The Newsreels--A New and Potent Force in Journalism
The Newsreels--A New and Potent Force in Journalism New Leader Series THEATRE AS A SOCIAL FORCE THE THEATRE SPEAKS in Katharine Cornell To "introduce" Katharine Cornell to the readers of...
...Francis Carter Wr>od, Jr., is the general manager of the Embassy Newsreel Theatre of New York, and the Newsreel Theatre of Newark, N. J., as well as tress urer of the Newsreel Theatres, Inc...
...Third of series win e held Friday...
...The actors are working peopl who have contributed their set vices...
...own problems without too much weeping about the inroads of the screen and the radio...
...One sees news from all over the world...
...In this manner patrons of the newsreel theatre feel that they have met all the famous personalities...
...Theatre A provocative play, daring in its treatment of the problem of religion and its relation to our modern civilization, will unfold for Broadway audiences on Tuesday evening, Sept...
...The Newsreel Theatre thus b°comes an educational force where one absorbs impressions...
...A new newsreel history of World Events ,is being formed...
...Especially new that the impaign is on and a (rest mams indertaklngs are being planned...
...Wort nen"s Cirri* branches and aowr fts¦•rnal bodies will JUft with the Soialist Party In a unified i lassjalrn n •iect Herman V'oskow to the fmmUy Lower «th V. d...
...Labor Theatre in Brooklyr...
...In the past five years a radical change has taken place in newsreels...
...Otters Doable Bill An organization calling itself the Labor Theater of Brooklyn is representing a couple of plays at the Brooklyn Little Theatre ,one oi which is called "Take Our Stand,' by Miss Elizabeth England...
...Of practical value it is evident what it means to the player who is known in Dallas, Texas...
...One comprehends the feelings of the Russians, the Japanese, the Germans, and perhaps most of all at this time, the Ethiopians...
...Its theme if universal, its problem embraces all mankind...
...ig is being completed which will enble us to reach every enrolled Socialist iroughout the city...
...Miss Cornell | thinks that the appearance of other means of entertainment being inevitable in the course of progress, the difficulty in the theatre has been the same as happens in any other field where new inventions have occurred to broaden and to increase the activity in any particular section of art or commerce...
...17th, when "Few Are- Ch: sen," by N. Lawlor, opens at the 58th Street Theatre (formerly the John Golden...
...Elissa Landi in "Without Re gret" at Brooklyn Strand— Also "Manhattan Moon" Another double feature program is being presented at the Brooklyr Strand Theatre this week...
...I know the invaluable experience I gained from this with 'Romeo and Juliet,' for each of these audiences taught me something about Juliet - and about Shakespeare...
...Pierson plays one of the romantic leads opposite Tamara, while Frank Parker, the famous radio tenor essays the other lead...
...Enrolled Socialist Mainag While we go to press, the large eaaft...
...Iloro Park Branch meets (very Maoay evening at Born Park Labor yceum, 42nd St...
...The de of great quantities of lltenrtaTt, nclodlng The New t after, has proves ery lucrative to the branch Meeting of the branch Tuesday, Sept 7, at 6618 Bay Parkway...
...Bore Park.—Series of eight street, orner meetings...
...The twr features are "Without Regret,' with Elissa Landi, ,Paul Cavanagh Kent Taylor and Frances Drake and "Manhattan Moon," a music studded romance, with Ricard' Cortez, Dorothy Page, Henry Mol lison, Henry Armetta and Lou: Alberni...
...Jalna," an RKO Radio Picture having its Brooklyn premiere at he Albee, is said to be a brilliant contribution from the literary world to the theatre...
...The radio from its nature has had a wider range, but it has adopted much of the stage technique...
...The local Socialist are sponsoring, an attractive and in itructive educational program at th...
...They feel they actually know the Prince of Wales, Ramsay MacDonald, President Roosevelt and others too innumerable to mention here...
...T. B. F. CALIFORNIA Los Angelw.—The local Socialists ar planning a picnic and get-together as •tart of the 1936 campaign, to be hrl< at (ilen Oaks Park in (.lendalc...
