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Masquerade in Vienna (George Kraska) is based upon an episode in the life of Franz von Reznicek, who was the Peter Arno of Austria 40 years ago. Made in Europe in 1934, the film was bought by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and reproduced completely year and a half ago as Escapade, with Luise Rainer in the lead. So good was MGM's job that Actress Rainer was catapulted to Hollywood stardom. Meanwhile the original cinema was winning acclaim in Europe. Last week, with Escapade well out of the way, MGM allowed the original Masquerade in Vienna to appear...
...Kraska assures us in his advance circular that Fraulein Bergner has acted the part of Rosalind in the legitimate theatre a tremendous number of times. If this is true it is just unfortunate. There was nothing, well, almost nothing, that Miss Bergner could do to spoil one's enjoyment of "As You Like It" that she did not do. She spoke her lines with a heavy German accent, rendering at least half of them unintelligible. She simpered so with Celia (Sophie Stewart) (and Celia simpered back) that one squirmed in one's seat. She acted the part of Ganymede with...
Also beginning this week, Mr. Kraska announces a magnificent innovation in theatre fare. Once every day, including Sunday. at 12.30 o'clock, preceding the first show, concerts will be presented in their entirety, recorded by artists of distinction. This first program is dedicated to Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, whose brilliant rendering of the Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D Major opens the series...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, last night inaugurated a new venture in visual education at the Fine Arts Theatre, when the first of a series of programs to be presented by the Adult Education Council of Greater Boston was given, in cooperation with George Kraska, manager of the theatre...