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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jan 24, 1937

Page

19

Eternal Road! Pleases Critics Atop Pageant Production

Gilbert W. Gabriel reviews Max Reinhardt’s staging of The Eternal Road at the Manhattan Opera House. He praises the spectacle’s grandeur and dramatic charge, noting Franz Werfel and Ludwig Lewisohn translated the text into a theatrical event marked by visual splendor and musical underlay by Kurt Weill.

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Champagne Waltz at Majestic Promises Musical Clash

A riotous battle of swing and Viennese waltz plays out in Champagne Waltz at the Majestic next Saturday starring Fred MacMurray and Gladys Swarthong. An American orchestra leader finds love and artistic tension amid the Strauss dynasty’s palace, leading to a sensational clash of modern sound and traditional dance. Supporting cast includes Jack Oakie Fritz Leiber Benny Baker Ernest Cossart Herman Bing Vivienne Osborne Frank Forest and Baem Coslow with a premier score by Frederick Hollander.

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You Cant Take It With You Tops 1934 Screen Prices

Discussion notes Columbia buying trend with Frank Capra influence as prices for screen rights soar. Samuel Goldwyn comments on scarcity of gold plays driving costs. Industry figures show 4.6 million dollars spent on 1936 purchases, with average around 100 dollars per story. Pipes of Pan club holds first meeting with officers elected and plans for next program.

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Moran Revival Reflects Nation’s Search for Spiritual Forerunners

MALCOLM VAUGHAN surveys a cultural shift in art as American painters from Moran to Eakins and Ryder are revisited. The piece notes Moran’s centenary celebrations, his self taught, pre-Raphaelite approach, and his role in fueling a taste for the poetic in landscape. It discusses his travels to Venice, the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone, and his influence on American art while acknowledging moments of fanciful depiction and optical debates.

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Stage Struck Returns at State Theater With Powell and Cast

Stage Struck opens its return engagement Tuesday in the State theater starring Dick Powell Jon Blondel Jeanne Madden Warren William Frank McHugh and a score of others. Powell portrays a musical former producer driven to destruction by a slur against his show. Miss Blondell plays the showgirl who has fame and money from many marriages and the latest husband’s situation.

Dick Powell Jon Blondel Jeanne Madden Warren William Frank McHugh Stats Theater Powell Miss Blondell

Club Soiree Date Set by San Antonio Music Club

The February soiree of the San Antonio Musical club is scheduled for Monday at 8:50 p.m. with performers including Dorothy Sandini Paul Hacusin Gladys Brooks Ojin Locke and the Schubert trio. The San Antonio Federation of Junior Music clubs formed at the Plaza Hotel ballroom with about 200 in attendance.

San Antonio Jefferson High School Raji. Sloan Carson J.page Spanger Dantor Muste Elibs Innie E. Hanson Mary Wilen Young

Three Live Ghosts to Be Presented Here

The Mission Flayera San Pedro playhouse will stage the second season production Three Live Ghosts on Monday February 1 directed by Harry and Florence Griffith Reserved seating will be available at the municipal theater and the comedy set in the post World War I era follows Tommies returning home The cast includes Dorothy Renn George Saliba David Rey nods Harry Chalkley Mary Trene Block Macy Elizabeth Cipiglay Ed Gittinger and James Rehm.

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Empty Saddles on Doors Theater Bill Headlines Buck Jones Film

The program at the State theater features Buck Jones in Empty Saddles a western tale of range wars and gunfighters presented with realistic action. Also shown is Can This Be Dixie starring Jane Withers a story of a girl and her guardian in the South finding trouble and mending a broken romance amid wanderers and conflict.

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First screen tests for Thinley Ross and Irene Hervey

GOOb S07 star Thinley Ross and Rob ert Cummings shot 85 of 100 at the Los Angeles department pistol range marking her first pistol shot. Irene Hervey, linked with Richard A. Rowland's Paramount film Big Time Love, earned her first screen test after weeks at the casting office, leading to a role with Lionel Barrymore.

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Gallo Brings Opera to 5.A in San Antonio

Gallo presents San Carlo Opera at the Texas theater for two nights and a matinee with Rigoletto Il Travatore and Faust. The program features Italian operas with rich choral backing and popular French selections. Reservations are via mail order with a favorable price scale to broaden attendance.

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