...Miss Cornell's tour of the country already has had its immediate effect, for the success of her pioneering has induced other players and producers to venture on the road...
...The Tompkin: County local has gone over the top ir > raising its quota in the United Soialist Drive...
...and Bay Parkway, Brooklyn...
...candidate for Alderman, Sunday venlng, Oct...
...The entire pro auction of "Few Are Chosen" ha been under {he supervision of Gregory Deane...
...San Francisco...
...r 7th a. d...
...Beat...
...They reach their importance chiefly when they are freest of our form of drama...
...headquarters, 1057 Steiner St...
...I am convinced that what the Stage must do is to Took into itself ami meet its...
...Sept...
...You must vote at the artary election on Tuesday, Sept...
...and Ave...
...One of the evils that has grown up is the centralizing of the speaking stage in New York City...
...Sept...
...Seat...
...The newsreels become more important each week, each time an event takes place...
...At the end of the tour my performance was almost another interpretation, for the constant critical function of playgoers of all sorts had had its effect on my acting...
...Her words are spoken to Ray Henderson, long thoroughly familiar with her career and her theatrical ideals, in an exclusive interview for The New Leader...
...It was natural that both these discoveries should be looked upon as intruders and then as rivals by the stage, but as time goes on it is more and more apparent that this estimate is not the important one...
...When he smiles benignly at the King while watching the army maneuvers it leaves one with a very definite impression...
...Dissimilar Audiences Needed "The sophisticated or so-called sophisticated drama that has been "prevalent in New York in recent years finds the road unresponsive...
...Few Are Chosen" to Open Sept...
...Wsj iarlin, August Claessens, A. V Wets, •erg, Meyer Levinstein, Molly Weaioet, Varon Leveustein...
...Organisations are rejested not to arrange confflcting dates...
...It is a truism to state that the most ^provincial person is the metropolitanite who never has ventured beyond the city blocks of his own immediate life...
...The fact that the road, which has been and always, will he the backbone of the theatre, has almost been abandoned, is one of the tragic events of the past fifteen years...
...On the stage is a new gala show, headed by Billy Hill, Mrs...
...17, it US &»t 172nd St...
...oonx...
...en_—»*ea_-iu<*ting tut-sd...
...Seen...
...After listening to Mussolini address a huge throng in Rome one feels that they have an insight into his character...
...Just compare the newsreel of a few years back with.that of today...
...at traomijm Prospect Aves...
...While W. French Gitkens is president and organizer of the Newsreel Theatres Corporation...
...Sept...
...I grant I am generalizing and that everything I have said may be met with evidence to the contrary, but I can only speak in broad terms of broad conditions...
...Sothern and Marlowe, who quit the theatre with the largest fortune ever made in the theatre alone, had their enormously successful metropolitan seasons because they limited them and by their prestige drew the Broadway public to see Shakespeare when Broadway little cared about great plays...
...With the advent of sound, the scope and appeal of the news was vastly increased and a new force arose in the field of journalism...
...Friday...
...Billy Hill, Tommy (Cecil) Mack and other variety artists in person...
...Two Forms Necessary The automobile, which has provided people with easier transportation as well as another means of entertainment, has had a direct effect on theatre-going, but the actress sees in this, as was evident during her recent tour of the country, another means of bringing people from distant places to the theatre...
...It is international in character...
...SJe p. - t 13th Ave...
...Producers sooner or later will realize that by selling their product to the films and to the radio before they have exhausted the possibilities of the theatre itself throughout the country, they have not only lost important revenue, hot they have stunted and seriously threatened the life of the stage itself...
...Though primarily a religion play, "Few Are Chosen" holds nt brief for any particular brand o' religion, nor is it a treatise on any one religious sect...
...The play itself, a one-acter dealing with a strike in a southern mill, is one of the best propaganda plays we have ever seen...
...67th St...
...The lines are true to life, the situations highly plans able, and the acting is splendid...
