JOHN BARRYMORE EPIC

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 224, 20 April 1933, Page 8

JOHN BARRYMORE EPIC

Lavish Settlings Used in “The Mad Genius” OUTSTANDING FILM AT KINGS Elaborate and picturesque backgrounds are seen in John Barrymore’s latest Warner Bros.’ production, “The Mad Genius,” now showing at the King’s Theatre. Early sequences of tire story show the star us master of a travelling marionette show. For this part of the story the Club Titerero, Hollywood’s principal puppet shop, worked night and day for two mouths, building figures and apparatus for the few brief scenes in Avhich the puppets actually appear. Later incidents in the story take place against the elaborate background of European theatres in rehearsals and performances of the Russian Imperial Ballet where the half-mad impresario Tsarakov works out his demoniac devices. Three complete ballets were trained by Adolph Bohn. for these sequences. Although the dances and dancers appear only as atmosphere background for the story, three great theatre interiors were constructed for these scenes.