Homo Sapiens Bows to Women in 'The Warrior's Husband"
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Homo Sapiens Bows to Women in 'The Warrior's Husband" The Week on the Stage By Joseph X Shipley_ GREEK MKKTS AMAZON "THE WARRIOR'S HUSBAND." A comedy by Julian Thompson. At the Morosco. The...
...Tristan und Isolde" on Thursday evening...
...In the merest details—"Call me Herk" falls low) is set in effective scenes and costumes by Woodman Thompson...
...Fleischer, Bourskaya, Bwarth-out, Besuner and Patoo and Messrs Thin, Baalola, Tedeseo, Bada, Lodikar, Anderson, D'nAgelo, Oehanovaky, Gan...
...In the United States, a greater self-consciousness, and the spread of the motion picture, have made the marionette a form sought by those trained artistically, for its possibilities as an art form...
...Picture a society where women hunt and kill and have the open power (not through closet-Intrigue, and bedroom and table domination, as in our less favored lands...
...Hold us as it does during the performance, "Trick For Trick" as afterthought reveals great flaws...
...Bellessa conducting...
...Other operas of the twenty-second week will be: "Andrea Chenler" will have Its first performance this season on Wednesday evenings with Mates...
...Pons and M Olgli...
...When Greek meets Amazon there's a tug of war...
...Homo Sapiens Bows to Women in 'The Warrior's Husband" The Week on the Stage By Joseph X Shipley_ GREEK MKKTS AMAZON "THE WARRIOR'S HUSBAND...
...Tarsan the Ape Man** At the Capitol Theatre "Tarzan, The Ape Man"—based on the thilling story of jungle adventure by Edgar Rice Burroughs, will be the feature film attraction at the Capitol Theatre for the week beginning today...
...Travlata" on Friday evening...
...And during the second seance, one of the magicians Is murdered—by mistake, for the other...
...Fully effeminate, with a sweet j curly beard such as we see on the j Syrian stones, his is no pansied panoply, no aping of another sex ! but a natural disposition to be petted and coddled and Indulged, bred through generations of warrior women and kept men...
...Seeing the last of these, we were at once struck with the fact that this, if not all, of Shakespeare's comedies, suits the marionette better than the stage, for our times...
...the audience Is growing and growing steadily— for almost everyone who Is taken to a puppet show enjoys It: let the good work go on...
...MAGIC AND MYSTERY "TRICK FOR TRICK...
...While honors of acting and delicate humor go to Romney Brent the whole society in which he lives is delightfully portrayed, In a novel conception, with Greek mythology providing a background for side-slants at our day...
...Gig 11, DeLuca, Ludlkar, Bada, Wind-helm, Oohanovsky, Ploco Oabor, Ma-latest* and Ananlan, Mr...
...Indeed, this "Trick For Trick...
...these the puppets can make much more real than living players...
...At the Sam H Harris.' It's an eerie play...
...The possibilities of puppet plays are manifest...
...To Mr...
...The fierce Amazonian women, more deadly than the male, know of no world where men fight and rule, until the rumors of Greece atray into their walled city, on the breath of the ninth labor of Hercules, which was to fetch the girdle of Hlppolyta, ruler of the Amazon host...
...while the real criminal Is not Introduced until the last act, after all the plausible paths of guilt are being explored...
...now, the older with a pledge of $10,000 for any trick he can't prove a fake, the younger In nightly communication with a dead "control" —In the toils of a murder mystery...
...Theirs is a tumultuous courtship, which Katharine Hepburn makes doubly attractive—she's a rare personality...
...By Vivian Crosby...
...Alda," the Saturday matinee...
...That they can get away with the evening, in spite of the failure to make this clear, shows how closely the play carries its audience along with its story, making the older events forgotten in the excitement of the new...
...Shirley Warde and Harry Waastaff Gribble...
...Rlgotetto" as a special matinee on Friday with Mme...
...Firsi "Andrea Chenier" At the Metropolitan "Sadko" will open the last week but two of the Metropolitan Opera Season next Monday evening with Mines...
...As a popular form of entertainment, puppet show is perhaps the most long-lived of all amusements...
...Rethberg, Bourskaya aad Deloaty and Messrs...
...Had the voiced Interpretation equalled the puppet presentation, this would have been one of the most valid productions of the play, in any form, that we have seen...
...and Remo Bufano's adaptation of Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream...
...The New School has been showing effective puppet-plays for adults, not the usual Christmas jiggling for children, but a swift satire, "Stringing Broadway," by the Tatterman Puppeteers, a puppetlzation of Stephens' "Crock O' Gold" by Meyer Levin...
...The Amazons (who used to cut off one breast, to permit good shooting of their bows—the authorities tell us— (though of course the fair heroines of the play do not exemplify the practice) are invaded by the Greeks, after Theseus, the brains of the Herculean exploits, has failed to gain the girdle by guile.' Hercules is...
...Cribble, who staged the play, must be given credit for weaving his over—tricky ma"The Gay Caballero" At the Roxy Theatre 'The Gay Caballero" with George O'Brien, Conchlta Montenegro and Victor McLaglen, comes to the Roxy screen beginning today...
...Opening with a seance, it spins two magicians —former master and pupil...
...All of the fun (which not more than once or twice...
...his mother's politics) makes the first husband In the Amazon land...
...for in the final anxiety to clear up this mystery, the authors forget to explain how the girl who "committed suicide," with whose death the play starts, was really murdered...
...The unwanted fiancee Is left dangling at the end, no more essential than the red herring dragged in to hide the scent...
...where men are adorned and wooed—and you can-j not fancy half the fun there Is in watching Romney Brent, the young lord Sapiens, whom fortune (plus...
...Serafln conducting...
...terial into an engrossing play...
...it thrives today throughout Europe, and the Soviet government has several hundred traveling companies, using the form to convey Incidental education through the fun...
...dolfl and Altgku, Mr...
...Various swift vicissitudes come upon the hosts, and we watch with special Inter-eat the developing feminity of An-tiope, the sister of the Queen, in the hands of Theseus...
...STRINGING SHAKESPEARE The New School is doing most commendable work, these days, In giving aid and encouragement to the marionette movement in this country...
...The real criminal, I say, meaning the man who murdered the magician...
...and Colin Keith-Johnson matches her fire...
...The mischief of Puck, the delicacy and grotes-querie of the fairies, the comic boorlshness of Bottom and his troupe, playing—louts as they are —the romantic "Pyramids and Thisbo...
...but the war is only incidental, and the tug becomes a hug . .. and a huge piece of merriment...
...we discover, a coward whose reputation Is being built, almost to the extent of a racket, by the clever Theseus and a smart war reporter named Homer, who pays more attention to a good story than to its truth...
Vol. 13 • March 1932 • No. 13
