier Back to the Days when she really 1 started like most Little _ ii j p i girls she used to go up in the Garret Edna May Oliver Heads Baj dig out faded wineries and play at i being grown she gets the same Leeling now acting older before the j cameras and insists it is great fun. Met. Film has Many surprises comedians in ladies of the jury King of jazz lyceum s offer commencing with a rather drama tic murder trial. Ladies of the t. The Garrick theatre develops into. An intimate and Jii Ghl amusing in dish into the intrigues of a. Jury room that chamber in which the jurors Are locked until they agree oni in t 1 f c their verdict. Heading the cast in costly spectacle of Bellg this presentation is the comedy favorite. Edna May Oliver incl to her Are credited Many laughs but others contribute fun in no measure. Among them Are Ken Murray Long a vaudeville favorite. Hoscoe ates Kitty Kelly Lita Chevret find Jill Esmond the last named in the role of defend it is a Story or ladies and. Gentle men on a jury can agree Only to disagree and it speedily plunges into funny situations As Well As revealing and music is glittering presentation coming As a refreshing change from the dramas melodramas society and comedies of recent stories Are always with us is Clever Story starring Ruth Chatterton pull of surprising and amusing situations the Rich Are always with current photoplay at the metropolitan theatre May be de scribed truthfully As a distinctly Clever screen offering. Although it deals mainly with marriage and divorce on. The United states plan there is Little or no sophisticated stuff in it. And some the dialogue is splendidly witty. Indeed it is one of the most enjoyable Cinema entertainments offered at the met. For a Long Long time explosions of applause and laughter amply testifying to the cordial appreciation of. The audience. Ruth Chatterton s role that of a woman whose soul is strained by warring desires for the Man she loved and the Man she wanted is one of the Best of Lier screen career and she has Given us Many Good ones. Two lovers intimate yet la Nocent Ruth chatter ii and George Brent put Over really line perform ances and keep patrons in constant expectancy As to what John , As the Lisband also turns in an Excel Lent account of Lii self. But chief honors next to those belonging to the Star go to pretty Bette Davis. Her work results in a veritable Triumph for herself while at no time usurping the Kleng lights at the expense of the Star. The metropolitan under Harold Green come through brilliantly with some excellent show boat music in. Which the met. Quartet is used. Alfredo. Shepherd and Ariel Grant do a pretty song and dance turn and Marshall Reid scores another song months King of jazz is paying a Welcome return visit to the City now j j being screened at the lyceum theatre. The gorgeous film features Paul Whiteman and his internationally t7. Highlights of Thi drama stage and screen in review any English playwright during the last forty years is the even fights and so Well do the play music dance Beaity and res perform Clever As miss Oliver is she does Mioc seem to be technicolor outstanding. I evidently no expense was spared to quotation from tie London times to Lowell Sherman s direction is produce this amazing spectacle. There to advertise one of Lon Yttri ratable much of the attraction is no Story attached to it but the Don s present attractions. The new play of the film since he has made the i presentation consists of something is musical and its author is most of the opportunities and keeps a revue on. Most elaborate scale. Ronald Mackenzie a Brand new dra the action moving at a fast clip. Is a Marvel of camera wizardry Matist. Desmond. Maccarthy la the gloom Chaser ladies of the jury with costly costumes and intelligently new statesman and nation de can be said to fill the Bill. Patrons arranged lighting effects. There is scr Ldes it As the Best play by a enjoy noting the manner in a single sequence that is without much of the inside of jury duly., around miss Oliver there revolve j famous orchestra but there Are so bickering charges innuendoes and Many Superb turns that it is a riot Best first play written by was rather because i Felt i had to do it Shakespeare s one Flop there Are not Many chances now Adays to see a professional premiere of a shakespearean play. Pfow York was Given that experience last week when the players club presented troilus and so far As is known this play has been acted Only once before on the continent when the Yale dramatic club staged it in 1916. The players have Given it a production As richly Beautiful can be imagined and live drawn some of the stage s finest aristocrats including Edith. Barrett Jerome Lawler and Otis Skinner. Yet with All this assistance the critics of 1932 seem to be of the same mind As those of the sixteen hundreds who declared. Troilus and cres Sida to lie Shakespeare s Only if it has Only been produced a. Bare half times in which jurors re act toward each other jts Appeal and there Are so Many after being locked up together for j captivating features that one almost several Days or even hours. Hesitates to make selection. However the Short subjects Are of excellent if there is one number that is worthy Quality gramme and add flavor to a pro i of prior mention it is the dramatize of humor capable acting first on the the and speedy e. S. Writing film stories rhapsody in histrionic Talent is there too in Large measure land Eye filling spectacles Are at times i positively stunning. It is done in i color throughout and there is so much kaleidoscopic effect that