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...First Apple"--Shubert. A rather dull play replete with aged humorous platitudes. Conrad Nagel is better on the stage than he is on the screen...
...Minute Alibi (by Anthony Armstrong; Crosby Gaige & Lee Shubert, producers). London has been excited about this play for the past ten months, and no wonder. Less ghoulish than Rope's End, as cleverly constructed as A. A. Milne's classic thriller The Perfect Alibi, Playwright Armstrong's piece leaps nimbly over all the stenciled pitfalls which ensnare such pedestrian efforts as Keeper of the Keys...
...Julian Thompson, adapted from the German of Walter Hasenclever; Lee Shubert, producer). Behind Her Man of Wax is an idea as excellent as any that ever suffered mutilation at the hands of an adapter. Napoleon reappears in 1933. is hailed as a savior by a chaotic world until it is discovered that a 19th Century man cannot cope with 20th Century problems...
...West, was a prizefighter and theatre bouncer. Her sister played in vaudeville as Beverly Osborne. In vaudeville, Mae West developed her figure with an acrobatic act in which she lifted a 500-lb. weight, supported three 150-lb. male assistants. She played with Ed Wynn in Sometime, shimmied in Shubert revues, made her name on the Manhattan stage with Diamond Lil, in which she was a genial prostitute. The enormous swan-shaped bed which appeared on the stage in Diamond Lil came from Mae West's home, once belonged to Diamond Jim Brady...
...produce Owen Davis' Jezebel, a play about old New Orleans. George White will have a new Scandals, Lew Leslie a new Blackbirds. Walter Hampden is rehearsing Ruy Bias. Max Gordon is making ready Gowns by Roberta, with music & libretto by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach. The Brothers Shubert, scrambling out of bankruptcy, have already presented Joe Cook to gasping audiences, will put on a Follies with Fanny Brice. In collaboration with Jed Harris the Shuberts will produce The Green Bay Tree, a play about sexual abnormality calculated to shock as thoroughly as did The Captive. A sequel...