Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-02-16 | Page 14 | '9:15 Revue' Acclaimed

9 91 1 5 REVUE ACCLAIMED 4 Broadways Broadway's 5 Sole Woman Producer a Success I l i d 2 g r l t 1 r IF- IF ri I S f I I. I I J. J V L i S. S i S S S 1 h. h V f s K I t. t Z t I U qt q 1 l r t. t v j t Wt I il r b y n IY iJ i d' d F t 1 44 Ii i. i l S 5 I z i N M S. S RUTH SELWYN Broadways Broadway's sole woman producer producer pro pro- I duc ducer r and Hope Williams who came to ilic lie he stage via pro pro-I the Junior league and ad is starred in Rebound I n. n S Celebrities Combine Talents in Unique l Revue Re Re- evue e- e vue vuc Laugh Clown Clo Laugh Drama Appears By GILBERT SWAN NEW NESS C YOnI NEA iEA Broadway EA-Broadway Broadway is 3 now no witnessing a demonstration of or th the amusing in- in results which ma may grow tow from flom womans woman's invasion In of oC the business world At the moment a a. husband and wife have o bec become me mc competitors a as theatrical producers producer r Each ch has a t tI I musical show within a a. stones stone's toss of ot the this other When Ruth Selwyn th the main stems stem's only woman woman producer produce brought to town the tine smartest and little revue uc of or the time season she BInA automatically became a friendly rival 1 for box office approval al of oC her eminent spouse Edgar Selwyn S Selwyn Sel- Sel I- I wyn had already established a a. rather rath rath- er cr spectacular hit hit Strike Up the thc Band Th The while Mrs hs Selwyn was piecing to together her own ideas ot 01 what a show should hould be Tine The The 1 13 ue ne a. a Not that sine she altogether disagrees with the l Ideas of oC her Iner more experienced husband she husband she just has a a. few of oC her own Some years ago no S. MJ-S. ls n left the tine theatre She had bc been cn Ruth nuth Wilcox a t. t musical comedy com corn edy actress STAGE ROMANCE I In fact her hel name appeared upon the pro program of oC Strike Up tho tIne Band when six years ago Selwyn found It on one of or his most expensive o flops He lie dropped dropped- a a. neat on It at tine the time though his re revival rc- rc vival ivaL made matiE that back baek with H Interest At any W rate there was sas a romance and she eventually e married 1 the tine man who had harl produced the tine show how In which she had lint pl played a most minor part About a S Syer years year n ago o Ruth Buth Selwyn got ot a a. bright idea She had noticed as is who hasn't on that smart audiences had Iid a habit of oC drifting Into their theatre theah well after arLer tho the curtain had risen She he kept a aSlop astop astop stop Slop watch on these late diners and anti i found the time when scats seats were I most generally filled to be 15 So she conceived the Nine Ine t ten teen n Revue ue Tho The curtain rises well after all nil other good little curt curtains ns are arc lowering upon th tins thA first act in If Having no pIa Play no book honk no lyrics no music sino music sho ha mad had another bright little hunch Why not get et your frien friends s to write your YOU show The They were vera smart people who said and wrote smart things man many of oC them had alread already written for the thc theatre So the tine Nine Fifteen Revue ue became be be- came caine something of an anthology o ol of certain well known Anita Loos Ring fling Roger Hoger Wolfe I Kahn m Ira and Geor George Georgo o Gershwin Gersh Gersin- win Irving Caesar and Rudolph I John Johnson on and Bill Dill Han- Han Eddie Cantor and Vincent Youmans Ruth Huth and Leslie Howard I Just Junt about the most star all combination rom corn to Lo 4 bo Ix rounded d up UI under one roof HEARTACHES HIDDEN It would be I slightly unfair lr to Rebound in the line classification of or tho the laugh clown laugh lauh dramas To Io be he sure annie this pin pill play b by Ogden 1 Stewart who vIno ha hasn't nt made up his mind whether he's hes a 3 better humorist t than au an actor suggests that sentimental theme toward the tho final curtain flint But its it's much too sophisticated and smart for lor that In Ina Ina a a. sen sense e. e True its it's about those thoroughly civilized d folk who wino make It ii a habit to their theIL emotions behind hind a a. cracking wise exterior But nut theres there's man many a a. heartache hidden behind a 1 wisecrack as you'll Otil find rind i if you'll stud study this dr drama There nio moments mere here so o hi hidden hid hid- den Ion in glittering dialog that seem superficially fragile Ile but ut if iC you dropped them thorn they would be as brittle brit brit- brittle tle tic glass filled with dynamite SOCIAL REGISTER LADY Rebound was wa r to all intends and purposes a studiously ly written opus opu growing out of oC Miss Hope Williams earlier successes ses Paris Parl Houn Bound and Holiday in the I latter name named I Mr Me Stewart who wino up to that time had been content to write comic bits and amid books appeared In A sort of oC monolo which grew gres' rew Into future talkie dialog As s someone already wrote ho lie probably Jotted down notes on oil tho the back of oC the time scenery and wrote a t piece for Miss Williams 1 an Social ex-Social Register la lady y who wIno came caine to Broadway out of oC the time Junior league productions and thus was Il out of or tho tine l Blue tue Book Dool Miss Williams mo I Is an actress who Wino employs the tine monotone to its best advantage ant Sho can bowl a n. wisecrack down an any aisle for a ten strike Hers is 15 the cult of oC the casual but this tinis extremely extreme I ly Iy sophisticated attitude i is tho the very err genesis of ot tr tragedy Cd when it appears In lii a situation caking o 5