RARE The Stage January 1933 with cover of Beatrice Lillie by Martha Sawyers. FEATURES on A Playgoer’s After Thoughts on “Lucrece” produced by Katharine Cornell an intelligent and imaginative projection
…Miss Cornell never more winning…Blanche Yurka, Brfian Ahern, Rob Loraine, Joyce Carey excellent support; “Criminal At Large” an attractive bid; “Firebird huge success overseas…better Bernstein than Bernstein; Henry Stephenson unexceptional…Montagu love suave, Elizabeth Young surprise of the evening; “The Great Magoo” shocks and gasps not enough to make a successful play; “The Mad Hopes” one week run silly little flop with violet Kemble cooper as no-brained lead; “Autumn Crocus” nothing but an episode for a plot…Patricia Collinge a pretty and eager lady; Francis Lederer completely knows his par…Minna Phillips does conventional tipsy old maid to our most exacting taste; Margaret Arrow does flawless bit; Patricia Calvert has a long and colorful road ahead of her;  40 lines on Vittorio Podrecca Puppets (800, 4 ½ ‘ tall) from Rome; 50+ lines on Uday Shan-kar’s Hundu Dancers; 5o+ lines on “Dear Jane” produced by Eva Le Gallienne…some of the excess sugar the fault of Josephine Hutchinson and Miss Gallienne; column and ½ on Eva Le Gallienne triumphed putting on “Alice in Wonderland” …Bufano carried out his assignment with an accuracy derived from long experience; Musical Romance of Another Age “The DuBarry,” with 7 photos , one with Grace Moore; The Illusion of Scenery with set designs sketches by Boris Aronson, Aubrey Hammond; The Firebird Fires of an Actor with 2 “Firebird” scenes with Ian Keith, Judith Anderson, Henry Stephenson, John Daly Murphy; Court Jesters of Manhattan with photos of Al Shean; Bert Lahr; Lyda Roberti and Jack Pearl; Lyuella Gear; Chas Butterworth; Beatrice Lillie; Bobby Clark; Vic Moore; Jack Haley and Sid Silvers; New York’s Guest Star: Francis Lederer with photo of Lederer; Your Money’s Worth in the Theatre by Editor Hiram Motherwell; Theatre Asides 5 paragraph on Vicente Minnelli and “The DuBarry,” 3 paragraphs on Jo Mielziner and “The Emperor Jones,” 7 paragraphs on Rowland Stebbins; 6 paragraphs on Vic Wittgenstein, 6 paragraphs on Wm Hildebrand’s collection of theatrical data on sale for $100,000; “Revue” and “Variety” bring Holiday Madness with photos of Lili Damita in “Music Hall Varieties,” Joseph Donatello acrobatic dance; Fred Astaire and Claire Luce dancing in “Gay Divorce,” Bee Lillie in “Walk A Little Faster” Sunny O’Day in “Walk A Little Faster”, Ethel Merman in “Take a Chance,” Ethel Merman and chorus in “Take A Chance,” June Knight and Jack Whiting in “Take a Chance,” Ona Munson and Jack Buchanan in “Pardon My English,” lovely Mitzi Mayfair in “Take A Chance,” Too True to Be good by Lawrence Langner; the Critics of Showville by Louis Azrael with scene of Broadway at Night with Lowe’s State marquee lit up; At Bergman’s Studio Where Dreams Come True with sketch; The Garbo Clip versus Sausage Curls with photo of Judith Anderson’s new hair-do; Claire Luce in crepe dress; Lili Damita with Russian Wolfhound; Margaret Sullavan in jacket and pants; By Starlight on glory of being Katharine Hepburn’s Understudy; December Films on “A Farewell to Arms” suffers from condensation with Helen Hayes alive and real, with scene from retreat from Caroretto; “The Sign of the Corss” by Cecil b. DeMille, the severe moralist…with whimsical Chas Laughton as Nero and beautiful Claudia Colbert; “Match King” based on Ivan Kreuger career…Warren William does admirably…, also with Lili Damita; Please Don’t Shoot by John Ogden Whedon;  Strange London interludes by Juanita Tanner with photo of George Bernard Shaw making himself up in guise; Toscanini and Lesser Matters by Marcia Davenport on  Tibbett’s “Boccanegra in class of best…Rosa Ponselle singing true to best standards of Italian diva; Elisbeth Rethberg voice lovely as any; Toscanini Philharmonic great music on the radio;
THE CURTAIN IS UP brief descriptions and some cast for “Absent Father” by Francis De Witt; “Another Language” by Rose Franken, With Margaret Wycherly, John Beal; “Autumn Crocus” by C. L. Anthony, presented by Lee Shubert, starring Francis Lederer, Dorothy Gish; “Civic Repertory under direction of Eva Le Gallienne; “Dangerous Corner” by J. B. Priestley; “Dinner at Eight” by George Kaufman and Edna Ferber presented by Sam Harris; “Firebird” by Lajos Zilahy with Henry Stephenson, Ian Keith, Montagu Love; “Jamboree” by Bessie Beaty and Jack Black; Shakespeare Repertory presented by Percival Vivian and Julius Hopp; “Mademoiselle” by Jacques Deval, adapted by Grace George with Grace George, Alice Brady, A. E. Matthews; “Success Story” by John Howard Lawson by Group Theatre; “The Good Fairy” by Fernec Molnar, English by Jane Hinton. Joseph Urban sets; “The Late Christopher Bean” by Sidney Howard starring Pauline Lord; “When Ladies Meet” by Rachel Crothers with Frieda Inescort; “Whistling in the Dark” by Laurence Gross and Ed Childs; “The Du Barry” with Grace Moore; and more musicals;
FULL PAGE PHOTO of Katharine Cornell photo by Vandamm;
PHOTOS of Florence Williams; Ross Alexander and Katherine Alexander in “Honeymoon,” Podrecca puppet in Donizettis’ “l’Elisir d’amore,” 2 of Uday Shankar Hindu dance troupe; Podrecca puppet in Rossini’s “The Lying Magpie,” Ina Claire in Biography,” Alfred Lunt with Lynn Fontanne, Noel Coward; Gertrude Kappel as Electra;
NEWS ITEMS ON Nancy Hamilton full page “Parade!” prose with sketch; BOOKS: “Bernard Shaw, Playboy and Prophet” by Archibald Henderson; “Theatre and Friendship: Letters from Henry James to Elizabeth Robbins:
DINING Before the Play and Dancing After  Section with mentions of ;
SKETCHES/CARTOONS by Shellhase; Delessio; Fred A. Mayer;
FULL PAGE ADS illus. The New Yorker; Richard Hudnut;
ADS for Claire Luce for Jay-Thorpe; Hotel Pierre with exterior photo;
CONDITION: COMPLETE 50 pages filled with early stage, theatre production, industry history, actors, actresses, playwrights, etc. . From bound volume therefore no back cover, bare spine, book store stamp, possibly restapled. Nice condition inside.