Word: broadwayize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West of Broadway" is a pleasant and often delightful little show; it importance is negligible but its flavor is lasting and Ruth Chatterton's acting and Albert Lewis's production work are largely responsible. The story is about an actor and actress who have teamed together for some ten years, at the end of which they give their farewell performance and move to Iowa, Mother Nature, and disaffection...
...better nine-tenths of the combination is the only actress we have seen who could lead with both her chins and get away with it, and her slight attack of avoirdupois is not in the least detrimental of the effectiveness of her portrayal. It is unfortunate for "West of Broadway" that the same cannot be said for Walter Abel; he poses from one side of the stage to the other; and though the audience is expected to envision him as something of a great or romantic ham, he is unconvincing their as great or romantic; his greatest asset...
...West of Broadway" is light stuff, but is never takes itself seriously, and, consequently, passes as reasonably good entertainment...
Gale is dead, and Susan Glaspell and Zoe Akins are nowadays inactive on Broadway...
Only woman writing powerful dramas on Broadway today is blonde, 33-year-old Lillian Hellman. In 1934 she burst like a bomb over Broadway with her first play, the gripping, scandalous, tragic The Children's Hour. But for years before that New Orleans-born, Manhattan-bred Playwright Hellman had piled up theatrical experience as pressagent and playreader. The Children's Hour was scarcely off on its 20-month run when Lillian Hellman was rushed to Hollywood. There she adapted such cinema hits as The Dark Angel, These Three (the movie version of The Children's Hour), Dead...