RARE The Stage April 1933 with cover of Eva Le Gallienne by Fred Wallace. FEATURES on A Playgoer’s After Thoughts on charming theatrical temperament changing and FDR; “Both Your Houses” by Maxwell Anderson who gives a wide range of characters; soothing swing of Jerome Kern’s tunes in “Music in the Air,” simple humors of “A Sunday Afternoon,” rousing rowdyness of Jimmy Durante in “Strike Me Pink,” “Run, Little Chillun!” clumsy drama does not bother if the music is splendid; see Ina Claire twist “Biography” around; “Our Wife” as mediocre plays go it was not the worst; with Bogart well conceived and neaty portrayed, June Walker who never crawled inside her role, Rose Hobart quite a dream for any young man; “Lone Valley” pity that so much honest craftsmanship went into its writing and production…by Sophie Treadwell…resourceful acting by little known mimes, particularly
Marguerite Borough… who has charm and skill; “American Dream” …its good qualities equaled by its bad ones…George O’Neil’s ability to be powerful…incomplete, fumbling poetic effort; theatre Guild deserves praise; “Forsaking All Others” built on a feckless plot…Tallulah Bankhead acts as though she means everything she does; Fred Keating plays trick with his hollow role; “Run, Little Chillun!” spine went quivering to glory with chorales and spirituals some fine moments in the play…extraordinary acting…Edna Thomas delivered with a variety of tone and pace; “One Wife or Another” a silly little something; “The Sophistocrats” …Ken Brittling sneered quite remarkable lines; “Four O’Clock” its melodrama could not hold together its scattered good lines;  “Louisiana” another spiritual type; “Conquest” cast did not help Arthur Hopkins’ rotund sentences; worst of all “The Lady Refuses” with Lou Tellegen one of three suitors of a woman who coos; Life Is Dramatic Only in Perspective by Editor Hiram Motherwell with photos of Frank McGlynn as Abraham Lincoln; Coquelin as Napoleon; “Journey’s End” scene; Congress in Burlesque Season on Maxwell Anderson’s “Both Your Houses” with 2 pages and 5 sketches; Altar Trouble on “Forsaking All Others” with 2 pages and scenes with Ilka Chase, Tallulah Bankhead, Harlan Briggs; photo of Tallulah Bankhead; Hollywood, Park Avenue & Broadway in “Strike Me Pink” starring Durante, Hope Williams, Lupe Velez with 2 pages 5 photos of Ruth Harrison, Alex Fisher; Durante, chorus, Lupe Velez and Durante scene, Durante with Eddie Garr, Hope Williams; The Complete Actor by Editor Hiram Motherwell with Richard Boleslavsky; Theatre Asides on 4 paragraphs on Manteo Marionettes; 5 paragraphs on George O’Neil; Strolling Through Shady Lanes on “One Sunday Afternoon with 2 pages with 4 scenes featuring Lloyd Nolan, Mary Holsman, Francesca Bruning, Percy Helton; De Devil’s Done Loose in de Lan’ on “Run, Little Chillun!” with 2 pages, 2 scenes; Miss Le Gallienne Fights It Through by Lawrence Langner; Why Movies Stars by Richard Watts, Jr. with photo of Betty Furness; What the Well-Dressed Play is Wearing International Review with fashion photos of Peggy Wood, Tallulah Bankhead, Nancy Ryan, Elizabeth Young, Ilka Chase; John of the Empire 40 years service as Superintendent; John Gielgud’s Rising Star with “Richard of Bordeaux” scene with Gielgud, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies; Goose-flesh Movies by Creighton Peet with Loren Stout sketch of Mae West…”King Kong” certainly something to knock your eye out; “The Lost World” pretty amusing; Fritz Lang’s “M” mature and exhaustive psychological account; “Clear All Wires” expert and vastly amusing with Lee Tracy; Some Musicians and a visionary merger with mentions of Gregot Piatigorsky, Nathan Milstein, Vladimir Horowitz;
THE CURTAIN IS UP brief descriptions and some cast for “A Saturday Night” by Owen Davis, starring Peggy Wood; “Alice in wonderland” adapted by Eva Le Gallienne starring Josephine Hutchinson, Joseph Schildkraut; “Alien Corn” by Sid Howard, presented by Katharine Cornell, also with Lily Cahill; “Design for Living” by Noel coward, with Lunt and Fontanne; “Forsaking All Others” starring Tallulah Bankhead; “One Sunday Afternoon” by James Hagan; “The Cherry Orchard” by Anton Chekov, directed by Eva Le Gallienne; “Twentieth Century” with Moffatt Johnston, Eugenie Leontovich; plus others and musicals;
FULL PAGE PHOTOS of Walter C. Kelly Dramatic Debut in “Both Your Houses,” Jimmie Durante photo by Alfredo Valente; full page Garret Price sketch;
PHOTOS of Nazimova; Ruth Gordon in “The Three-Cornered Moon,” Selysia and Sepha Treble in “Mother of Pearl,” Helen Westley a sharply etched character in “American Dream,” Dorothy Hall in “Champagne Supper; Marguerite Churchill in Dinner At Eight,” Both Your Houses” scene; Dorothy and Dave Fitzgibbons in “Walk A Liettle Faster,” Claire Luce with 2 dogs; Elmer Rice; Owen Davis; R. C. Sherriff, Maxwell Anderson; “Dinner at Eight” in London with Carol Goodner; “The Green Bay Tree” with London cast of Catherine Lacey, Herb Lomas, Frank Josper, Hugh Williams;
SKETCHES/CARTOONS by 6 Wally; Dalessia; 3 by Garrett Price;
FULL PAGE ADS back cover color fashionable exiting church illus Cadillac; inside front cover color six-cylinder Oldsmobile; stunning Claire Luce for Lux Toilet Soap; Sallberg illus Dinner at Eight aboard the Ile de France for French Line; inside back cover illus. Chevrolet Cabriolet;
ADS for illus. the New Yorker; Jay-Thorpe The Plaza with photo; Bernard Weatherill Tailors; German Tourist; Moscow theater Festival;
CONDITION: COMPLETE 50 pages filled with early stage, theatre production, industry history, actors, actresses, playwrights, etc. . From bound volume therefore bare spine, possibly restapled, COVER SCRUFF. Nice condition inside.