Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-01-05 | Page 15 | New Dramas Imported

NEW DRAMAS IMPORTED h Europe Supplies American Stage With Plays I p i. i y M tT S. S 7 iN 4 I- I i S N 4 I. I i Li 1 F L V J JL k i t. t M V w i 4 3 F r S i t 1 rs it r J n frI 4 44 l f 1 1 4 New v Movie Cathedral Opens in ill Gotham With Vilh Lupe Velez By GILBERT SWAN NEW NEV IW YORK Jan I 1 NEA EA- EA There have o b en but two or 01 three e occasions thus far this season for discussing drama that any l particularly serious note nole or offer o opportunity for fOl thoughtful common common- 1 tal tary In lii fact sleuthing about for something that th looks hooks like lIko Pulitzer prize material immaterial It seems to me at atthe atthe atthe the moment that The Time Criminal Code Codo is tIme the outstanding bet of or the time moment There are reports of ot an nn opus titled tilled Tho Infinite Shoeblack Shoeblack Shoe Shoe- black bL or like that t which have havo been drifting in from Chicago Berkeley Square Squiar was an nn Importation tation ll from London and ne Red Beth Rust t came me o er from froni Russia Death Takes a n. Holiday Is In tho list Which brings us WI down on to the thc most recent of or tho the Theatre productions and the tIme third on the list blat It It I Is Meteor a a. play PinT which is Ig really a character study Novels 0 particularly those of or recent recant years ars have been lan largely pI ab absorbed orbed with Lii studies of oC character but the time has seen few ew of ol them In fact there have b been en arguments antI and and there are arc many at this moment concern moment concernIng concern concern- In iii Ing whether dramatic fulfillment can cau be bo achieved through h a a. micro micro- copic 5 view Ie of oC one personality Perhaps it was tho acting of Alfred Al Alfred Al- Al fred Creel Lunt one of oC the lie best stu studies les this v very r ry superior guild fa favorite has given I en maybe It was th the tho very smooth dialog Halo of Ol the author S. S N who wrote arote that gay lit litlie littIe little lit lit- tIe lie adaptation Serena Blandish or it ma flirt may have been the type of ol character selected But I 1 for one found it n vastly II interesting It concerns an extraordinary case e ot or egomania ru a man who would have havo ha be been n d. laboratory case cao for a psychiatrist p From Flom his very erY college days he lie sees himself himsel allied 0 1 t i 4 f LUPE VELEZ who keeps a bad badI story alive in new and ALFRED ALFRED ALFRED AL AL- I FRED LUNT the Gu Guilds Guild's ld's favorite with Napoleon and even en God In his egoism he sees ce himself even e gifted with wills second sight Nothing can caum stop him bins and and nothing does docs lIe Ho becomes a a. m mad niad world within himself a world in irs which er c everything everything every every- thing mu t bo be subordinated to his hits will Such is hi his state lale however er that he doesn't look hook upon It as sub sub- uh- uh ordination He lie sees all achievement and all incidents merely ns os time the re reflection reflection re- re of ot a natural consequence He Just cant can't be wron wrong He lie gets power and fortunes an and oil fields in a sort of or Haiti ho Imo has hal marines fighting for or him hUn and little republics lies rocking with his polities He lie dreams of or empire and amid a self made Utopia To him this Is all highly impersonal imper Imper- onal it is tIme the inevitable Ino result o of his destiny JA c companionships mankind everything is III viewed with the lie coolest Impe impersonality while ho ha hews on to his own destruction Madness s Is Js always ah around the tho corIer corner cor cor- ner I and 1111 a a. latter slav runs through the tIme lines in tho thio en end ho Is 11 alone alone alone-a. a megalomaniac but convinced con more than Ihan ever evor of his titanic ti titanic ti- ti ante stature Lynn Fontanne of ofA A I course course- is cast cat with Lunt but bUl ha to do A AAs As 11 3 Is 1 customary In holiday IC sea season ca cason son Broadway Ls Li lined with nun man delightful light entertainments aucI uc as marionette and ansi appearance of or fine tine performer Id 1 ert Carroll the best cst mimic li ii America has imas teamed up with Fret r rt Keating l the tIme magician l for a a. couple of or weeks cels of or diversion l Huth StDenis at St t Denis and Ted red Shawn have ha com eOln dancing into inlo town lown Huth Draper now nosy an International arU artist t Ls Lu hen again with her inimitable characterizations Meanwhile too ono one ot of th f snappier girl gid shows moves mO in p 11 1 is titled tithed Top fop Speed Spee and will wilt such a 3 namo name tho chorus must lIve 11 up UI to th tho connotation Anti And does dot What interests me ins most about abou this show ho Is la the tha bl big streets street's late find Her namo nano Is la Mis Gln Ginger r Rogers and sho ho is another young Ou lady to bo be picked out of ot those thoo prolog prolog pro pro- 10 log entertainments staged in th thi film hum theatres tres Yom From this School camo canio Zelma ONeal with her varsity var vir Hit sity drag almS and Helen lichen Kane Janc with her hier lisping lisping- bab baby talk son songs t Which reminds m rue that th-it tin hr Warner Varner Brothers picked the holl days dur for the opening of or their quite splendiferous ne non new talking picture playhouse house the Beacon Here one om learns will wilt bo a a. 11 rival nl for the Rosy HaIr limo tho Paramount and those thoe other palaces o of or time the shouting celluloid I Ihas It has hIlS all nil tho tinseled cv et rooted of or tho the movie cathedrals with considerably letter better taste than thai most and such added 1 as a a. balcony upon which women ome I ma may ma- smoke while they stroll I The Tho opening attraction was Tiger Ti Ii ger no Rose e hardly a fitting film fur foi furso j so o gala an occasion Lure Vetois Veto is the tho featured 1 player lael and such uch vivacity 1 that a a. bad story tOL I- I is 11 kept fairly alive c Tho The compositions composition and scenery are arc something else else else- both being quite Quito superior Marilyn Millers Miller's first talkie Sal Sally ly b. seemed to 10 mo pie quite as I pointing Miss Misa Miller a a. fa favorite oi ortho or of tho brigade 1 I exceeding well wen and tho tIme shows her to advantage The Time gm gen eral ensemble is IR lavish aIsh a Ish both bolh I In numbers and costume Still It lats too loo Jon long and grows growa TOWS dreary 5 I The Time best talkie entertainment ot ol tho week weck so far as I urn um concerned I Is Seven St Keys to Baldpate with Richard DIx This Thill has a storY tor which would be he hard to 10 fumble umble And DIx Db in his first film film under th this the O R banner looks like a v very er ry rood good bet again 1