Word: uptown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Miss Le Gallienne had never done better business, the downtown playhouse abandoned repertory, closed its doors. Uptown to Florenz Ziegfeld's old New Amsterdam Theatre went the Repertory's Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass. Explanation for this change in policy brought forth a hitherto unknown fact about the organization: even a capacity week ($9,500 gross) could not pay the Repertory's bills. For years a number of public-spirited citizens have been making up the $8,000 monthly deficit, because Producer Le Gallienne would rather close up shop than raise...
...taking Alice uptown to the rescue, the Repertory Theatre hopes to recoup enough to go back to repertory. "The production of Alice," said the New York Sun, "gives opportunity for thousands to become, in a way, endowers of a theatre which deserves their aid-and to have fun doing...
...Uptown New York (World Wide) is in a quieter vein than Central Park (see above), a three-cornered Bronx romance about a blonde Patricia (Shirley Grey) who marries a chewing gum salesman (Jack Oakie) after she has had a love affair with a successful surgeon (Leon Waycoff). The time comes when, to save Patricia's life after an accident, it is necessary for the surgeon to operate on her. Eddie, her husband, decides that after all Patricia likes the surgeon best; to facilitate her leaving him, he absents himself from home. When Patricia guesses what he has done...
...Uptown New York was written by Vina Delmar with dangerous recklessness as to motivation but with a good eye for local color. The hero and heroine meet each other in a ladies' room-which, as the cinema becomes less pastoral, is growing in popularity as a romantic setting-but thereafter the story manages to keep closer to the kitchen than the bathroom. Good sequence: Eddie taking his girl to a wrestling match, proposing to her during a flying mare. Flesh (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Poor old Wallace Beery does not have a very happy time in the Cinema...
Radio likewise made several financial adjustments last week. The two electric companies agreed to wipe off $8,938,000 of RCA's $17,938,000 debt to them. GE bought Radio's uptown Manhattan building for $4,745,000. Rockefeller Center Inc. at the same time agreed to let RCA reduce the amount of space it has leased, accepting $5,000,000 worth of preferred RCA stock for this concession...