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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1933 Personalities of the Stage and the Screen and Tidings of Their Doings THE MAD MARXES RETURN TO Here are a rariraturitt's Impmtion nf and t.rnueha in 'Duck Soup' al the Kiioti Theater. JUDITH ANDERSON Richard Dix's newest starring, film, "Ace of Aces," is the major screen attraction today and tomorrow at the RKO Prospect Theater. The Prospect's current vaudeville: bill is headed by William and Elsa I Newell. "After Tonight," starring Constance Bennett, is the principal offering during the first half of the week at the RKO Madison, Ken-more and Dvker theaters. This ture may be seen also at the RKO Tilyou Theater today and tomorrow.

The Greenpoint's program today to Tuesday includes "Ace of Aces" and "Ladies Must Love," while the current bill at the Orpheum offers "Ace of Aces" and "Deluge." From Tuesday to Thursday the Prospect will present "After Tonight" in addition to the customary vaudeville bill. "Ace of Aces" and one other feature film will be shown at the Madison, Kenmore. Dykcr and Tilyou theaters during the last half of the week. TOWN Gummo Marx Drops In on 'Duck Soup' The familiar prophet without honor in his own country is a pikenl The Four Marx Brothers are without honor in their own family. At least, insofar as Brother No.

5, Gummo, is concerned. Gummo, who retired from the act when the war begaii, was an interested onlooker at the first showing of "Duck Soup" at the Rlvoll Theater. His lour cinematic brothers sang, danced, performed feats of magic, fought a mythical war, imitated the Three Little Pigs and each other, and did everything' else except to pop bodily from the screen. The audience guffawed and took it big. But Gummo just sat and stared.

Not a smile flicked across his Marxian face. definitely of the Marx clan, resembling Zeppo very closely. "This is a serious business with me." declared Gummo who has just left the dress business to re-associate himself with his brothers in the capacity of business manager. "I saw 'Duck Soup' in production. I've heard every gag a hundred times.

I've watched various little bits of business rehearsed for days. The only way I have of knowing if a scene is funny is by the audience office In front of which was a long queue of prospective customers. "Yenh it's funnv." he declared and strode off Jauntily down Broadway His Name Is Edward But They Call Him Mike and Eduardo l.eudinn ptuftr in The Drum, at the SAllberl Theater. New Films Offered KKO Local Houses! At Minsky's opera for its leading tenor. Bartlett was an unqualified success in Italy in opera.

He sang in "La Boheme." "Lucia." "Tosca" and other operas in miny cities. Trieste, where he made till debut after four years of intensive study. Genoa. Turin and Rome. He studied with Guiseppe Companarl here before tioing to Milan to complete his operatic education.

But after several years in for- A typical Minsky cast of 65 funsters will appear on the stage of Billy Minsky's Brooklyn Theater in a new two-act burlesque labeled What! No Footrails" beginning to- by Mr. Rossen, is now at the 49th Street Theater Unlike "Kultur," this new. play of the Nazi regime is not satire. It is best described as a realistic portraiture of the plight of one Jewish fajnily In the days just preceding and immediately following the accession of Herr Hitler to the Chancellorship of the Reich. Mr.

Maibaum. the author of the play, has recently returned from abroad where he interviewed some 40 German-Jewish refugees. It is on the basis of these Interviews that he wrote and the play, as a result, is composite picture of Jewish life in Germany as mirrored by these refugees. Every statement made in the play the author and producers state, is predicated on fact. It is for this reason that they deny the play is propaganda.

Just as the proven truth is not libel, a presentation of the unvarnished facts is not propaganda. The author of the play, Mr. Maibaum, is a 24-year-old New Yorker was previously represented on Broadway by another play, "The Tree." He is a graduate of the University of Iawa, and was, for a year, an instructor in the department of dramatic arts at that university. Last year he was a member of the permanent playing company of the Shakespeare Repertory Company. Mr.

Rossen. "Birthright's" director, performed similarly for "'The Tree." He previously had served as stage manager for the production of the very successful play based on the Mooney-Billings case. Hitler Mirrored For Stage gain Hitlerism has been the subject of so many books that the stalls are overladen with them; hardly a magazine can be perused without noting an article on some phase or other of the subject, but, as yet. the theater has Herr Adolf and Now, however, it right by henchmen. that this i rectified Already one play.

"Birthright." is to be seen at the 49th Street Theater. And four or five others are. in the manner of the theater, in the offing, awaiting the reception to be ten dered "Birthright." The history oi Hitler in the theater began with the ill-fated "Kul-tur," a satirical thrust which had as its denouement the saving oi sician. This play. Broadway gossip has it.

lost whatever chance oi success it may have had through the stubborness of its producer, an operatic impresario new to the theater. He huffed and he puffed and he hemmed and he hawed until there was nothing left but an unpalatable hash which was not to the critics' nor the public's liking. As a result, the sheep-like theatrical managers have since been very wary of the Hitler play. While Knopf published "The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror," Houghton-Mifflin, Hitler's own autobiography. "Mein Kampf," and William Morrow, "Germany Puts the Clock the theatrical produrers have steered clear of the Hitler though it ere mea.s.es 10 The edians include Billv McLarin, Sandy Burns, Sam Weston.

