RARE January 1936 Stage magazine w/ Helen Hayes color cover

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RARE The Stage January 1936 with cover of Helen Hayes. FEATURES on
Laugh, town, Laugh! By Ruth Woodbury Sedgwick 2 pages on “First Lady and “Boy Meets Girl” with “First Lady” scene with Jane Cowl, Lily Cahill; “Boy Meets Girl” scene with Joyce Arling, Jerome Cowan, Allyn Joslyn;
Playboys of the Western World by Stan Walker with Soglow elephant sketch…on Diamond Jim Brady, Guy Loomis, Sammy Feldman, Ted Baldwin, Harold Russell Ryder, Fred Perry, Young Leeds, Dan Topping, Phil Plant, Erskine Gwynne, Jack Dempsey, Mickey Walker, Max Baer, Steve Hannagan, George Vanderbilt, Duncan Fraser, Sherman Fairchild, Alfred Blumenthal; 2 pages on Preface to a Play to Come by George M. Cohan with photo of Cohan; Starvation Amidst Plenty by Archibald MacLeish;
Gooseflesh and Brandy by Burgess Meredith with scene from “Winterset” with Burgess Meredith, 2 pages on A New High in Low Comedy by Clifton Fadiman on “A Night at the Opera,” with 5 Wm Auerbach-Levy sketches of The Marx Brothers; The Nights of the Seven Stars by Irving Kolodin on Maurice Grau at the Met; 3 pages on “Victoria Regina” by Laurence Housman with color sketches:1877 Queen receiving Lord Beaconfield  (Disraeli) at Balmoral, 1840 Victoria watches husband shave, 1839 Queen asks cousin to marry her at Windsor, 1842 ladies-in-waiting watch attempted assassination of the Queen, 1897 Diamond Jubilee; Parts He’d Like to Play by Gene Lockhart on Josef von Sternberg; Costumes for Pride and Prejudice” by James Thurber with 6 sketches; What’s the Yangle by Leonard Hall; George White’s Twelfth “Scandals” with 6 scenes and photo of Willie and Eugene Howard, Bert Lahr, Cliff Edwards; Lay-dees’nd Gen-ul-men! By Don Marquis on Billie Rose‘s “Jumbo. ” Circus Maximus! with 3 photos of Billy rose’s “Jumbo” acts; Theatre Asides on Phil Merivale making 1st movie; 3 paragraphs on Rob Porterfield; 2 paragraphs on Howard Dietz’s success of “At Home Abroad,” Miss Moor’s life study class at American Academy of Dramatic Art; 3 paragraphs on “Jumbo” scintillating, stupendous, spectacular; The Broun of Avon with sketch; Hey-Days of Malevolence by Katherine Best with 6 caricatures by Hirschfeld items on “Barbary Coast” with Edward G. Robinson a mean hard nasty villain, and a joy to see; “The Farmer Takes a Wife” where Chas Bickford served the purpose of waking us up; “Public Hero Number One” fans clamored for more of Joseph Calleia’s sullen malevolence; “The Last Outpost” where Claude Rains, a charming creation of evil; Peter Lorre haunts the screen with lush and salubrious hatred; Wallace Beery in “China Seas” shook Jean Harlow and Clark Gable good and hard; Alan Baxter played a tight-lipped, cowardly, unprincipled gunman in “Mary Burns, Fugitive,” Chas Laughton shook the world to its humanitarian depths as Captain Blythe, the epitome of everything contemptuous; High Hopes in Harlem by Vincent McHugh with Alexander King sketches; Opera Quiz: match 20 Opera star photos with Arias excerpts; The Adventure of the Graveyard by Katharine Best with De Misky sketch; All Over the Lot Section items with Priscilla sketch; items on Billie Burke anecdote; Jess Lasky dinner; Ho Hum! On Stepin Fetchit with photo; Music on the Map by Marcia Davenport items on Stokowski, Kreisler, Mr. Klemperer, caricature of Martinelli; Elisabeth Rethberg; Madame Argentina; Congratulations by Patricia Collinge; Prime Ribs by Leonard Lyons items on Marc Lachmann, Nat Dorfman; Fresh Faces by Mary Hamman sections on Lily Pons, Eve Symington, Pert Kelton, Effie Shannon, Helen Chandler, Winona and Gomez, Kate Hepburn, Barbara Bates, Grace Moore; Backstage with the Stage hands by John Chapman; The Age of Specialization by Robert Sellmer; When I Write a Play by Frances Park and F. Harrison Dowd; “Monsignor’s Hour by Emmey Lavery with 10 pages and 8 Lyle Justis sketches;
THE SHOW IS ON brief descriptions and some cast for “Abide with Me” by Clare Booth Brokow beautiful acting by Cecilia Loftus, Maria Ouspenskaya; “Blind Alley” by James Warwick; “Boy Meets Girl” by Bella and Sam Spewack featuring Allyn Joslyn, Jerome Cowan; “The Children’s Hour” by Lillian Hellman with Flo McGee, Katherine Emery, Anne Revere; “Dead End” by Sid Kingsley with Ted Newton, Elspeth Eric, Billy Halop; “First Lady” by Geo Kaufman and Katharine Dayton, produced by Sam Harris starring Jane Cowl, Florenz Ames…Cowl making the most of it; “Let Freedom Ring” by Albert Bein produced by Theatre Union with Shepperd Strudwick, Nora Chambers, Will Geer; “Moon Over Mulberry Street: by Nicholas Cosentino with Valerie