February 1930 Theatre Magazine

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Theatre magazine
February 1930
Theatre Magazine was a marvelous publication. This February 1930 issue is no exception. I must note that this issue was once part of a bound collection. Be sure to see a complete condition description near the end of this writing.
The photographs are outstanding. Most are large. In this issue you will see:
Viva Berkett, Rose Hobart and Philip Merivale in "Death Takes a Holiday" (Alberto Casella)
Mary Ellis and Basil Sydney in "Meet the Prince"
A stunning photo of Mlle. Lily Damita in "Sons o’ Guns"
John Barrymore
A scene from Corinne Griffith film, "The Lilies of the Field"
Glenn Hunter in "Waterloo Bridge"
Jacob Ben-Ami as Fedya in "The Living Corpse"
Billie Burke and her daughter Patricia – This picture is with an article titled, "Your Daughter on the Stage – Why Not?"
Pianist Jose Iturbi
Pianist Vladimir Horowitz
Pianist Josef Hofmann
Pianist Alfred Cortot
Three photos of actors in "June Moon" – shown are Norman Foster, Linda Watkins, Frank Otto, Jean Dixon and Harry Rosenthal. Accompanying the photos is a feature, much of it includes play dialogue.
Five photos of Chicago’s new civic opera house (With these pictures is an Oliver M. Sayler article: "Shakespeare’s New Southampton"
Evelyn Hoey in "Fifty Million Frenchmen"
A group Albertina Rasch dancers in "Sons o’Guns"
Ed Wynn
A victory ball scene from "Sons o’ Guns"
Edith Barrett, Henry Hull and Harry Beresford in "Michael and Mary"
Walter Hampden in "Richelieu"
Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt and Edward Emery in "Meteor"
Two tributary theater scenes from the Dallas Little Theatre production of "The Adding Machine"
In the fashion section by Maybelle Manning you will see Alice Brady modeling a couple of outfits under the title "The Truth about Long Skirts."
Also, there is a beautiful, near full page drawing of Alice Brady by Mary MacKinnon along with a smaller, very nice drawing of her.
There is a group of Max Pollak etchings under the title "La Danse Internationale. Dancers represented: Harald Kreutzberg, Tamara Karsavina, Lilie Smith (A Hoffmann Girl), Anna Duncan, Elsa Kruger, Albertina Rasch, Ronny Johansson and Tatjana Barbakoff.
Aline Fruhauf caricature is of Leslie Howard and Margalo Gillmore in "Berkeley Square."
Other artists with drawings in this issue are Paul Love, Markow, Trent, and Bruce Bairnsfather. Mr. Bairnsfather also wrote a feature about the difficulties of finding a producer.
Photographers contributing to this issue: Vandamm, White, Anton Bruehl, Roberts, Maurice Goldberg, Harold Stein, Irving Chidnoff, and Hal Phyfe.
Howard Barnes addressed the business side of theater in his article, "Perhaps You’d Like to Subscribe."
Sidney Skolsky looks behind the scenes. Much of the article is about superstitions of stars.
Joseph Kaye’s feature is about burlesque – "Its naughtiness grown respectable, its comics gone, burlesque is fading outÉ
Plays reviewed include "Red Rust" (V. Kirchon and A. Ouspensky), "Michael and Mary" (A.A. Milne), "The Living Corpse" (L.N. Tolstoy), "The Novice and the Duke" (Shakespeare), "The First Mrs. Fraser" (St. John Ervine), "Death Takes A Holiday" ( Alberto Casella), "Wake Up and Dream" (book by John Hastings), "Top Speed" (Guy Bolton, Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby), "City Haul" (Elizabeth Miele), "Damn Your Honor" (Bayard Veiller and Becky Gardiner), "Half Gods" (Sidney Howard), "Sherlock Holmes" (William Gillette and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) and "Inspector Kennedy" (Milton Herbert Gropper and Edna Sherry)
There is a list of plays "actually produced in high schools." Yankton College Players are represented in a few pictures.
Some of the books reviewed by Ralph Sargent Bailey: "Footlights Across America" by Kenneth Macgowan; "The Theatre Guild: The First Ten Years" by Walter Pritchard Eaton and "British Plays from the Restoration to 1820" edited by Montrose J. Moses.
There are many artistic and interesting advertisements. On the inside front cover Lucky Strike (in full color) pitches cigarettes to women. The other full-page color ad is for Packard automobiles.
Companies represented in full page black and white ads are Saks-Fifth Avenue, Marshall Field and Company, the House of Mauboussin, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Lux Toilet Soap (with nice photo of Muriel Kirkland), Kotex, Theatre Magazine and Vitaphone. (The Vitaphone ad features the Warner Brother movie "The Show of Shows.")
Numerous travel related ads are in this issue. And, the travel column this month was devoted to winter sport in Banff.
As mentioned above, this magazine was once part of a bound collection. It had been carefully removed. It looks to be in quite good condition excepting a missing back cover and a weak spine. As part of the binding process there were five small hole punches through the magazine. Three of the holes have thread tied through them. Also, there is a piece of tape about an inch long between the "e" and "a" in "Theatre.
There are 74 pages. They have crisp edges and are clean. Pages measure about 9 ¼ by 12 ½ inches.
The Andre Durenceau cover (a rendering of "Bitter Sweet") is in very good condition.