RARE MArch 1934 The Stage with Wallace Morgan Cover

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RARE March 1934 THE STAGE Magazine with color cover by Wallace Morgan. FEATURES on A Playgoer’s Discoveries on popular word-of-mouth- extended runs of “Come of Age” “Tobacco Road,” Lucile Watson prances through “No More Ladies” …very good fun indeed; “By Your
Leave” …Dorothy Gish a trifle listless…Ken McKenna gone a bit Hollywood; “No Questions Asked” so-so play with fine actors…Spring Byington, Ross Alexander; A. E. Matthews most underappreciated actor on American stage; “Peace on Earth” passionately sincere but callow propaganda; young Frank M. Thomas Jr. steals the show in “Wednesday’s Child,” Esther Dale most unctuous hired girl this season; John Eldridge quizzical smile; delightful looking Elizabeth Risdon; Nan Dunderland’s smile; lovely Gladys Cooper voice; no reason to cheer Frank Lawton; Ina Claire in “Biography,” Geo M. Cohan and Marjorie Marquis playing with inspired accuracy; J. C. Nugent good old-style acting; Sam Dodsworth Sees the World with 4 scenes featuring Fay Bainter, Nan Sunderland, Walt Huston; Lillian Gish Proves Herself in “The Joyous Season” with photo;
The Best in British Acting with photos of Gladys Cooper, Adrianne Allen, Raymond Massey; photos by Alfredo Valente; Richard of Bordeaux with 6 scenes starring Francis Lister, Margaret Vines Elizabeth Cerf, A. G. Andrews, Chas Bryant, Hugh Buckler, Alex Frank, Lionel Hogarth, Montague Love, Michael Pearneau, Henry Mollison, Dennis King, Charles Romano; The Monte Carlo Russe with 3 photos of Leonide Massine; Tamara Toumanova; David Lichine; Why the Theatre Persuades by Editor Frank Eaton; Making Up with 17 photos of Helen Hayes in make-up room;
John Mason Brown with photo; Simonsoniana on Lee Simonson; Sarah Bernhardt Lives in a Book;
FULL PAGE PHOTOS of Charles Halton and Walter Huston in “Dodsworth,”
PHOTOS of Judith Anderson in “Come of Age,” 2 of Lucile Watson in “No
More Ladies,” Violet Kemble Cooper in “Mackerel Skies,” Lloyd Nolan in
One Sunday Afternoon,” “Four Saints in Three Acts” with Edward Matthews; Frank M. Thomas, Jr. in “Wednesday’s Child,” Mickey Mouse and 3 Little Pigs in “As Thousands Cheer,” Spring Byington, Barbara Robbins in “No Questions Asked,” “By Your Leave” with Howard Lindsey, Dorothy Gish, Josephine Hull, Cynthia Rogers; “Yellow Jack” featuring John Miltern, Sam Levene, James Stewart, Myron McCormick, Elward Acuff, Katherine Wilson; FASHIONS photos of Ruth Weston, 2 of Nedda Harrigan, Dorothy Gish, Mildred Manning, Jane Wyatt, 2 of Dorothy Gish;
THE CURTAN IS UP Section on productions featuring “After Such Pleasures” by Dorothy Parker; Eugene O’Neil’s “Ah, Wilderness!”…roar with laughter…tenderest and wisest writing by O’Neil…and best Geo M. Cohan acting…”Big Heater Herbert” by Sophie Kerr and Anna Steese Richardson…J. C. Nugent transforms into roaringly funny harlequinade
…”By Your Leave” by Gladys Hurlbut and Emma Wells…capitally played by Elizabeth Love…Dorothy Gish and Ken MacKenna accomplish graceful things with frugal material; “Dodsworth” by Sid Howard…whole show well acted and exceedingly handsome…Marria Ouspenskaya unforgettable\
…Walter Huston completely candid…Fay Bainter expert but rather too vibrant; “Her Master’s Voice” by Clare Kummer…bubbling, middle-class comedy…crazy illogic of Kummer…Laura Hope Crews breathless, arch technique…talented Frances Fuller…Roland Young deft comedy; “Mary of Scotland” by Maxwell Anderson…fine play with simplicity and grandeur…
Phil Merivale thundering and plausible hero…Helen Menken etches a decorative, boldly stylized Elizabeth…majestic Robert Edmund Jones settings; “Men in White” by Sid Kingsley…merited popularity…J. Edward Bromberg superbly played; “No More Ladies” by A. E. Thomas…Lucile Watson brightest comedy spotlights; “No Questions Asked” by Anne Morrison Chapin…pretty funny…Spring Byington whisks the best capitally; Ross Alexander proves himself; “Peace on Earth” by Geo Skylar and Al Maltz…sharp whip on anti-war propaganda by Theatre Union; “Richard of Bordeaux” by Gordon Daviot…in London over a year…
