Screenland (Nov 1931-Mar 1932)

for February 1932 "The School for Scandal" As Lady Teazle Ethel Barrymore took her position at last in the great DrewBarrymore tradition. She has wabbled hither and thither; but she is, I wager, going down to posterity as Lady Teazle, just as her great aunt, Mrs. John Drew (Uncle Jack's mother), did. The Barrymore Teazle is a compound of grace, beauty, sophistication and dramatic power. She makes of her an eternal character, a woman who, married to old Sir Peter Teazle, can cast longing looks elsewhere, but who, when the moment comes, as it did in the famous screen scene, can ride down her feminine hokum and emerge a woman with a firm grip on herself. Ethel Barrymore did this scene superbly. And she was gorgeous to look upon in her modish eighteenth century hats and gowns. See "The School for Scandal" and you'll discover where most of our domestic farces and comedies are cribbed from. It is still a brilliant and up-to-date satire. Charles Croker-King was a splendid and vivid Sir Peter Teazle. McKay Morris did not grasp at all the character of the hypocritical Joseph Surface. The rest of the company was good. But Ethel of the Tribe of Barrymores is the high light. 109 Hazel Dawn gives an amusing performance on the stage in "Wonder Boy." "The Laugh Parade" Ed Wynn is the reverse of Bobby Clark, Eddie Howard and Joe Cook. He is in a class all by himself — sui generis, as Mae West would say. In his coonskin cap, his goggles, his lostin-the-woods air, his quiet way of dragging an explosive laugh out of your vest he is incomparable. Never has he ridden higher than in "The Laugh Parade." He is almost the whole show, with due salutes to the Di Gatanos, who stage a whirlwind Apache dance that is savage enough to almost make you holler, "Quit it!" There are also Eunice Healy, who dances well, and La Jeanne Aubert, who is la-la ! "Wonder Boy" The pictures take it on the chin again in "Wonder Boy," by Chodorov and Barton. 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