...This medium of news by sound and motion picture is most impressive in regard to personalities and character studies...
...Behind this educational newsreel theatre are three young men, ages twenty-six, thirty-four and twenty-nine...
...at s:3u 6'clock, at 39 Elsmere Place, Bronx, at win* a :umber of Bronx local unions...
...the first lady of the theatre" has her crowding audiences ready throughout the land...
...KINGS Important to Bran ekes and PrieaO...
...Bensonharat.—Our open air meeting* re very successful, Ike' speakers Mag reeled with great folhmlasm by audi ticrs of from five Is sine hundred...
...The Theatre Must DeCentralize "This is a transitional period in the American theatre," is the opinion of Katharine Cornell...
...Her faith in the public outside New York, off Broadway, a public to whom she has first shown some of her noblest work, has reawakened the road, and set many sterling players to recognize this wider, eager audience...
...Robert Dona t in "Too 39 Stops" at Roxy Theatre The Roxy Theatre this week offers as its feature film "The 39 Steps," new GB melodramatic romance, starring Robert Donat and featuring Madeleine Carroll...
...But one does feel that the speaking stage has before it its most critical and its most abundant opportunity now...
...s:»» p. at...
...Provincial New Yorkers "New York audiences are composed to a large extent of visitors from other parts of-the country...
...only it is important that since the field for the spoken drama has been limited so closely to New York and a few other large cities, it has incited so many playwrights to devote themselves to this kind of treatment to the exclusion of others...
...Goose aad the Gander" at Strand Theatre "The Goose and the Gander," Kay Francis's latest First National starring picture, is at the New Strand Theatre...
...This is in itself nothing against this class of play...
...Much has been said and written about the effect of the silent and the talking picture and of the j radio on the stage...
...The Newsreels--A New and Potent Force in Journalism New Leader Series THEATRE AS A SOCIAL FORCE THE THEATRE SPEAKS in Katharine Cornell To "introduce" Katharine Cornell to the readers of this paper would be an impertinence...
...PARTY NOTES New York City CAMPAIGN RALLIES Friday...
...formerly managing editor of Pathe News, ex-managing editor of Trans-Lux ¦Theatres, formerly on the staff of Fox Movietone News and before that having been connected with the American Embassy in Spain after graduation from Columbia University in 1927...
...The fact is, the theatre and its people cannot do without Broadway nor without the road: they act as correctives...
...Wednesday apatt'et 180th St...
...George Brent appears with Miss Francis as her . — _ Arthur Pierson in Musical Arthur Pierson, stage and screen star, has just completed a featured role in the new William Rowland musical picture, 'Sweet Surrender,' shortly to be released nationally byUniversal Pictures Corporation...
...The group hopes to stay at th< Little Theater for three weeks am then go around to the neighbor hoods of Brooklyn and Long Islanc for one-night stands...
...riranizationn...
...Tompkins County...
...and Daly Ave, ;t_| "I . Amalgamated Branch.—Aa ojaaoosnt branch meeting Monday...
...This » the that >r branches to follow up the work by Isiting as many voters as poaslhh , •rimary Day Is Tuesday, Seat 17 Remember...
...For one thing, plsywrights now think too much in terms of Broadway, or of one public alone, and the result of this is • too apparent to need much comment...
...Delegates to the Osawal Committee will report...
...Harold E. Wondsel is vice-president of the Newsreel Theatres and editor of Pathe News, perhaps the most aggressive newsreel of all...
...Current Events of Day ia Sight aad Sound Always Seen aa Embassy Scree...
...also a i insane*, results of Joint campaign ri lojs Plans are being made for an InteaW* and extensive campaign...
...Rounding out the three-hour stage and screen program are "Mickey's Kangaroo" and the Roxy Newsreel Review...
...Miss Cornell makes a clarion call for a true perspective of the wide social role of the theatre...
...In add Hon to sports and other amusement 'here will be brief talks by George R Kirkpatrick and others...
