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AS A PLAY "LIFE WITH FATHER" MADE LONG-RUN HISTORY
NOW AT LAST IT'S ON THE SCREEN AT THE
QUEEN'S * LEE
FATHER IS NOT FOND
OF HOUSE GUESTS
The Day household on Madi-this work hits a snug when it is
son Avenue in New York City discovered
that Dr. Bartlett's
in the Eighties, presided over balm la no good. by Clarence Day Sr. (Willian
Fine Acting
also
Powell, provides the, setting The flow of rich meident which for the memorable sereen ver unravels the Day problems pro- slon of Clarence Day's "Life vides a aim of rare
entertain- With Father."
ment, Besides the two stars, ex-
performances are Events In the Day home lake cellent form .when Mrs. Day (Irene turned in by Edmund Gwenn as the three Dunne)
Cousin invites
Corn the 17-year-old younger And
boys, Derek Scott, Mary (Elizabeth Taylor) for a Johnny Calkins and Martin Mil- ner. Others sorted out for men- Lion FEM the top-flight cast in. clude: Heather Wilde. Monte Blue and Clara Blandick.
(ZaSu Pitts)
few days visit.
Romance
Father delesis house guests and does not hide this fact from his
minister
Day
and
The screen play is by Donald family. Romance blossoms when Ogden Stewart, adapted from the young Clarence (Jimmy Lydon), Oscar Serlin stage production who is about to enter Yale, falis written by Howard Lindsay and in love with Mary. The matter Russel Crouse. Max Steiner
ย
of religion however casts n cloud responsible for the music. Michael
ver the match, and Father adds Curliz directed.
zest to the problem when he
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openly states that he himself has
never been baptised.
From then on this charming
Zasu Pitts of the sad, sad volce
and fluttery bands is an important
member of the cast of Clarence
plot is motivated by Mrs. Day's Day's "Life With Father." This
desire 10 get Father baptised comedienne, who garners laughs
quickly and suve his soul.
The comedy
趙 reaches
Just at the mere sight of her
new pathetic mannerisms, plays Cou-
climax when the young son con-sincora who comes to visit the tinues to woo Mary with marked Day family in their browns onc Victorian fervor. He sells patent mansion on Madison Avenue in medicine to get a new sult. ButlNew York.
dignity
Clarence Day Br. (William Powell) poses with tremendous and only alight, impatience while his wife Vinnis (Irana Dunne) displays her usuat affectionate attentivanass,
ALHAMBRA
Young love
springs up in the Day household when Clarence junior (Jimmy Lydon) ats eyes on pretty visitai
Mary (Elizabeth Taylor).
FAMILY HAS EVER
· CONTAINED DRAMA
Howard Lindsay and Russel; Lindsay picked up again. about 02% of the Crouse, who adapted the "Life "Now, with With Father" stories of Clar-population married-those over ence Day Jr. for the stage, 15, that is, it stands to reason were not a little surprised, as the biggest problem of the big- were many other people, when Best percentage, notwithstanding economics-and-the-international the play became the greatest situation, is the plain old domes- theatrical hit of all time.
tic problem."
"In the beginning," said Lind- Crouse adds, "So. It's no acci- kay, "we only neured the play dent that the three greatest hits for one short season on Broad. In theatrical history were fam- lly playsLife With Father,"
Way."
"But now," expanded Crouse, Tobacco. with the steady eight years' run Rose Road,' and 'Able's Irish
of the comedy to give him con
"But it goes further back than he xtresses. The family
And that
fidence, "we ern theorise. we say that the reason for the has been one of the great themes of dramatic history. Since time show's success lies in the Ameri-
immemorial the domestic situa- can family,"
tion has The two theatrical geniuses wright, putty for
and his brainchild." pointed out that, while the aver- Crouse observes, in support of
hithe
Cages
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oge American family is now
sons less than it his collaborator, that "Oedipus nearly two persons
of anti- was in the mauve decide when Rex," the greatest play
tragedy:
their masterpiece takes place,quity, was a domestic
Then over the centuries came there are still nearly 35,000,000 "Hamlet" and "Romeo and families in the country and el-Juliet."
A man named Strind- most 8,000,000 of them have at berg wrote a play called.
The least one child under 21,
Father" and another man named "And certainly," says Lindsay, Ibsen wrote & family tragedy *their foremo't consideration is called "Ghosts"
and a
Russian the family itself."
named Chekhov wrote a dour
"And consequently," says comedy about a dispossessed Crouse, "they flock to see family family called "The Cherry Or entertainment."
chard."
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