Rare January 1935 the Stage with Ina Claire Ode to Liberty by E

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RARE The Stage January 1935 with Ina Claire drawn by E. FEATURES on the World Entertainment Capital: New York by Noel Coward and Gladys Calthrop with photos of Noel Coward with Gladys Calthrop, Benita Hume in “Symphony in Two Flats,” photo of Barry Fitzgerald, Monica Montez at El Chico; Jeanne Aubert; Chas B. Cochran, Merle Oberon, Sybil Thorndike, Antoinette Cellier; Edith Evans; Elisabeth Bergner, Alina De Silva; Ladi Roberts at Boeuf Sur Le Toit; Michael Chekhov, Edmund Gwenn; Renee Gadd; Ruth Sorel Abramovitch dancing; Geo Groke dancing; Follies Bergere; These American Plays Are They American? By Thomas Craven;
Revenge With Music by George Clisbee with sketches of Libby Holman, Ilka Chase, Georges Metaxa, Rodsiat Ortega, Chas Winninger; Town Crier: Alexander Woollcott on the Air by Ruth Woodbury Sedgwick; More Melody Please! By George Antheil; Parts I’d Like to Play Willie Hamlet with 3 photos of Victor Moore; “Valley Forge” A Condensation of Maxwell Anderson’s Stirring Play with R. L. Lambdin sketches; “The Children’s Hour,” I Cannot Sing the New Songs by Franklin P. Adams with Alajalov sketch; Cornell’s Juliet by Wm McDernott with 3 scenes; ASIDES SECTION on 2 ½ columns on Lillian Hellman’ “The Children’s Hour,” “Fools Rush In” and Peter Arno withdrawing; Libby Holman famous; Leonard Sillman success in “New Faces” now working on “Fools Rush in,”
“Thumbs Up” by Eddie Dowling with 10 scenes and featuring chorus, entire cast, Ray Dooley, Barnett Parker, Rose King, Jack Cole, Alice Dudley, Hal Leroy, Pickens Sisters, Bobby Clark, Eunice Healy, Eddie Dowling; On the Beat and Off by Thomas Chalmers items on Puccini, Ravel, John Charles Thomas, Flo Easton, Jascha Heifetz, Walt Damrosch and more;  Out Damned Spots by Katharine Best; Why I Took the Air by McAlister Coleman; Josephine Baker with photo of Baker with leopard;
FULL PAGE PHOTOS of inside front cover Victor Moore in “Anything Goes,” Beatrice Lillie by Valente; Alexander Woollcott; Katherine Cornell’s hands playing piano; Florence McGee, Katherine Emery and Anne Revere; Lynn Fontanne, Al Lunt, Osgood Perkins by Valente; Peggy Bacon sketch of Herb Bayard; Leslie Howard inside back cover creased)
THE SHOW IS ON CURRENT PLAYS IN NY on “Dark Victory” Tallulah Bankhead knows how to act, with Bankhead scene; “Gold Eagle Guy” strong on character, weak on plot, with scene featuring J. Edward Bromberg who dominates; “L’Aiglon” the production is exactly right by Eva Le Gallienne is; “Ode to Liberty”…cheek lightheartedness which only Ina Claire can accomplish; “Post Road”…Lucille Watson acted in the vein of honest, candid hokum with Watson photo; “The Children’s Hour” …Lillian Helman Hass written a magnificently effective and stimulating play…Anne Revere, Katherine Emery gallant and plausible; “Valley Forge” with photo of Phil Merivale in costume; “Sailors of Cattaro” stirring acted with Tom Powers scene; scenes with Helen Gahagan, Melvyn Douglas in “Mother Lode,” Walt Connolly, Ernest  Truex in “Gather Ye Rosebuds,” Peggy Wood in “Birthday,” Ray Bolger and “Dixie Dunbar in “Life Begins at 8:40,” Russ Gleason and Mary Mason in “The Sky’s the Limit,” Flo Robinson in “Personal Appearances,” Peggy Shannon in “Page Miss glory,” Constance Cummings in “Accent on Love,” Vivien Fay in “The Great Waltz; Jacqueline Logan in “Merrily We Roll Along,”  Lillian Emerson, Bob Hope, Linda Watkins in “Say When,”
PHOTOS of Hollywood Restaurant Floor Show; 3 of Ina Claire in “Ode to Liberty,” “Gold Eagle Guy” scene; Anna Leskaya; 3 scenes from “Alma Mater” with Heide Vosseller, Chas Laskey, Wm Dollar, Gisella Caccialanza, Chas Laskey; Margaret Sullivan;  Claudette Colbert;  Josephine Hutchinson; Al Jolson; 2 from “Calling All Stars” with chorus. Phil Baker, Patricia Bowman, Mitzi Mayfair; 6 photos of floor shows at Hollywood, Paradise,
FULL PAGE ADS for back cover color illus. Arts and Decoration Magazine (creased); Yvonne Printemps for Lux Toilet Soap;
CARTOON by M. Reed;
ADS for illus. NYK Line; Bonwit Teller; Eva & Raul Reyes in “Caprice Room with photo; illus. The Gotham; St. Moritz; El Chico;
CONDITION: COMPLETE 66 pages filled with early stage, theatre production, industry history, actors, actresses, playwrights, etc. . From bound volume therefore no back cover, bare spine, restapled, some lower margin edge tears, trimmed cover, creased back cover. Nice condition inside.