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...Central Square, until Wednesday, Will Rogers is portraying the role he has always wanted to play--that of Lightnin' Bill Jones. At least once in every comedian's life there comes a time when he longs to play a character part--to throw off his comical clothes and show his public that he can really act. Will Rogers chose as his vehicle "Lightnin'," the play written by Frank Bacon and Winchell Smith, and staged by John golden...
...Bill and his wife, who run a hotel, the Calivada, on the boundary line of California and Nevada. To the hotel come numerous ladies to remain for three months in the Nevada wing to secure divorces from their husbands. Louise Dresser is the wife who manages the hotel, while Lightnin' loafs and in his simple way ingratiates himself with the guests. Promoters of a fake stock company appear on the scene and try to buy the hotel in exchange for stock. "Mother" (the wife) is all in favor of the idea, but Lightnin' distrusts the men and refuses to sign...
...Mayflower Hotel last week for President Hoover. Forty-four other guests attended including Harvey Firestone, Charles Michael Schwab, William Wallace Atterbury, Mrs. Jacob Leander Loose (Kansas City cracker widow). Afterward Vice President Curtis entertained them with a newsreel of a Cabinet meeting and of Will Rogers' cinema Lightnin...
...Lightnin' (Fox). The old play which the late Frank Bacon helped to write and which he played 1,291 times on Broadway is now a vehicle for some adroit homespun fooling by Will Rogers. It is not so good as a picture as it was on the stage because the camera too often follows wandering sequences of the plot, but it is handsomely arranged and fairly funny. Will Rogers seems to enjoy himself as the boozing but golden-hearted rustic whose only decisive action is a refusal to sign papers that would have permitted his wife to sell...
More versatile than they was their father, the late James Steele MacKaye (1842-94), painter, actor, playwright, producer, lecturer on esthetic philosophy, inventor. His Hazel Kirke (1879) ran longer than any U. S. play until Frank Bacon's Lightnin' (1918). He organized the first U. S. school of expression, originated "harmonic gymnastics," first used over-head lighting in theatres, invented folding theatre chairs...