"THREE MUSKETEERS."

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 16

"THREE MUSKETEERS."

Douglas Dumbrille has been signed by 20th Century-Fox to play a featured role in the supporting cast of "The Three Musketeers," a comedy version of the famous Dumas, story. The Ritz Brothers and Don Ameche head the cast which includes Binnie Barnes, Amanda Duff, John ©arradine, Joseph Schildkraut, Lionel Atwill, John King, and Gloria Stuart.

Oliver H. P. Garrett, in his play, "Waltz in Goose Step," recently played in New York, introduces an atmosphere of Nazism. His characters include revolutionaries, betrayed idealists, perverts, intriguers, adventurers, job-seekers, sadists, the poor stricken Jew, the capitalist, 'the outraged militarist, the enraged Christian, the contemptuous, and a fair sample of "the startling melange of parvenu mentalities flung into jewels and evening dress and lobster parties by the coming of the 'outs' into power"—as Ira Wolfert describes it. Leo Chalzel played the lead, and represented him as aji unbalanced man, with a habit of shouting speeches at individuals, x leaning on advisers whom he must continually mistrust. Henry Oscar played the chief adviser—a mixture of many Nazi chieftains, according to Mr. Wolfert. The play had many melodramatic incidents: it begins in a warplane after the famous Nazi purge of 1934: the pilot is a Nazi idealist, and the plot concerns the intrigues and desperate schemes of men losing favour.

Flora Eobson gave a sterling performance of the.utter futility of hatred in the St. Martin's production of the first play presented by the Basil DeanJ. B. Priestley management, "Last Train South." Though she had no more to do than a few lines in the first and second acts, the talented British actress gave a "qgry fine performance, establishing anew her reputation as a great emotional actress. In the last act she lifted the play to heights of dramatic power in her accu-, sation against the daughter of a White General—of crimes committed against the proletariat in general and her husband in particular. The scene of the drama is Russia: The White General, his sister, and his daughter are fleeing from the Red Terror. They" are held prisoner in the station waitingroom by the Red son of the stationmaster, obsessed with the belief that the White General was responsible for the brutal flogging of his brother-in-law. This despite the fact that the officer is almost pastoral in his quietness. May Agate, sister of James Agate, noted London critic, played the sister; and Greta Gynt played the daughter.