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...were sprinting toward the boards last week as the new dramatic season got really started. Six plays, half as many as had appeared in the preceding two months, opened in Manhattan (see p. 27). One was a superb musical show. One was a very funny comedy. And the Theatre Guild began its 16th season with a production which, if not the most important, was one of the most remarkable in U. S. theatrical history...
...tiddledy. There were a quarter-million of them: 20,000 dressmakers, 10,000 brokers & bankers and their clerks, 1,000 barbers, 35,000 city employes, 6,000 cinema workers led by Al Jolson, 5,000 oil workers led by Walter Teagle, metal workers, hatters, florists, waitresses, soda jerkers. Every guild, every trade and calling was on hand to honor the Blue Eagle. that hopeful bird with lightning in his claw...
...Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a perfectly comprehensible, eminently readable memoir.* It has been approved by the bluestocking Atlantic Monthly (where part of it was serialized), and is sponsored by the Literary Guild. Though it is actually the autobiography of Ger- trude Stein, unwary readers might get all the way to the 310th and last page without discovering the mild hoax. For no author's name is on the title-page, and the book is written as if by Alice B. Toklas herself. But cognoscenti, even if they had not been forewarned by advance publicity, would recognize...
...word about the theatres themselves. Big hits, like "Green Pastures" and "Of Thee I Sing," usually show at the Shubert, Wilbur, or Colonial. Theatre Guild productions and plays casting favorite actors usually appear at the Plymouth or Hollis. First run movies like "Cavalcade" come to the Majestic. Almost anything is liable to happen at the Tremont. The Opera House is the scene of wrestling bouts, musical comedies, and opera. A good way to see a little opera is to get a job as an extra...
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Edward of Wales have both had biographies done into cinema for publicity purposes. In Manhattan last week opened a film sponsored by the Catholic Writers Guild for "those whose circumstances prevent them from appearing before [the Pope] in person at Rome." It is a compilation of newsreels concerning Pope Pius XI, interspersed with picture postcard views of Rome and the Vatican. Entitled The Shepherd of the Seven Hills (by Faith Pictures Corp., formed solely for this production), it will be shown throughout...