Theatres

Even Earl Carroll’s well-publicized beauties, shrouded in a murder mystery, were not able to stimulate the newly-born but not thriving theatrical season. As the first musical show of the year, “Murder at the Vanities” fails to provide that much-needed bright spot on Broadway.

The Provincetown Playhouse opened its fall season with “The Mountain”, by Carty Ranch. Neither the author nor the actors were able to turn out a passable evening’s entertainment.

“Kultur”, the first of the dramas about Germany under the Hitler regime, will open at the Mansfield Theatre tomorrow night. Charles D. Coburn heads the cast which includes Arlien Marshal, Lester Alden, Hans Hansen and others. J. J. Vincent is the producer and Adolf Philipp is staging the play which he adapted from the pen of Dr. Theodore Weachter….”Hold Your Horses”, Joe Cook’s much-heralded show of the gay nineties, will come to the newly decorated Winter Garden on Tuesday evening….”Double Door”, by Elizabeth McFadden, will be brought into the Ritz Theatre on Thursday by H. C. Potter and George Haight, who tried it out this summer at Southampton. It is said to be a story of the Wendel sisters back in 1909 and the cast includes Mary Morris, Aleta Freel and Granville Bates.

MOLLY PICON ON BROADWAY

Molly Picon will make her bow on the Broadway legitimate stage soon in “On the Wind”, a play by Clairborne Foster, which is being revised by Kenneth Webb. It is a comedy with music by Abe Ellstein and lyrics by Miss Picon. She will portray the role of a small town slavey…. Lilian Roth, who promised not to return to the stage after her marriage to Judge Shallek, is now taking one of the leading roles in the film version of “Take A Chance” which is being made by Paramount out on Long Island. Miss Roth has prevailed upon her husband to let her return to the films to make three pictures a year…. Eleven Jewish theatres will open on September 21. Three companies will be located on Second Avenue and the others spread around in Brooklyn and the Bronx.

Elmer Rice’s “Counsellor-at-Law” will be revived by Wee and Leventhal for another Broadway run soon. It has already had. three Broadway engagements under the author’s own management….

NOTES ON THE MOVIES

The premiere of “The Emperor Jones”, adapted from the play by Eugene O’Neill and with Paul Robeson in the title role, will take place on Tuesday evening at the Rivoli Theatre. Proceeds from the sale of reserved seats for the first performance will go to the Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital…. “Bureau of Missing Persons”, the current feature at the Strand Theatre, will be held over for a second week…. First National will release its latest Edward G. Robinson picture, “I Loved A Woman,” at the Hollywood Theatre on Wednesday…. “S.O.S. Iceberg”, Universal’s drama of the arctic will be shown at the Criterion Theatre on Friday.