RARE October 1933 The Satge with Wallace Morgan cover

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RARE The Stage September 1933 with Oscar Howard playhouse doings cover. FEATURES on The Curtain is Up brief description and cast of  “Dangerous Corner” “One Sunday Afternoon” “Tommy” “Gilbert and Sullivan Operettas” “Music in the Air” “Chicago Opera Company” “Party;”
A Summer Playgoer’s Discoveries on theatre revolution…Washington Square Players became the Theatre Guild; Provinceton Theatre became Eugene O’Neill…Lighton Rollins moved Surry Players fro to Bar Harbor;
Robert Edmund Jones’s revived “The Merry Widow” Ventral City CO success with Natalie Hall, Gladys Swarthout, Rich Bonelli; hand for director efforts of Robert Ross, Walt Hartwig, Eduardo Cianelli, Henry Potter; and actors Jane Seymour, Ray Sumpter, Gladys Hurlbut, Richard Whorf, Dorothy Cheston-Bennett style and distinction; and others; Leonba Hogarth opened season of Hackensack Summer Theatre and carried production single-handed; Peggy Wood brought back her exquisitely wrought Candida with intimate charm; acting discovery of Bretaigne Windust with polish and charm; Tonio Selwart another excellent actor in first American role, “The Pursuit of Happiness,” Love at Twenty: and at Forty with 4 Ben Dale sketches, “I was Waiting for You,” A Whimsical Wizard of Finance, Arnold Bennett’s “Mr. Prohack,” suave comedy makes everybody happy; with 4 scenes with Carol Stone, J. W. Austin, Dorothy Cheston-Bennett, Marjorie Wood, James Grainger; The Old Road by George Ade recalls romantics days gone forever; plus photos of Raton NM Coliseum; Denman Thompson in “The Old Homestead,” Joseph Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle; James O’Neill Count of Monte Cristo; Chauncey Olcott matinee idol; Colonel Mylberry Sellers; Nat Goodwin in “Oliver Twist,” Richard Mansfield in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” “The College Widow” with Fred Truesdell, Dorothy Tennant; group of Lew Fields, Ada Lewis, Helena Collier Garrick, Fay Templeton, Wm Collier, Lillian Russell, Joe Weber, John T. Kelly; “the College widow” scene; “The County Chairman,” “The Fair Co-ed” with Elsie Janis; Murder Mystery in Evening Dress in “Tempest Calm” at Litchfield Summer Theatre with scene featuring Barbara Bulgakova, France Bendsten, Jalna Young, Romaine Callender, Evelyn Beresford, Ed Butler, Boyne Barrodyne; Summer Stock Discovered Them Kong Before Broadway with photos of Jane Wyatt, Richard Whorf, Barbara Robbins, Francesca Bruning, Peggy Conklin, Claire Trevor, Katherine Hepburn, Sally Bates;
Discovered This Msuuer Dmitri Ostroc, director with photo of Ostrov; The Public Be Damned! By Editor Hiram Motherwell; Theatre Asides on Chicago Opera Company at Hippodrome run by Cecil Maberry and W. A. Carroll; executive director Alfredo Salmaggi; “The Bohemian Girl” brought back by Mitch Alborn; Lawrence Langner produced 2 of own plays at Westport Country Playhouse; Krimsky and Cochran finishing up first movie, “The Emperor Jones,” Our Promising Producwers with Shellhase sketches of Art Beckhard, Crosby Gaige, Sam Harris, Lee Shubert, Wm Brady; The New Theatre code and the Audience; The Curse of Old Demon Rum “Ten Nights in A Barroom” with 13 scenes; By the Way on Summer Broadway with photos of West Falmouth players of Cynthia Rogers, Leona Hogarth, Helen Wynn, Rob Ross, Bretaigne Windust, Muyron McCormick; Ogunquit ME company of Daisy Atherton, Hugh Miller, Leslie Dennsion, Flo Williams, Cecile Wulff, Lygia Bernard, Carl Benton Reid, Anne Seymour and director Walt Hartwig; Wharf Theatre Provinceton actors with Edouard Cianelli directing, Eleanor Phelps, Richard Whorf, Lillian Gahagan, Viola Roche; “I Have Seen Myself Before” by Brookfield Theatre; Suffern Summer Theatre; Provincetown Wharf theatre; Hal Skelley with Lynn Overman, Robert Powel; “The Devil’s Disciple” by Stockbridge MA with Geo. Coulouris, Rose Hobart; An Operatic Prodigy on Alfredo Salmaggi; “This Is America!” by Gilbert Seldes news reel compilation; “Desire Under the Elsm” with Lionel Barrymore; “The Stranger’s Return” directed by King Vidor; What the Summer Theatres Promise Listings; Summer Theatre’s Granddaddy on Elitch Gardens Denver and actors such as Jane Kenmark, Raffaelo Cavallo, Margaret Dibdin, Jessie Bartlett Davis, Maude Fealy in Shakespeare, Aubrey Boucicault, Theodore Roberts, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Sarah Bernhardt, May Buckley, Holbrook Blinn;
FULL PAGE PHOTIOS of Dorothy Cheston-Bennett photo by Paul Hansen;
PHOTOS of Ona Munson; Richard Whorf in “The Painted Butterfly,” Leonas Hogarth; Ruth St. Denis dancing;
DINING Before the Play and Dancing After at Ben Riley’s Arrowhead Inn, Bossert Marine Roof with Freddy Martin; Central Park Casino‘ St. Regis Roof with Meyer Davis; Starlight Roof Waldorf Astoria with Xavier Cugat; Riviera not expensive considering its lavishness;
CARTOON by Y.Q.;
FULL PAGE ADS: inside front cover color illus. Arts and Decoration; Helen Morgan for Lux Toilet Soap;
ADS for illus. The New Yorker; Jay-Thorpe; Waldorf-Astoria with 2 photos; illus. Elisabeth Arden; golfer illus. White Sulpher Springs; Leland Powers School of the Theatre; Margey Wilson finishing School at Home with photo of Wilson;
CONDITION: COMPLETE 59 pages filled with early stage, theatre production, industry history, actors, actresses, playwrights, etc. . From bound volume therefore no back cover, bare spine, restapled. Nice condition inside.