the Elsie Janis and her Youthful and ev6 occasionally fails to catch it All. Devoted husband. Gilbert other enjoyable numbers Are it have arrived in Hollywood to stay happened in Romeo and my bridal the although Elsie has become quite a asic excllu3iteiy and radio attraction he is in great de. Romantic turn Mand in Hollywood to write original the artists Are John Boles stories for the screen. Young Wilson Jeanette i of. Stanley Smith bin Crosby and hundreds of extras. Film handsome enough to Click in to have Cost around Tures. But so far he says nothing to prochile Worth every cent. H. E. S. Garrick last show 10 open ,12 noon., today general plead guilty it s a pleasure Garrich magic carpet cartoon _ Novelty reel remember news detective Relf House of mystery lat. Till 6 o clock 25c i eve. 4oc new dramatist i have seen for Many the scene is Laid in Galicia after the and the plot deals with an Anglo jewish family who Are hanging on to some property in the Hope of striking Oil. The chief characters include Wilhelm Schindler the easy going warm hearted lather his wife and her daughter Mary Preston and Schindler s son Joseph the offspring of an earlier mrs. Schindler who has died. One of Joseph s Brothers turns lip with his american Fiancee Irene Batuner a hard boiled modern Type yet capable of j the intervening centuries it has real feeling. She Falls in love with Lor common sense the Manitoba drama Joseph. The Schindler finally strike Oil and Are about to sell their property when Mary Preston Joseph s Stepsister who is secretly in love with him tried to drown herself the morning alter she has seen him going to Irene s room. Joseph rushes after her and is him self drowned trying to save her. She survives. According to or. Maccarthy the play shows Happy traces of chek Hov s influence. Comedy predominates until the last scene of the last act which shows the family about to leave Galicia after Joseph s death. It is at this Point that the audience learns How much the father cared for his lost son and How Mich feels than deeper Mary. Emotions Irene the sudden shift from comedy to tragedy trans forms All the chief character and reveals them As just the opposite of what they seemed to he in their More frivolous moments. Visitors to London this summer will certainly not want to miss seeing a play which is so splendidly acted so Well produced and to inherently Worth while. Paul Robeson s retrain. Night after night Broadway audiences pour out of show boat hum Ming to themselves the haunting refrain of old Man which during the two hours or so of the performance has so fastened Ikemir into their minds that they cannot get rid of it. If the crowds who listen Are so deeply what does the repeated sir Ging of this Melody week after week do t6 Paul Robeson himself one would imagine that after the thousands of times he has Siquig it would become a perfect curse an old Man of the sea always with him aware and asleep. But he says that is not so. He has. Learned to let the song be a part of him so Long As he is in the theatre and then throw it off when he leaves although that was not possible when he took on the when he was first learning it he carried the song with him wherever he went. Music did t matter. At first the it was not a song in Early rehearsals. It was a poem to he recited. He would Thunder the phrases Roll them. 5n his tremendous voice with no thought of the tune. This went on for weeks. Day and night the lines of the song ran through his mind and. Whenever he could he let them come out in resonant vocal expression. Over and Over he would chant one single line try it in a rumble he he would would whisper it. The accent Here the accent hundreds and hundreds of times he would say just three or Jour words Over and Over. For four Long months that song lived in Robeson As the germs or a fever. He tried to get rid of them but the. Mental quinine he used did no Good. The fever had to run its course and then he was free. I Don t Snow what t would have done had the song been a. Cheaper the said. I can t imagine what happens to people who have to sing. Had songs night after night. It must drive them crazy. When i was haunted by old. Man river1 it. Was. Not because the bored me by its necessary repetition jts the show ran on for Mont is. It atrial play reasons. It in t a Good new British studios with the opening a Short time ago of their new studios at Shep Herd s Bush the Gaumont British picture corporation is aiming to concentrate All their own resources and those of the studios at isling ton in one irn lied Enterprise. The new studios have Cost a Quarter of a million pounds and Are said to to the most up to Date of their kind in Europe. Tinder the direction of Michael Balcon More than 40 pictures will be produced at these studios Dur lug the next 12 months. The list of subjects already selected includes a screen version of Johaun Strauss s popular opera die Fleder nisus the Good companions by j. B. Priest Ley who has agreed to write a new Story for the screen bargain base ment Cecil Robert s love Story the Man from Toronto a comedy by Douglas Murray Bretherton a dramatic Story by w. F. Morris Bri Tannia of Billingsgate a comedy by miss Christine Jope Slade and Sewell opera Ball by Max Meu Felcht an d Rome express a mystery Story by Clifford Grey. There will also be two further films with Jack Hulbert in the chief a screen version of Ian Hay s comedy the midship maid and King of the Ritz a multilingual picture to be directed by Carmine Gallo ii. Besides the films to be produced in this country the Gaumont Brit ish corporation have made