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...Interior Decorator Hobe Erwin and by another competent performance by Franchot Tone. When Franchot Tone emigrated from the Manhattan stage last autumn, his work in plays like Green Grow the Lilacs, The House of Connelly, Success Story, had caused him to be considered perhaps the most intelligent young actor on Broadway. Drama Critic Stark Young of the New Republic wrote an accolade in which he suggested that Actor Tone's roles were "played from a solid, flexible and imaginative basis such as no other of our young actors and few of the older can show." suggested that it would...
...putting out into Great South Bay to catch weakfish, with his son Robert. Actor Victor Moore (Of Thee I Sing's Vice President Alexander Throttlebottom) lost control of his outboard motorboat, Embobora II, when its tiller inexplicably came loose in his hand. Down upon him bore a dory. There was a smash-bang amidships and the next thing Alexander Throttlebottom knew he was thrashing about beneath his own overturned craft. He tried to duck out on one side only to crack his head on wreckage, see stars. Down he went again, coming up on the other side. Breathless...
Married. Robert Edmond Jones, 45, No. 1 U. S. stage designer; and Margaret Huston Carrington, fiftyish, backer of opera using sets by Jones, sister of Actor Walter Huston; in Greenwich, Conn...
Died. Winchell Smith. 61, actor, producer, playwright (Lightnin', Turn to the Right, Brewster's Millions) whose theatrical ventures yielded him $6,000,000; of arteriosclerosis; in Hartford, Conn. With Producer Arnold Daly he introduced the plays of George Bernard Shaw into the U. S., was arrested for staging Mrs. Warren's Profession. His first play. Brewster's Millions, earned $1,000,000. Lightnin', written in 1918 in collaboration with Frank Bacon, ran for three years in Manhattan. In 1919 he retired, sold his interests to Producer John Golden. Three years ago he emerged from retirement...
This is a dissertation on Mr. George Arliss. Several years ago George Jean Nathan said a last word, almost an epitaph, over Mr. George Arliss. Nathan had just seen the celebrated actor in a famous part, and he jotted for his journal the simple comment that Mr. George Arliss splendidly portrayed Hamlet as Mr. George Arliss. That is all that need be said of "The Working Man" now playing at the University Theatre. It is a typical Arliss play, about a self-made old gentleman who still holds his own in the world and proves to his worthy whippersnapper heir...