Word: liliom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liliom (revival), with Eva LeGallienne & Joseph Schildkraut...
Rose Hobart is a charming and intelligent actress, who is now on that treacherous middle ground between a successful début (as Julie in Liliom) and stardom. By no means awed at this status, Cinemactress Hobart was in much the same position a year ago when, after making her second talkie (A Lady Surrenders), she returned to the stage whence she had been coaxed by Carl Laemmle Jr., who admired her in Death Takes a Holiday. Her face, not conventionally beautiful, photographs better when turned toward the camera than in profile. The charm of her low voice perfectly survives...
...stand it takes. It first states a fact with which all thinking members of the Club are in full accord, that the Club's legitimate field of choice is among good plays which have not the box-office attraction requisite for professional production. "But in default of such, a Liliom would not be amiss." The very next sentence strongly recommends "avoiding the re-hashing of box-office successes." Does the CRIMSON mean by this that Liliom was not a box-office success? Or would the Club's production of it not be a re-hash...
...conventional authors as John Galsworthy and A. A. Milne, is not explained. The CRIMSON further allows that "by avoiding musical comedy or the re-hashing of box-office successes, the Dramatic Club escapes the stigma" of producing "amateur theatricals;" at the same time, however, the editorial ventures that a "Liliom" would not be amiss. The conclusion would seem to be that principles are all very well, so long as nobody applies them: that the Dramatic Club may have principles, but that it must avoid a Policy...
...sufficient box-office attraction, or it just isn't worth producing. Plays of the former class, plays which are good but do not have that "it" which is essential to a Broadway appearance, constitute the logical field of choice for the Dramatic Club. But in default of such, a "Liliom" would not be amiss...