Screenland (Nov 1929-Apr 1930)

for February 1930 The Stage in Review Continued from page 95 blood to fiery dream-kisses and starts the champagne-atoms gurgling in my throat! "A Wonderful Night" is the Shubert version of "Die Fledermaus." On the re volving stage of the Majestic it is three solid hours of kaleidoscopic eye-and-ear assault. It is Vienna of seventy years ago when life in the very streets went on to the rat-a-tat-tat of champagne corks. It tells the .story of a man who has got to go to jail for eight days, doesn't, but goes to a ball with the warden instead, while his wife — oh, well — see? But it's the music that makes this the best musical show of the season — at least the equal of "Sweet Adeline." Gladys Baxter as Mathilda Greenwald, wife of the gay Max, is a thing of beauty and has a good footlight voice. Neck-and' neck with her travels Mary McCoy, a thriller in a way. "The Criminal Code" Here is grim satire — the irony of what we call justice, the brutal fist of fate that might flatten any one of us out at any minute, as the warden of the jail says. "Things break like that," is Arthur Byron's first and last word both as the District Attorney and then as the warden. In this role Mr. Byron caps his long career with one of the most convincing bits of acting seen on Broadway in some seasons. Robert Graham (played perfectly by Russell Hardie) has been .sent up for ten years for killing a man in a mistaken gesture of self-defence. The whole play takes place in prison and is a conflict between the criminals' code Thou shalt not squeal! and the law which says, Thou shalt pay! Down in the 'cooler,' where Hardie has been put because he wouldn't squeal, a thug of a keeper has been murdered by this boy just as his parole comes to the warden's desk upstairs. The parole has been obtained by the warden, who had been compelled to prosecute him as District Attorney, and his daughter. Of course Robert has now got to go to the chair. "Things break like that," dryly says the warden as the final curtain falls. This is not just another crook play, for no one is really guilty of anything. The Moloch Circumstance is guilty. Convict it, if you can! "Many Waters" "Nothing ever happened to them" — I've said it many times of quiet, commonplace people — well, you know, the kind that always carry an umbrella, wear rubbers and just listen. Which merely stamps me as a jackass every time I say it, for tremendously dramatic and tragic things are happening to the least of us all the time. But it takes a fine playwright like Monckton Hoffe and two fine players like Ernest Truex and Marda Vanne to reveal it to us. 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