Word: schildkraut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main thing Domini and Boris have in common, conveniently for Producer Selznick's cameras, is a wish to see the desert. They do it in a caravan whose manager is a bubbling young Algerian named Batouch (Joseph Schildkraut). Tripping about the North Sahara they enjoy life to the full until one night a French Army officer, lost with his troop, happens on their camp. When Batouch brings in a bottle of the Trappist liqueur Lagarnine, the officer remembers where he has met Boris before. Without so much as saying, "It's a small world after all," he goes...
...opening production is "Gallery Gods", an adaptation by Henrietta Malkiel and John Houseman of a play by Richard Duschinsky. Several seasons ago the work was presented by Joseph Schildkraut in Brooklyn and then withdrawn for revision. It tells the story of two young thespians, man and wife, whose failure to secure parts has driven them to the margin of starvation. Seaching for a fresh face, a producer is taken with a photograph of the wife and offers her the lead in his forthcoming production which is to star Friedrich Gurtler, a tremendous matinee idol who is also, as he himself...
...captain under Madero, Villa captures towns in the north of Mexico whenever he feels like it. He takes Santa Rosalia against the orders of a superior officer. General Pascal (Joseph Schildkraut), to oblige a U. S. newspaperman (Stuart Erwin) who has written the story in advance. To oblige a wench named Rosita (Katherine de Mille, sultry daughter of Producer Cecil Blount de Mille) Villa has the newspaperman conduct a wedding ceremony. When Madero goes to Mexico City, there is no further work for Villa. He gets into a scrape for killing a bank cashier who is slow about cashing...
...stage, a thoroughly worth-while 'March of TIME.' TIME Marches On.'-ED. Christina & Voltaire Sirs: If M-G-M is actually to blame TIME, Jan. 8 is guilty of repeating without comment the anachronistical description of Queen Christina (died 1689) reading Voltaire (born 1694). L. SCHILDKRAUT LEE Cowansville, Que. Sirs: VOLTAIRE WAS CERTAINLY PRECOCIOUS BUT HIS PRENATAL WORK HAS HITHERTO REMAINED UNDISCLOSED STOP SUGGEST THEREFORE THAT DISCOVERY BY MGM ON TIME P. 24 ISSUED JAN 8 THAT CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN" WAS ONE OF HIS READERS DESERVES FURTHER AMPLIFICATION UNDER THE HEADING QUOTE NEWS UNQUOTE STOP...
...costumes, masks, scenery. Richard Addinsell's musical accompaniment is gay and tuneful. Straight from the printed page through the voice of Josephine Hutchinson, in pinafore and long golden hair, comes the sense of Alice's constant wonderment. "Off with their heads, off with their heads!" shrills Joseph Schildkraut as the Queen of Hearts. And the Mad Hatter (Landon Herrick) runs about cup in hand with IN THIS STYLE IO/ 6 stuck in his towering headpiece. The Walrus and the Carpenter, two large marionettes, eat little marionette oysters as pot-bellied Tweedledum & Tweedledee recite their poem. The Mouse...