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INK ABOUT GREASEPAINTBy Alice AlworthLOIS MORANOne of the most striking things about the success of Lois Moran in the theatrical world is that ambition—not luck—was re' sponsible for her climb. Lois has been theatre'con' scious since child'hood—and as a result, has led an extremely inter'esting life.She began hercareer at the age of 13, when she danced in ther1« csI*131ttrss1I1s/iJs*\rtt✓**\sts\ls19*iVIiAte■fsere*sss“Danger If I Love You.11 There issome excellent dancing too—the bestof which can be credited to Tom Won'der and Carl Randall. The loudercomedy bits are expertly handled byWilliam Kent and Lorraine Weimar,and the more violent clothes arestrikingly worn by Grace Hayes of the raven hair. I wonder if the speech with music called “She Met the Gov' ernor” impresses anyone as being funny.“A Little Racketeer11 is a good show. Its dancing moments are its fastest and its romantic moments areits most fetching.uThe Left Bank”There is no doubt that Elmer Rice knows his Paris. At least no one who has seen his play called “The Left Bank11 can have any doubt that Mr. Rice is “up11 on the subject of Amen icans living in Paris.The play, which is doing an excel' lent business at the Little Theatre, hasa novel way of presenting an oldstory. After all, the only way we can make new things under the sun is to polish up the old one. The brighter the polish, the greater the deception. “The Left Bank11 is highly and beau' tifully polished, and it was the “elbow grease11 of Mr. Rice which did the trick. He took the old, old story of two couples falling in love with other’s mates. He brought in a polish called “child education” and rubbed it into the old, old story. Presto! A seem'ingly new and amusing and stirring situation.The Shelbys are living in one of those miserable French hotels on the bank of the Seine in Paris. The Shel-bys have come from America so that Mr. Shelby can write in seclusion and in the atmosphere of the typical French public. Mrs. Shelby is tired of thismode of living, and wants to go back to America and educate their little boy, whom Mr. Shelby has put in an English institution for mal-adjusted children. Mr. Shelby will not make the change. The Lyndes move into the next room. They have just come from America so that Mrs. Lynde can study art in Paris. Mr. Lynde doesn t like the idea. The Lyndes have no children. Mrs. Lynde doesn’t want any but Mr. Lynde does. A love affair rears its leering head between Mr. Shelby and Mrs. Lynde and another occurs between Mrs. Shelby and Mr. Lynde. Result: Divorce anda room on the left bank for the former and a home and the Shelby child for the latter.Katherine Alexander is well cast asClair Shelby and Donald MacDonaldis fine in the part of Mr. Lynde. Mil-licent Green is very good in the ungraceful role of Mrs. Lynde and Horace Braham is about as nil as it is possible to be.“Forbidden”Frank Capra has done a marvelousjob with the direction of the picture “Forbidden,” at the Rialto Theatre inTimes Square. Barbara Stanwick, Adolph Menjou and Ralph Bellamygive three of the finest performancesever assembled in one picture. Barbara improves in every movie she makes, until she has come to be recognised as one of our best actresses. Adolph Menjou is free-lancing so that he will not be “typed” and I think it an excellent plan. He is a splendid actor. No one could have given a better performance than Ralph Bellamy in the role of the villain in “Forbidden.”The story concerns a girl and a lawyer who fall in love while on a Havana-bound boat. He doesn’t tell her that he is married to an invalid until some time later when she has a child. Although the revelation breaks them up for a time, she remains his mistress and helpmate for twenty years, during which time, with her guidance, he has risen to the office of Mayor. In order to protect the Mayor’s chances of being elected Governor, she ^marries the managing editor of a tabloid newspaper, and is forced to kill him to keep him from publishing the story of the Mayor’s past.
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Bronxville Press
Bronxville, New York, US
Fri, Jan 22, 1932
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