arrange ments for number of. Productions to be made by them. 5n conjunction with the Ufa company of Germany. Work on the first these Happy 3ver after has already begun in Berlin. Berlin takes to Sylvia Sidney american films a Germany have been languishing in popularity for a Good Many months. All last Winter Berlin movie goers turned a very cold shoulder to Hollywood productions hut at present the fact that five different productions Are Heing shown in the German capital at one time tells a differ ent Story. Germany has suddenly taken to its heart one of the Young Hollywood stars Sylvia Sidney. According to reports the press simply can t find enough adjectives of enthusiasm. For this Young actress. The comment one reads most often is that at last Hollywood has got ten away from its sugar dolls to a player without Beauty but whose expressive lace mirrors her inner most emotions. And they catch in her smile a strange suggestion of the Orient. German fans cannot see enough of her. They first saw hut did not hear her in a synchronized version 01 City in which her voice was taken by the promising Young German actress Trude Burg. They got to know mi.55 Sidney completely in All american which was Given with the original american voices Only a few German titles being added to help the non Anglo Saxon auditors. This film was treated very seriously by the press a and greeted As a Worth. While attempt to pict Rize the Dreiser novel. The Manitoba drama league has received an invitation from officials of the British drama league to be come a member of the larger organization which it gladly accepted. Our provincial league has to a certain extent been modelled on the British drama league although As yet Only a Start has been made. The move ment in great Britain has grown to such a surprising degree in the last few years that the organization there has become highly complicated and wide spread. Late in May the final contest of their sixth National Festi Val of Community drama was held in the Garrick a theatre London. The players club Beaconsfield were the winners with a performance of chek Hov s on the High and they were presented with lord Howard de Walden s Silver cup by sir Donald Maclean. The second place was a tie Between the Liverpool play goer s club in Eugene o Neill s in the zone and the Mardy dramatic society in the j. O. Francis comedy. The Edinburgh women s athletic club dramatic society won the next place with a curious piece of anti War propaganda called symphony ill in by James Wallace Bell. Or. Clifford Bax miss Auriol Lee and or. Nicholas Hannen were the adjudicators Lor this annual cup final of the Amateur dramatic societies. An English paper reports that or. Bax announcing the awards to the crowded House said there was some dissension. Among the judges As to the Dis sentient proved to be or. Hannen who with some reason one thought preferred the Liverpool performance and that of the Mardy they had finally agreed that beacons Field had won on Points. Or. Bax praised the winners for beginning with a Beautiful picture Well grouped and Well coloured for choosing a difficult play and Lor producing it with an easy flowing movement. The acting was Good As a. Whole and. Particular Julian Burgess As Kama. The gave admirable performances. He thought that the Liverpool players gave one of the Best fights he had on the stage and that the Mardy company delighted everybody with their portraits of country people. Miss Auriol Lee said that she did not want to make any rude remarks about the All the film Industry employed camera men and lots of other but she was glad to see that All Over England there were people who not Only preferred the drama but enjoyed working to make the theatre for themselves. She would not criticise the production Side of the shows they had just seen because she knew the difficulties of transferring to a strange stage without much rehearsal for a single performance but she congratulated them All round for what they had done. Then or. Hannen came Forward and with the Light of Battle in his Eye gave Sulci an encomium of the Liverpool company s performance that it was easy to see he Felt he still had a Good Case for them and the applause which greeted his one of the Best performances he had seen for a Long time showed that the acid Deuce at least sympathized with his Point of View. He particularly praised the characterization of the sailors from different countries whom o Neill has crowded together in the of c sle of the tramp Steamer. Speaking next of the Mardy company he chose or. D. M. Jones As Dicky Bach Del be cause it was so difficult to play a Fey character without toppling Over into or. Hansen addressing the players As a whole asked them not to be frightened of the speak up and let them have criticism often made against or. Hannen s London col leagues on the professional stage. Sir Donald Maclean said that the drama league s work had the whole hearted support of the government but that did not carry any Promise of financial assistance. There were societies in the league this year As against few years ago. Six Hundred and eighteen societies had entered for the festival. Or. W. A. Darlington announced the Winner of the Best new plays submitted during the festival. The Best play by any author was by miss Mary Packington and the unpublished play by a new author was they refused to be Resur by or. N. K. Smith. During the coming weeks this Coli my will be open for the answer ing of any questions which Are of general interest to those concerned with Amateur dramatics. All such questions should be sent in to miss Mary