Word: liliom
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...reopening of her famed dramatic workshop, closed all last year. Anything the Repertory company might have put on for its début would have excited cheers from its devoted following. The audience was still howling gratefully long after the critics had left to write their praiseful reviews of Liliom, in which Miss Le Gallienne and Joseph Schildkraut revived the parts which made them and the Theatre Guild famous...
...settings were not by Lee Simonson, the carousel tune was different and portly Dudley Digges was not Liliom's evil friend "Sparrow." Otherwise, the Repertory's Molnar revival was moment for moment the play of eleven years back. Actor Schildkraut, strutting, slapping the girls, blowing his nose with his hand, interprets the character of a sideshow barker who has nothing to be admired save an abiding arrogance which he carries with him up to and through the gates of perdition. Miss Le Gallienne, as the servant girl whom he lives with, beats and foolishly dies for, gives...
...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...