The Archive · 1939

Potential Additions

What cold have! been more pertinent, for example, than a programme labeled "The Death Scene: Silent and With Sound?" A researcher worth half his salt could have swooped upon his files and emerged with a programme so bathed in laughter and in tears that Billy Rose would have begged to book it into his colossal penny arcade. It occurred, naturally, through the close proximity of "Wuthering Heights" and "Dark Victory," in which first Merle Oberon, then Bette Davis expired in dramatic triumph, leaving the gentlewoman in the audience to erase their mascara smudges as best they might. These, of course, were admirable demises, performed with and restraint—although Miss o did look positively frightful or a moment. But what of the whose grave-paths led but to Without half trying, one can see [Sarah Bernhardt as "Elizabeth the JESSFIELD NIGHT CLUB.—Boder, Stern, Dutch and Feder.

IMMY'S.—American style meals at all "hours.

BAR-—Cabaret The Glam-Three Kings of Rhythm and Don Dolly.

VENTAIL.—Cabaret.

Floorshow. Neumann's orchestra.

MASKEE.—Night club. wet and Ignatie Sellers, Jones. mons Bur ub

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