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Peggy Shannon's presence contributed to the fall pepping up of Broadway.
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Aline MacMahon's contract allows
her to spend half her time in New
York with her architect husband.
Stars flocking to Manhattan for vacations add
glamour to the opening of the theatrical season.
THE busy theatrical season on Broadway coincides with the early shut-down season in Hollywood, so suddenly Manhattan got all cluttered up with celebrities. The paying guests at theaters had. for a few weeks, a gambler's chance at sitting next to their favorite stars. Among those present are, or rather were, for they sailed for a belated honeymoon in Europe, John Gilbert and his new wife, Virginia Bruce. Here to stay for a while are Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg. Aline MacMahon, Dorothy Jordan, Irene Rich, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lloyd, Miriam Hopkins, Helen Chandler, Constance Cummings, Marguerite Churchill, Peggy Shannon, Ina Claire, Rose Hobart, Genevieve Tobin — oh, I could go on and on like this just remembering whom I had bumped into at the hospital where Lilyan Tashman is recovering from an operation for appendicitis, who was violently applauding Herbert Rawlinson's performance at the opening of "When Ladies Meet," who were doing their bit toward helping to feed hungry actors by patronizing the. Actors' Dinner Club, and who were leaning up against the bar at Tony's.
Delayed Glory. — Lady Luck has been less than generous up to now to Marguerite Churchill, who went to Hollywood with considerable prestige won on the Broadway stage. She has never given an uninteresting performance in a picture, but she just hasn't been assigned to outstanding pictures. Finding work in Hollywood a vicious circle that landed her approximately where she started her career, she returned to New York. She had heard that times were bad in the theater, but she called up a manager in the course of looking up old friends, and you can imagine her surprise when he told her to hop in a taxi and come right over. She started rehearsals at once in "Dinner at Eight." As it was written by George Kaufman and Edna Ferber, every one expects it to be a knock-out.
Theme Song. — As this is written, a good word has yet to be said for Joan Crawford's performance in "Rain." Nevertheless, crowds are pouring into the theaters to see it. On Broadway William Gargan would bring them in ; can it be that every one else has heard about him ? Anyway, theater managers competing against those where "Rain" is being shown are singing "Rain, rain, go away, don't come again some other day," et cetera.
First Nighters. — Audiences at play openings nowadays watch the actors on the stage with one eye and those in the audience with the
other.
"Ol' Man Satan," a pretty dull play performed by Negroes, had little chance of distracting attention from Irene Rich out front. She was looking spectacularly young and radiant. muffled in white fox. She is on one of her between-pictures vaudeville tours, gay and vivacious as ever, and simply blooming with health. Irene won't sign for work for more than six weeks. She likes to feel free to give in to a sudden wYiiin to go gallivanting oil to Europe or somewhere. She has her whims under excellent control, though.. They are all for keeping her where work and profits are.