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Folksy mid-western geniality again reigns supreme at the Copley theatre this week in the hilarious little farce, "Your Uncle Dudley", written by two clever actor-playwrights, Messrs. Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson. All of the stereotyped elements of light, small-town comedy are introduced in the evening's parade of the ridiculous. There is the sharp-tongued old grandmother who watches fights, domestic and public, with equal zest; there is the inescapable younger brother, of suppliant mien in financial matters and of blatant taste in underwear; there is the selfish, ambitious mother who is determined to carve...
When a celebrated actor chooses a vehicle, he is likely to pick something insignificant, to be sure that the merits of his performance outweigh the rest of the entertainment. When two celebrated actors select a vehicle, they are likely to have a hard time finding one which will suit this requirement for both of them. Arsene Lupin (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) can therefore be considered a triumph of selection and adaptation. It gives both Barrymore brothers, Lionel and John, parts of almost equal importance and allows each to perform his specialty without stealing the play from the other. Lionel is Guerchard...
Graced with the best profile and sharpest tongue in the Barrymore family, John has been vastly more publicized than his brother. He is now an actor so celebrated that everyone is familiar with the legends of his scapegrace youth...
Mitchell and Frank Craven. Actors Mitchell and Craven have hair which habitually looks as if they had just gotten out of bed, and each possesses an authentic whiskey baritone. Actor Mitchell is Chief of Detectives McKinley. Actor Craven is his crony, a local police court reporter. There follow 90 min. of peerless melodrama and comedy...
...moved by the same patriotism and the same ideals." Russia promised Poland freedom if the Allies won; the Central Powers promised freedom too. Patriotic Poles in the opposing armies, just to make their country's freedom doubly sure, shot each other on sight. On the Russian side was Actor Boleslavski of the Moscow Art Theatre. As an officer of the Polish Lancers he had a dashing part to play. "During the war, and later during the Revolution, we wandered in and out of the confusion, always a little detached from all of it. Though we fought and were killed...