Billy Lee, Chick Hunter, Tom Wilson, George Reynolds and Ray Parsons. Two continuous shows are given daily from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m., with the usual evening performance at 8:30 p.m. Norwegian Film The Fifth Avenue Playhouse' is presenting the first Norwegian dialogue picture to be shown in New York City. The production is a screen development from Bjorn-stjerne Bjornson's widely known story "En Glad Outt," or "A Happy Boy." IN THE program of "The School for Husbands" at the Empire Theater he il Michael Bartlett.

In Italy, where tie sang for several years in grand opera, he is Eduardo Bartelli. And in real life he is Edward Bartlett of Oxford, the town which gave Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross, to the The Michael is no more of his own doing than the Eduardo Bartelli. In Italy opera managements insist upon Latinizing the names of an opera singers. Nauaroo merely Italian for Edward and Bartelli the closest Italian approach to Bartlett. But the Michael had its beginning even before that.

When 1 Bartlett was a student at Hotch-lcifs and later at Princeton, where he sang in four Triangle Club shows and made a name for him self his fellow clubbed him When he returned from Italy and was offered a lucrative motion picture contract he unsheathed his fountain pen and signed: "Edward Bartlett." "But your friends all call you said the movie magnate. "That's just a nickname." said Bartlett. "My real name is Ed- "I like 'Mike' said the magnate. And Mike it was in its more dignified form Michael. It Is typical of Theater Guild casting that when that organization should produce ibs first musical play it should go to the ranks of opera houses he deemed try those lie (mired 0 1 DeFeo Frent Company.

hen that the their net for him and he became Michael Bartlett. an identity he has maintained ever since. He appeared in "Through the Years," which was the screen version of Jane Cowl's former starring vehicle "R.iiUinB Through." Instead of returning to grand opera, he turned to the' stage and appeared in a leading role in "The New Moon." Later he appeared toria work. It was during this encasement that he came to the attention of Jerome Kern, the composer, and when Georges Metaxa retired irom the Kern op eretta "The Cat and the Fiddle, Bartlett was called upon to jump only a few days' notice and hearsal. He was an immediate on the arm oi nis cnarming wue.

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These WM Z'Z Vv vl il l-mru '7 "HHitv io, 1 UKCOoLtK Whin Lawrence Langner, who vtfu mn mW I mm it oh i Flight' may be seen also mWWMtXl i i a nrww nr At Century Houses "Night Flight," featuring Helen Hayes. Clark Gable and John and Lionet Barrymore, and "Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men," are the dual attractions at trie century Circuit's Patio Theater, In Flatbush, during the first half of the week. Beginning Wednesday, "Wild Boys of the Road" and "Beauty for Sale" will be shown at the Patio. At the Kingsway Theater Constance Bennett, in "After Tonight," heads the current program, which will be succeeded on Wednesday by "Ace of Aces" and "Headline Shooter." "The Blond Bombshell," starring Jean Harlow, may be seen at the Avalon Theater from today to Tuesday. The Avalon's attractions during the last half of the week will be "Captured" and "Stage Mother." At the Albemarle Theater the current features are "Penthouse" and "Broadway to Hollywood." These PAULMUNi Wednesday by "Aggie Appleby, directed "The School for Hus-1 of fmW Mk Mfr at the Millwood Theater where It II mmT ono I IN DAKKIMUKC AMUSEMENTS MANHATTAN bands." came to casting the role of bo-v es JK ibbbbbI lhe i being shown currently in eon- IVftVidi I ST f) AFAW" Cohere play he TouctL Vch i LI "w'Y" I Mf I A rp22nd Week realized tht role ca led for an Maibaum.s -Birthright." directed Wk wu5 Mward CX' "rsT Wednesday lo 1 V.f chicag? opera" Company 'S'lTaa Mano irrr.or an actor In his love scenes with Now the mo-les are alter him justice close on these enemies oi Twsday Bull" and "The Del- AfflHV JOAN CRAWFORD CLARK OARLF TODAY Matin AIDA -huie Walker bu he sings most of again.

But his embitions are op- IfcHP public peace. uge" are the major attractions. On -LAKI OABLt -he 17-h century French eratie. This time he does not want (1 A Wednsday and Thursday "Broad- DANCING LADY wih franchot TONI TONirHT TOSP A melodies which make up the im- I to appear as Eduardo Bartelli but Row I' 1 1 111 Held Over way to Hollywood" and "Charlie Ll I union o.tv luft provised score of a play that was as Michael Bartlett. for he ha- mW 4 isv nt tw in 77 thP Chan's Greatest Case" will be the jstsLrz 1 A srKra5at lli tm, i 'i aW k- 1J21 THURSDAY, 2:30.

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