"A star of the silent screen comes to the New York stage in "Cherries Are Ripe" by John Emerson and Anita Loos."
"The increasingly fastidious first-nighters who ornament the beginning of each theatrical season in New York should have, this year, something to talk about in the stage appearance of the film players, Miss Vilma Banky and her husband, Mr. Rod la Rocque, in Cherries Are Ripe, a romantic play by Anita Loos and her husband, John Emerson. In this piece, the scene of which is laid in Hungary, Miss Banky plays a young wife and Mr. La Rocque the villian, her former lover who comes with a band of Gipsy singers from Budapest to cast that disturbing note into her home life without which no such play could achieve a third act. Miss Banky was best known to film audiences through her association with Ronald Colman in a long series of silent pictures. Mr. La Rocque, well-known upon the talking screen, had played opposite many stars."
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This article originally appeared in the November, 1930 issue of Vanity Fair.