Word: lew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night club. Director Hobart Henley can thus change the subject whenever one set of characters begins to get dull, as in Vicki Baum's kaleidoscopic Grand Hotel. Mae Clarke is a square-shooting chorus girl who talks like a Girl Scout. She pities a young patron (Lew Ayres) who is the scion of a famed murder case and drinks to forget. Young love burgeons while gyp and doublecross are rampant all around, practiced by the proprietor (Boris Kar-loff), his wife (Dorothy Revier), her lover, the guests and Lew Ayres's mother (Hedda Hopper). Besides the burgeoning juveniles...
...music, by Lew Brown and Ray Henderson, is not particularly tuneful, but Mr. Lahr may be correct when he sings: "I Make up for That in Other Ways...
...picture has pace, not slowing up for the customary love interest, and the four year long football career of two young men is shown with considerable accuracy and humor. Although Lew Ayres and William Bakewell fall a little short in portraying dashing half-backs, the presence of Frank Carideo and the "Four Horsemen" contribute toward the creation of a genuine athletic atmosphere. It was inevitable that there should be occasional slips into the sentimental, but these were few, and the impression received was an almost literal one of a phase of college life which has for an emblem the brown...
George White's Scandals is lightsome, for the most part pleasing entertainment. Producer White enlivened proceedings on the opening night by staging an impromptu fist fight in the theatre lobby with his librettist Lew Brown...
...Monday night Mr. Lew Leslie, of Blackbird fame brought his last season's review, "Rhapsody in Black" to the Majestic Theatre. If any indication can be gained from the opening night it will be fairly easy to predict that the show will have a good run in Boston. The audience, of which the coloured part was the most demonstrative, fairly brought down the house, augmenting its thunderous applause with the more violent forms of public demonstration, i.e., stamping, whistling and shouting. That this was not deserved will be hard to dispute, but the production did not measure...