Word: playgoers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corpses. Mark Ingestrie (W. McM. Heyl '33) is the sailor lad in love with demure Johanna Oakley (C. J. Fleming '33). It is Mark's pearls which arouse the avarice of the Fleet Street razor wielder and finally bring about his apparent demise via his own unholy chair. The Playgoer cannot assay to conduct his readers through the plot of a Victorian melodrama, but they may rest assured that there is action and bloodshed galore...
...Playgoer has always believed that all amateur productions should be melodramas. "Sweeney Todd" richly fulfills this requirement. The crime is hideous, the costumes are beautiful and the mechanical barber's chair rivals its legendary model in promptness and efficiency...
...hundred cash customers waiting for seats in the Metropolitan lobby. Let us grant the truth of the lyric that "without a song a man's no good nohow" and say that those people were waiting to hear a song, "42nd Street." They had heard it, perhaps, as the Playgoer did, over the radio the night before. Even in the stage show, the best sequence was some hotcha dance routine by three white-draped cuties impelled by the tune "That Sentimental Gen'lman From Georgia" . . . and you can keep right on playing it, right on playing...
...plot is simply the story of the production of a musical comedy. Warner Baxter plays the imperious theatrical producer with a fiery zest which again prompts the Playgoer to express the hope that some day, somehow, by accident perhaps, Warner Brothers will give him a real part. Ruby Keeler is the "green kid out of the chorus" who is selected to play the lead when the star breaks her ankle the night before opening. Bobe Daniels was the star and quite a satisfactory one, too, right up to the last. At this point, ha, ha, that is, were you ever...
...companion picture "Hat Check Girl" can lay its only claim to being a presentable moving picture in the person of Miss Sally Eilers. The "Girl of the Perfect Profile" has undergone a metamorphosis, whether natural or artificial it is not for the Playgoer to say, that produces a creature so nearly like Dorothy Jordan as to confuse the unfortunate spectator caught in the profusion of charms. Ben Lyon proves himself an admirable drunk but a suit brought by Robert Montgomery on the grounds of plagiarism, should be forthcoming...