HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE
Max Reinhardt's super-production of Shakespeare’s comedy, ‘ A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ is now at His Majesty’s Theatre, with one of the biggest and most talented oasts ever to appear in a single picture. Reinhardt, long' acknowledged to be Europe’s greatest stage producer, consented to present his spectacle in lihp form after it had met with tremendous success at the Hollywood Bowl and at San Francisco, it is said to be the ultimate in spectacular grandeur, while at the same time its comedy and romance are hilarious and as human as the mortal race. James Cagney heads the all-star cast, with Joe E. Brown, Hugh Herbert, Frank M'Hugh, Otis Harlan, Dewey Robinson, and Arthur Treacher playing with him as the artisan mummers who present,a play before tho Duke of Athens on tlie occasion of his wedding to the Queen of the Amazons. The leading romantic roles are played by Dick Powell, Jean Muir, Ross Alexander, and Olivia de Haviland, whoso mixedup Jove affairs lead to some strange pranks by the elf of mishief, Puck, portrayed by Mickey Rooney.
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Evening Star, Issue 22449, 21 September 1936, Page 2
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179HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE Evening Star, Issue 22449, 21 September 1936, Page 2
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