RARE May 1936 Stage magazine w/ Lynn Fontanne cover

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RARE The Stage May 1936 with cover of Lynn Fontanne. FEATURES on
Seen in the Dark by Katharine Best on “”A Small Town Girl” with Janet Gaynor, Rob Taylor in rather engaging fakery; “Amateur Gentleman” with
Doug Fairbanks, Jr. debonair and dashing; “Message to Garcia” delectable Wallace Beery performance, John Boles fits perfectly; “The Great Ziegfeld” glittering celluloid tribute, an orgy of nostalgia…Wm Powell gives Ziegfeld all the stature…Luise Ranier as Anna Held is sharp and delightful…Frank Morgan Superb; “Mr. Deeds goes to Town” by Frank Capra…ingeniously entertaining…starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur; “Things to Come” by H. G. Wells…enthralling screen treatise with Ray Massey, Ralph Richardson; Stage Awards the Palms on “Victoria Regina” incredible grosses; Will Cotton color sketch of Katharine Cornell, Alla Nazimova, Helen Hayes, Guthrie McClintic, Maxwell Anderson, Jo Mielzner, Katherine Cornell takes first place in acting…a great player playing great roles…simply incomparable…Lunt and Fontanne next…then Helen Hayes…followed by Pauline Lord, Ruth Gordon, Raymond Massey, then Alla Nazimova I Ibsen’s “Ghosts” where she created an important moment in acting; others include Burgess Meredith, Ian Claire, Osgood Perkins, Jane Cowl, Morris Carnovsky, Adrianne Allan, Jerome Cowan, Joyce Arling, Directing Guthrie McClintic stood supreme…Rouben Mamoulian “porgy and Bess” most spectacular single virtuoso job of directing, “Victoria Regina” production practically flawless by Gilbert Miller; Robert Sinclair deserves a toast for “Pride and Prejudice,” also mentioned Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Alexander Dean credit for transforming a flop in to a hit; with “Russet Mantle,” cheers for newcomers Halsted Welles, Bretasingne Windust; Playwriting awards to Maxwell Anderson at the top, then Robert Sherwood for “Idiot’s Delight” and Sid Kingsley; Geroerge Kaufman and Katharine Dayton, Owen Donald Davis carved a great play from the Frome Legend; Helen Jerome e with “Pride and Prejudice,” Designing with Jo Mielziner’s great accomplishments; followed by Rex Whistler, Norman Bel Geddes, Vincente Minnelli, Albert Johnson, Stewart Cheney, Irene Sharaff’s costumes; Beasts in the Woods by Lawrence Stallings with photo of tanks; The Lunts by Robert Sherwood with 2 Birnbaum sketches; Idiot’s Delight with large scene; Scenes You Never See by Richard Lockridge; Theatre’s Lost Frontiers by John Anderson on forgotten playhouses; Madame Cluck: Prima Donna by Helen Thompson with John Grong rooster sketch; Pistols and Coffee; Eight Hour Days by Gene Lockhart; Fresh Faces on beauty products used by Bette Davis, Peggy Conklin, Loretta Young, Helen Chandler, Katharine Cornell, Joan Crawford, Martha Sleeper, Chrystal Herne; Bib and Tucker Column; There’s A Boat Leaving Soon; Music on the Map by Marcia Davenport on Madame Flagstad, Leopold Stokowski, Yehudi Menuhin, Toscanini; Directory of Summer Schools by State;
THE CURTAIN WENT UP items on Monty Wooley debut ably assisting Luella Gear in “On Your Toes”…steeping by Ray Bolger, Tamara Geva
…Luella Gear’s comedy satisfying; “Case of Clyde Griffiths with Alexander Kirkland’s finely conceived characterization…Luther Adler contributed a superb bit’ “Murder in the Cathedral”…Harry Irvine’s acting the season’s best; Victoria Regina” with 7 scene; featuring Helen Trenholme, Helen Hayes, Vincent Price, Cherry Hardy;
FULL PAGE PHOTOS of Ray Massey; page with 5 scenes from “On Your toes” with Ray Bolger, Doris Caeson, Tamara Geva, Demetrios Vilan; 2 page photo scene from “Tristan Und Isolde,”
PHOTOS of monster organ Radio City Music Hall played by Richard Leibert; Chas Coburn in “The County Chairman,” 15 pair of legs , Guess whose they Belong To; Moscow theatre Festival 1935 “Pickwick Papers,”