vigorous, at time, beautiful…opportunity for Dennis King to show what he can do as tragic actor; “Sailor, Beware!” by Kenyon Nicholson and Chas Robinson…salty and bawdy; “She Loves me Not” by Howard Lindsay from Ed Hope novel…glorious society taken for a jolly ride with Burgess Meredith, Polly Walters; “The Green Bay Tree” by Mordaunt Shairp…
James Dale, O,. P. Heggie, Laurence Olivier and Leo Carroll created three-dimensional characters in superb production; “The Pursuit of Happiness” by Al Child and Isabelle Loudon…jolly corner in the realm of sophisticated…Tonio Selwart delightful..Peggy Conklin demure; “The Shining Hour” by Keith Winter…Gladys Cooper one of most admired English actresses is devilish shrewd…Ray Massey one of best anywhere; “The Wind and the Rain” by Dr. Merton Hodge…well-mannered little comedy…Frank Lawton and Rose Hobart agreeable pair of lovers; “Tobacco Road” by Jack Kirkland from Erskine Caldwell novel…fine acting, notably Henry Hull, Margaret Wycherly; “Wednesday’s Child” by Leopold Atlas…tenderness and compassion…Frank Thomas, Jr. plausible and haunting…”As Thousands Cheer” by Irving Berlin and Moss Hart…
witty, tuneful and lacking in reverence with Clifton Webb, Ethel
Waters, Marilyn Miller; “Murder at the Vanities” by Rufus King and Earl Carroll…New York and its guests from Montana like it; “Roberta” by Otto Harbach…comfortably funny…Tamara singing the best of Jerome Kern songs; “Ziegfeld Follies of 1934” presented by Billie Burke…as beautiful and funnier than past Follies; Fanny Brice shines…Willie Howard funnier than ever; “Monte Carlo Ballet Russe…Marius Petipa, Manuel De Falla, setting sand costumes by Picasso, Martinez Sierra;
WE SAW AND LIKED with scenes from each: …”Ah, Wilderness” with Nat Miller’s delicious speech; “As Thousands Cheer” 100% topical review…Clifton Webb and Marilyn Miller dance charmingly; “Her Master’s Voice” one of must amusing comedies; “Let ‘Em Eat Cake”…Mary Wintergreen model of good looks; “Mary of Scotland” fascinating and many-colored lives; “Men in White” crises, humors as never dramatized before; “Sailor, Beware!” lively show, capitally acted; “She Loves Me Not”…crazy and funny; “The Green Bay Tree”…exquisite in its way; “The Pursuit of Happiness”…Tonio Selwart displays a rare charm; “The School for Husbands”…fluent and delicate acting of Osgood Perkins; “Ziegfeld Follies of 1934” glorious and glorifying;
THEATRE ASIDES news items on Harpo Marx returns to USA from Soviet; John Wexley takes play writing seriously…”The Last Mile,” Arthur Hopkins most silent man on Broadway; Maude Adams on radio in retirement; but she is of the theatre; Mary Holsman anecdote on touring with “Mourning Becomes Electra,” Wm Gillette “Hamlet” anecdote; Dorothy Parker refusal to see own production of “After Such Pleasures,”
DINING Before the Play and Dancing After with photos of dancing girls of Casino de Paree; at the Basrclay with Louis Reed, Jr., Betzie Beaton, Tonio Selwart; Waldorf-Astoria with Ruth Weston, Jane Eichelberger, Alfred de Laigre, Jr.; at Madison Bar with Jill Esmond, Ilka Chase, Frank Lawton, Lawrence Olivier; and text on Jack King at Algonquin; Peppy D’Albrew at Chapeau Rouge; Eddie Duchin at Central Park Casino; Jack Denny at The Pierre; Guy Rennie at Waylin Bar;
FULL PAGE ADS for back cover color Marie Laurencin illustrater French Line; United States Lines; color Canadian Club; Mady Christians for Lux Toilet Soap; inside back cover ship illustrated color Italian Line;
ADS for Bonwit Teller; Jessie Franklin Turner; Elizabeth Arden; Interior Decoration; Pasadena Community Playhouse Association; ills. Pierce Arrow; Ey-Teb; illus. The Gotham; The Weylin Bar; illus. Café Madison;
Monte Carlo Ballet Russe; Chez robert; Ritz-Carlton;
Oberammergau Passion Play;
CONDITION: COMPLETE 48 pages filled with early stage, theatre, motion picture productions, actors, actresses, producers, authors, industry news. Was part of bound volume therefore bare spine. Cover edge chip where removed from bound volume, no back cover, restapled.