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...almost beyond recognition. The Muny Rip was a radio entertainer who took too much bootleg gin and dreamed he was the sleepy Washington Irving hero. He sang one piece called ''My Hudson River Home" which was strangely like "Ol' Man River," Red Coats traveled through the papier-mâché Catskills in a rattly old Ford, spent their evenings listening to a portable radio. Audiences seemed to relish the crass 1933 interpolations but the scene
...Caspar Neher goes credit for some unique scenery, including two invaluable magic lantern screens which announce numbers and situations, and a papier-máché horse which slides out of a pipe organ just in time to save Captain Macheath's life. Composer Weill's music is dissonantly insinuating. A sample of Librettist Brecht's strange but robust work...
...Ballyhoo's many-hued curtain goes up. The revue (written by Ballyhoo magazine's editor, Norman Anthony) keeps its leering promise. Able Comedian Willie Howard struggles home on a street car with the most essential fixture for his bathroom; with Brother Eugene he tries to make a papier-mâché cow "give"; on a Columbus Circle soap box he makes a Communist speech: "Rewolt! Our cup of beeterness ees feeled to ze breem! Rewolt!'' There is a nudist sketch; a scene in Cinemactress "Margreta Garbitch's" Hollywood training quarters; a song called "Love...
...stage and chewed gum apathetically. After hearing his defense, which attributed the murders to two mythical acquaintances of Powers', a jury of farmers and townspeople retired to the star's dressing room, deliberated for not quite two hours. From his desk which was framed by papier-mâché trees, the judge heard the verdict read: murder in the first degree. He sentenced West Virginia's "Bluebeard" to hang Friday, March 18, 1932. Unmoved, little Murderer Powers was led away on his chain, the court room's footlights extinguished...
...business is well demonstrated by this story of a foreign prince, a U. S. millionaire, a lady, and a tiger, which has been told before but never so effectively. In the 1914 manner of the cinema, it was a story of marital infidelity as crude and tawdry as its papier-mâché settings. As done in the 1919 epoch, it was a heavy-footed charade, overburdened with its setting. Now, a vehicle for Greta Garbo's disturbing shadow, it moves lightly, even wittily, and the lady's momentary struggle between her husband's coldness...