Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schoolhouse on the Lot (by Joseph A. Fields & Jerome Chodorov; produced by Philip Dunning). Last week Hollywood landed on Broadway again. The new wrinkle this time was the kids in pictures who, when they are not acting, go to school on the lot. Headliner among them is an itsy-bitchy angel face (Betty Philson) who starts the ball rolling by having her teacher fired. Thereafter, the dear old Goldwyn-rule days give way to the usual mad, noisy, illiterate, shyster antics of the movie industry. Maddest, noisiest, worst illiterate, biggest shyster is a movie magnate (Robert H. Harris) who looks...
...year after she was graduated from Gushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass., Bette, then 19, went to Manhattan, had her discomfiting brush with Le Gallienne, later enrolled in John Murray Anderson's dramatic school. When a chance came to play in George Cukor's stock production of Broadway in Rochester, Ruthie sent her off with a blessing and the admonition to learn both her own part and that of the leading lady, because "the lead is going to break...
When on the opening night the lead, Rose Lerner, tumbled down the spiral staircase backstage and sprained an ankle, Bette was less surprised at the accident than horrified at her mother's long-range powers. Later she joined the Provincetown Players, hit Broadway's fringe in The Earth Between, had an engagement (complicated by belated measles) with Blanche Yurka's troupe in The Wild Duck, a summer at the Cape Playhouse, and Broadway successes in Broken Dishes with Donald Meek, The Solid South with Richard Bennett. Two screen tests resulted, and in December 1930, Bette, Ruthie...
Last week Broadway producers got their worst smack in the face in years. Five major playwrights-Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood, S. N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice-curtly announced that they were going into business for themselves, as a group...
...Hill Between (by Lula Vollmer; produced by Robert Butterfield). In 1923 Lula Vollmer achieved a Broadway hit with her play about mountain folk, Sun-Up. Like Mahomet, Playwright Vollmer has been going to the mountain ever since. But in the past 15 years hillbillies have lost much of their freshness on the stage...