a. Wood Secretary of the Manitoba drama league Manitoba agricultural College Winnipeg and they will he answered from week to week in the drama league column. Several questions which have Al ready been sent in Are being answered As follows question to. You suit your play to the ability of the players and choose accordingly or choose your play Lor its educational value and try to build up the ability of your players to correctly interpret the play is a mistake to choose a play beyond the of your players. If the group you Are work ing with have not acted before it is Well to begin with a simple one act play parts which your players Are understand. Try to persuade your players if they wish to act to study plays con Tiu outly. As they work on plays they will acquire ability to interpret More difficult parts. The person directing a group of Amateur players must have idea of How he different parts play interpreted and try. To Haye his work out his idea discuss the Jablay with your players by All Means and get their ideas of the different characters. It May help to clarify your own. But the director s interpretation the play must necessarily be the one to be used in unfolding the plot. Question no. Player masters his lines quickly interprets his pare Well in a certain number of practices another player is slower in memorizing his lines needs three times Asma by practices but in the end you know he will give a credit Able performance. Now How will you keep and stimulate the interest of the first player so that he will not grow stale on the Job while repeating the Pra of clue in order to give the second player the needed Drill must be a. Spirit of co operation in the rehearsing a play. Each player must give a hat assistance he can to others. If one player memorizes More quickly than another. Die can do much in rehearsal to help the slower actor. Some players learn their lines More easily at rehearsal than alone. Because a player memorizes quickly it does not follow that lie will act Well always and the one with the less tentative memory May prove the better actor in the end. It is More a matter of studying lines and understanding the ideas behind them than merely memorizing them that is the Valu Able thing in acting. The director of a play should give individual assistance and rehearsal where pos sible especially to those players whom he feels tire Worth encouraging even though obey May be slow in picking up their parts. Question to. The adjudicators consider that the play. Bach. Man. Poor is not suitable for amateurs Why was this play included in the list of Royalty plays sent out play is considered by the executive of the Manitoba drama league a Good play for Amateur production. It contains excellent character parts. A suggestion of dialect is All that is required but the characters should be cast As nearly to Type As possible. The play has been prod iced in Winnipeg by several groups in at least one of which no one had Ever before acted. In Ench Case the play went very Well. Like tin pan Alley Ramon Novarro has a piano in his dressing room As an Aidi to practice in singing. In a nearby dressing room Lionel Barrymore also has piano which he likes to play. When they both Start studio employees insist that part of the place sounds like tin Gnu Alley. Under the direction of Irving cum Breeden and George Haft. The lat. Mugs with a cast including Alison Ter player scored a great i u Skipworth George Barbler John Rinaldo in scar face two Days before the signal Honor which the publishers committee conferred upon Only yesterday by de sign iting it As Carl purchased this unusual Book by Frederick Lewis Allen. The Book has already sold Over copies which is phenomenal in a year like the present. Plans for its adaptation have not As yet been made watching Matty Kemp in the opening sequences of. Will Rogers next Fox comedy Down to Liow in production. Fox film executives handed the Young actor a Long term contract. And m and d fillers a skeets Gallagher returns to Para mount for a leading role in merrily we go to which incidentally will probably be changed to some cooler title because of objections raised toy will Hays. Other players will be Frederic March Sylvia Sidney George Irving and Adrianne Allen v the spor Tang widow Lias been announced As the final title of the picture which has been in preparation under the tentative title the comtess of and which is scheduled to go into production soon Sally Ellers is Hack in Hollywood after a Short vacation in her Home town new York City. She spent most of the return journey study. Ing her lines for the next James Dunn Sally Eilers picture the title of which has not As yet been announced. It will go into production soon As Dunn completes his role in. Society return engagement of the greatest musical show Ever produced Paul Whitman John and. A Host of other Gamow 11 to 1, 15c 1 to 6, 25e i to 10 bamony_____2-ic 10 i a 1-Eook. Kllc last 2 features for the Price of 1 Chester Morris and Alison Lloyd Tallulah Bankhead and Irving Piche in the cheat this to Corsair me to present in just the Type of picture you would select for her. Erich Are always with us a daring Story of reckless wealth and splendor also meet miss Chatterton new fascinating leading Man George Brent he s die latest movie thrill summer scale of Balcony prices Harold greek men were cold cases women were warm mysteries 6 court of him Mas place off Ciary Evelyn Brent in 1 Iii Carole Lombard Chester Morris pleasure i Arlington Polly of the Marion Daviet adult Crescent dance team James Dunn adult wonderland beast of the City Walter a Dukj ;