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Last week, with the reverberations of Orson Welles's radio riot still ringing in everyone's ears, Atkinson reviewed the Orson Welles-directed, Danton's Death (see col. 2). His review concluded: "(Ladies and gentlemen, you have just been reading a review of a performance of 'Danton's Death' at the Mercury Theatre last evening. It is a play of imagination based on history. There is no occasion for alarm...
...great characters of history are exhibited in wax. On Broadway this season much the same thing is being done in grease paint. Already Abraham Lincoln, Jesse James, Pieter Stuyvesant, Gilbert & Sullivan, Marie Antoinette, Queen Victoria and Oscar Wilde have been on view;* this week brings Danton and Robespierre; the next few weeks promise Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Richard III, General Howe, Queen Elizabeth, Madame Jumel, Lord Byron, Herod and Harriet Beecher Stowe...
...with great vigor, took curtain calls along with Poet Guiterman. In a cast that sang as freshly as any this season, particular credit went to Helen Traubel of St. Louis for a powerful-voiced Mary. Arthur Carron sang Philip expressively, looked so little the romantic part that forthright Critic Danton Walker of the Daily News felt his sentence of banishment should have been a bread-&-water diet...
...Universal's program of 42 pictures, most notable was a life of Mme Curie, to prepare for which Irene Dunne was last week visiting Mme Curie's daughter Eve in Paris. Warner Brothers, who set the vogue for serious biographies in cinema, planned six more, including Danton, Joan of Arc and The Story of Beethoven, as well as their usual investigations of singing, dancing and machine-gun shooting...
...football sweater of the shock-brigader, the kerchief md ribbons of a young Communist girL the passing banner of the shock-brigade, the childish poster with its turtle or its steam engine, or the torn canvas trousers-are they not a thousand, thousand times more precious to us than Danton's brown frockcoat, Desmoulins' overturned chair, the Phrygian night cap, the order for arrest signed by the blue hands of Robespierre, the last letter of the Queen, and the faded tri-color cockade, ancient and light, like a dry flower?" So says Author Valentine Kataev. Capitalist readers might...