STAGE AWARDS the PALM for Pictures with Birnbaum sketches of Paul Muni, Chaplin, Robert Sherwood…Paul Muni finest dramatic performance of the year, followed by Charles Chaplin, the world’s greatest comedian,  with the most amusing portrait of the season in “Modern Times,”  Chas Laughton sound acting in “Mutiny on the Bounty,” Ron Colman in A” Tale of Two Cities,” Pat O’Brien, Warner Baxter, Robert Donat, DIRECTING: John Ford’s “The Prisoner of Shark Island: one of few directors who can tell a story we already know and keep us spellbound; Rene Clair brings charming detail in “the Ghost Goes West,” Frank Lloyd allows no quarter of economy in “Mutiny on the Bounty,” awed by its scope, Wm Wyler in “These Three” a fine, tragic photoplay memorable for tasteful humor, detail and photography; SCENARIO WRITING; Robert Sherwood wrote “The Ghost Goes West” script, the ultimate in wise and witty scenario writing;
“Mutiny on the Bounty” with 4 scenes starring Clark Gable, Charles Laughton;
STAGE AWARDS the PALM for MUSIC with Wah sketches of Arturo Toscanini, Lotte Lehmann, George Gershwin…major musical figure of the year Arturo Toscanini…departure from New York Philharmonic…also mentions of Otto Klemperer,Leopold Stokowski, Artur Radzinski, Eugene Ormandy, John Barbirolli; Richard Wagner, Kirsten Flagsted, Mr. Melchior at the Met; notable first appearances with Margaret Lawrence, Gertrud Wettergren, Suzanne Fisher, Josephine Antoine, Hilda Burke, Charlotte Symons, Rene Maison, nothing short of stunning Lawrence Tibbetts’s Wolfram and Ezio Pinza’s “Tannhauser,” George Gershwin and “Porgy and Bess” with the vitality to live; in Concert World…Marian Anderson, Artur Schnabel; sorely missed Lucrezia Bori that enchanting mistress of subtlest operatic technique and Alfred Wallenstein of the cello sections of 3 great American orchestras;
STAGE AWARDS the Palm for Radio with Berman sketch of Fred Allen. Allen only comic on radio with a persistent sense of time and tide; Andre Kostelanetz Chesterfield band with Lily Pons, Nino Martini, Jack Benny the suavest of comics and master of the ad-lib; then there’s Ozzie Nelson;
DINING and Dancing Section with mentions of Vine Lopez at Ambassador; Tommy Mills at Armando’s; Russ Morgan at Biltmore; Signor Callada at El Chico; Ernie Holtz at El Morocco; Benny Fields at Hollywood; Café Louis XIV in former space of Henri Carpentier’s former restaurant; Glen Gray at Rainbow Room; Bob Grant at Savoy Plaza; Marjorie Logan at Stork Club;
STAGE AWARDS the Palm to Supper Clubs by Scudder Middleton with Hirschfeld sketch of Sheila Barrett of the Rainbow Room and 2/3 page on Miss Barrett; also mentions of Tony and Renee De Marco, Russ Morgan, The Hartmans, Emil Coleman, Glen Gray, Gus Martel, Dwight Fiske, Charlie Wright,
SKETCHES. CARTOON by Alain; 3 Peggy Bacon; 2 Geo. Price; Edu; Mary Petty; Walwau;
FULL PAGE ADS: Bonwit Teller; historical boxing illus. Johnnie Walker;
Victor Library; Udall and Ballou Jewelry; illus. Elizabeth Arden; color Packard with color photos of homes of Mrs. Clifford Black, John Motley Morehead, Norman Rockwell; Bobri illus. Spud Cigarettes; Marian Shockley, Gracie Barrie, Jane Cooper, Regina Wallace, Evelyn Laye for Lux Toilet Soap; Hamburg-American Line; Darcy illus. Sous Le Vent Guerlain; Primrose House; Canadian Pacific Empress of Britain o to Europe with 2 photos; Italian Tourist Office; with AERIAL PHOTO OF VENICE;
ADS for Vassarette; German Railroad Information office; The Beresford and San Remo with photos; The Carlyle; the El Dorado;; Essex House; Allerton club Residences; Wallenstein Realty; The Dorset; 555 Park Avenue; Hotel St. Regis; Dimitri’s Club; Passy Restaurant; Eddy Duchin and The De Marcos at Plaza Persian Room; illus. Alpine Grill; illus. Joe Leblang’s Ticket Agency; Sherry Netherland; Orville Knapp at Waldorf-Astoria; Bushmills Whiskey; Frances Clyne Dressmaker; Panama Pacific Line with 3 ship photos; Grace Line; Austrian Tourist Office; Raymond-Whitcomb with 6 Europe scenes; Wm Gaxton for Charbert’s Eau De Cologne; Northern Pacific North Coast Limited with gal at dude ranch; Beverly Hotel; Morny; Marlboro; Norm McLeod illus. Dole; Kellogg’s Corn Flakes; Provincetown Theatre; Edward Sargent Brown Drama Clubhouse School of Playwriting; Pasadena Playhouse Midsummer Drama Festival; Frances Robinson-Duff; Mohawk Drama Festival; Hilda Spong Theatre School; Theodora Irvine Studio for the Theatre; Berkshire Playhouse;
CONDITION: COMPLETE 88 pages filled with early stage, theatre production, industry history, actors, actresses, playwrights, etc. . From bound volume therefore no back cover, bare spine, label on front cover. Nice condition inside.