"Almost Married”

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7010, 21 November 1932, Page 3

"Almost Married”

AT FEILDING TIVOLI THEATRE . The greatest difficulty that the average stage actor has to face in Hollywood, according to Ralph Bellany, who •hares with Violet Heming and Alexander Kirkland the leading honours in “Almost Married,” the new Fox mystery thriller scheduled to open at the Feilding. Tivoli theatre on Monday next, is not so much the difference between stage and screen technique as the difference between the small town and the Broadway point of view. x>y far the greater proportion of screen audiences is made up of people who live in the country, in small cities and towns. The average Broadway actor

*n the other hand, is trained to appeal to an entirely different group—that small section of Now York City known as the "smart set” and when upon arriving in Hollywood, ho is told that the only one he must consider is the former he is greatly handicapped at the very start. One of the main differences between the two, Bellamy continues, is that New York is interested in the brilliant manner in which the thing is done, while the rest of tho country is interested in the thing itself. JNew York is interested in the wrapper, while the so-called "hinterland” is interested in the contents of the package, Bellamy, for whom stardom is predieted in the near future, is a graduate of both the New York and the inland stage Over a course of 11 years he has played in stock in 17 different cities, exclusive of the metropolis, inchiding Boston, Mass.; Dcs Moines,

Iowa; .Evanston, Illinois; Evansville, Indiana; Freeport, New York; Fort Wayne, Indiana; Jamestown, New York; Joplin, Missouri; Kansas City, Missouri; Madison, Wisconsin; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Nashville, Tennessee; Providence, Rhode Island; Rochester, New York; St. Joseph, Missouri, Terre Haute, Indiana; and Waterloo, Indiana, "Almost Married,” Bellamy believes, represents the type of story that most appeals to the vast non-metropolitan audience. Creepy and spine-tingling, the story of two humans caught in the inhuman toils of a mad musician, it is straight drama and entertainment from the beginning to the end. Revolving around the funning, spectacular attempts of a demented genius to wreak vengeance on two lovers, it develops into one of the weirdest and most eene situations that has ever appeared on the screen.