Cinema: Too Good To Be Drew?

You can tell a new generation is due in Hollywood when actresses who used to play kooky nymphets start portraying earnest newspaper reporters. That's what will...

THEATER: THUNDERCLAP: JANET MCTEER BRINGS NEW PASSION TO IBSEN'S CLASSIC

Great performances have been easier to find than great plays on Broadway this season. Michael Gambon, making his U.S. stage debut last fall, stormed impressively...

The Theater: Great Profilactor

John Barrymore lived all his brilliant, violent, much-married life in glass houses. No biography can hope to pull up any blinds; it can only poke under...

Radio: Barrymore for Barrymore

When John Barrymore lay ill of laryngitis last week, Dick Mack, writer-producer of the Rudy Vallee show on which John is stooge extraordinary, called him up to...

The Theatre: Scotch Mist

Six months ago a ham show opened in Chicago. Last week it was still running there. It had become a civic institution. It had played to 150,000 people and grossed...

The Theater: Benedick Forever

He hadn't wanted to be an actor, particularly he hadn't wanted to be dubbed "Ethel's baby brother"; he had wanted to be an artist. His father taunted him: "Do...

Science: The New Pictures

Between Us Girls (Universal) is chiefly notable because it provides the rattletrap tumbril on which John Barrymore's 21-year-old daughter Diana is supposed to...

Theatre: Very, Very, VERY Tired

Couple of months ago, after 14 years' absence from the stage, John Barrymore, 57, four times married, took to the road in a play burlesquing his matrimonial...

Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 2, 1931

The Woman Between (R. K. O.-Radio) is an example of appalling incompetence. Its story is 1915 drama couched in the seedy terms of 1890 farce. Lily Damita, the...

Books: Eccentric's Eccentric

MINUTES OF THE LAST MEETING (277 pp.)—Gene Fowler—Viking ($3.75). Who was Sadakichi Hartmann? Even his cronies found him hard to define. To John Barrymore,...