Bergere, Wm Edmunds; “Mulatto” by Langston Hughes, with Stuart Beebe; “Night of January 16” by Ayn Rand, produced by A. h. Woods, with Doris Nolan, Edmund Breese, Wm Bakewell; “One Good Year” by Stephen Gross and Lin Root with Gert Flynn, Hilda Spong, Ed Woods; “Paradise Lost” by Cliff Odets, produced by Group Theatre, with Morris Carnovsky, Stella Adler, Elia Kazan…high acting standard particularly by Carnovsky; “Parnell” by Elsie Schauffler with Margaret Rawlings, Effie Shannon, Geo Curzon;…Effie Shannon and Margaret Rawlings capture the acting honors; plus New Play of the Month page on  “Paradise Lost,” 5 of “The Petrified Forest” with Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Chas Grapewin, Bogart, Genevieve Tobin;
FULL PAGE of May Boley in uniform; Adrianne Allen by Alfredo Valente; Alexander King drawing of New York Audiences; Victor McLaglen; Alexander King High Hopes in Harlem sketch; Ethel Merman in “Anything Goes” by Goldberg; Margaret Rawlings photo by Gray-O-Reilly; Reginald Gardner and Mary Astor; color caricature of Fanny Brice by Burnbaum;
PHOTOS of “Paradise Lost” with Morris Carnovsky; “Libel” with Wilfred Lawson, Joan Marion, Ernest Lawford, Colin Clive; “Boy Meets Girl” featuring Joyce Arling, Allyn Joslyn, Messrs. McClelland, Jerome Cohan and Beal; Eva Le Gallienne; Shih Hsiung; Melvyn Douglas; Marie Brown; “Ghosts” with Ona Munson, Harry Ellerbe, Nazimova; “Parnell” with Margaret Rawlings, John Emery, Effie Shannon; “Remember the Day” cast with Frankie Thomas; “Circus Marriage,” “Blind Alley” with Roy Hargrave; “At Home Abroad” with Beatrice Lillie, Herb Williams; “Dead End” with Theodore Newton, Billy Halop, Elspeth Eric; “The King of Burlesque” with Warner Baxter; “A Tale of Two Cities” with Ron Colman and Isabel Jewell acting before director Jack Conaway in sound booth; “Rose Marie” with Nelson Eddy, Jeannette MacDonald; “The Great Ziegfeld” with Wm Powell, Virginia Bruce; “Anthony Adverse” rehearsal with Olivia de Havilland, 8 kids and director Mervyn Leroy; Balieff at St. Moritz; the Hartmans at St. Regis; Harriet Hoctor; “Captain Blood” scene; “Bring ‘em Back Alive” scene; Joyce Arling;
NEW PICTURES THIS MONTH on “A Christmas Carol” with Sir Seymour Hicks, Don Calthrop; brilliant performances; “I dream Too Much” Lily Pons cinema debut in agreeable comedy…Henry Fonda  genuinely impressive…
Eric Blore captivating; Gaumont‘s “Mister Hobo”…Geo Arliss lively performance; “A Night at the Opera” with Marx Bros. in jolliest ride of season; “Ah Wilderness” starring Lionel Barrymore , Wallace Beery, Eric Linden, Aline MacMahon…Barrymore snatches the honors…Eric Linden remarkably sympathetic performance; “Mary Burns, Fugitive” with Sylvia Sidney as tragic heroine and Melvyn Douglas, Alan Baxter…adds up to only 75%;  “So Red the Rose” directed by King Vidor promises to stand high among the best films of the year;  “The Bride Comes Home” offers Claudette Colbert to her adoring public…miss fires even with aid from Fred McMurray;
DINING and Dancing ‘Round the Town Section with mentions of Vince Lopez at Ambassador; Jim Miller at Armando’s; amusing and crowded Barney Gallant’s; Boy Foy at Biltmore; Dadone’s Cavier; Cotton Club; Dempsey’s; Consuelo Moreno at El Chico; Dimitri and Helen Virgil dance at El Gaucho; Johnny Perona’s El Morocco with Ernie Holtz; Harold Stern at Fifth Avenue Hotel, Nancy Garner at Larue, Val Olman at The Madison; Peggy Eunice at Mon Paris, Beatrice Lillie at Montmarte, Ray Noble at The Rainbow Room and many more;
SKETCHES/CARTOONS by Waluau; Alain; Alan Darren; Sherwinn;
FULL PAGE ADS: back cover color Camel with 3 Vivian Dixon photos;
Henri Bendel; Victor Library; Margaret Adams, Beryl Wallace, Eleanor Powell, June Knight, Benay Venuta, Vera Allen for Lux Toilet Soap; Hamburg-American Line with onboard photo;
ADS for Restaurant Larue; Hotel St. Regis King Cole Room with Emil Coleman, Eve Symington; illus. The Beverly; The Plaza with photos of Eddy Duchin, The De Marcos; Salon Azure; Sherry’s, Harold Stern at Fifth Avenue Hotel; Armando; Nikita Balieff at Continental Room; The Tuscany; Norman McLeod illus. Dole Pineapple Juice; Morny; illus. Tripler Gentleman’s Clothes; illus,. The Gotham; Slater Shoes; illus. Great White Fleet; Allerton Club Residences; Helen Chandler for Frank Brothers; Joe LeBlang’s Central Ticket Agency; Cusenier; Remington Rand Typewriter; Sante Fe Chief with World Famous Fred Harvey Dining Service;
CONDITION: COMPLETE 102 pages filled with early stage, theatre production, industry history, actors, actresses, playwrights, etc. . From bound volume therefore bare spine, possibly restapled. Nice condition inside.