...BRONX A conference will be held a* Tuesday veiling...
...They work at ordinary job during the day, and rehearse in the evening...
...It is impossible for anyone to predict the trend of any art...
...A year ago, when we toured 17,000 miles and acted from one corner of the country to...
...One may seek and find various causes for the present state of Uhe drama iri this country, but chiefly I believe the speaking stage not yet has adjusted itself to the changing conditions of the twentieth century, or at least the changes induced .by the first quarter of the century, by which is indicated the motion picture, the radio and the advancement in modes of transportation...
...Neither the film nor the radio has ! yet felt its stride nor assumed its proper place, nor has the stage been able overnight to adjust itself to the new problems that have arisen...
...and fc~>th St Speaker: heodore Shapiro...
...A story of the humar conflict that exists in a convent this drama is written from firsthand information The cast, with one exception Coburn Goodwin, is composed entirely of women...
...A testimonial dinarill be given in honor of Alexander ahn...
...The actors and the playwrights both need in the growth of their art the most dissimilar and extensive audiences possible...
...There is an audience, and a vast one, for good plays and good acting, both in town and on tour, and for the health of the stage it is vital that neither audience be ignored...
...Primary Day.—The voting hours In ext Tuesday's primary outside New .'ork (iity are from 12 noon to 9 p. m. '.very party member who is an eu oiled voter is urged to vote, therebj Turing the nomination of bona flde ociaiista In everv instance "Jalna" ia Brooklyn tew at Albee—'Redheads aa Parade' Aba aa Screen This week the RKO ALBEE offers a twin bill of diversified screen entertainment with "Jalna* filmdom's version of Mate de la Roche's prize-winning novel, and "Redheads on Parade," a musical iambcree with John Boles and Dixie Lee, as the combined attractions...
...Courageously written and well cast the play has a number of well-known Broadway players, including Ara Gerald, who was last seen in "Revenge With Music": Alma Kruger, whose portrayal of the Prioress in Eva LeGallienne's production of "The Cradle Song' won her critical acclaim...
...The Saturday cele•ration wilt be held in the evening at eadquarters, and the Sunday crlebraion at the picnic grounds...
...in Tacoma, Washington...
...Having recognized that these two mediums can do certain things far better than the theatre, the point then is to increase the advantages 0f the stage which can not be usurped by either...
...17th at 58th St...
...asm*" Assembly Hall...
...NEW YORK United Socialist Drive.—State Serre tary Merrill, who has Just ret urn e» rom a vacation in New Hampshire, de clares that the failure of New Yori State to raise its quota in the I'nitei socialist Drive has seriously affect ex organizing work, and has again ap pealed to the membership to suppor the Drive...
...but when these various elements meet in New York, we have still another kind of audience...
...United Socialist Drive The United Socialist Drive »:'m* Tilling with greater chances of sateen, ow that the summer period hi SB 11 branch officers are strongly vrxnj ¦ see that their branch quotas art dsed as quickly as possible, ft n eedless to point out that the National, late and City Offices are greatly hi eed of funds...
...Edwin Booth used to say that only by the profits of his tours could he afford to act Shakespeare in New York City...
...The pictures have imitated the'stage too closely...
...and 14th Asm...
...Always the road has been more favorable to classic drama than bts been New York...
...21st...
...C, Manhattan...
...6th St...
...port Chester.—The Finnish Branch it to celebrate its 19th anniversary Satur lay and Sunday...
...Mary Hone, Norma Downey and Alney Alba...
...Where formerly one saw Baby Parades, Horse Races and Battleships, one now sees actual historical records such as the League of Nations meeting at Geneva, a peace meeting at Oxford University^jrad an actual confession of a murderer in the District Attorney's office...
...Joseph T. Shipley...
...Ink, 'oni 3 to IS p. m. Every effort should e exerted by branches to Sttmtmrtt ich primary voting...
...And a group of intelligent young men are definitely taking their place in this new field of journalism...
...the other, we discovered the untold advantage to ourselves of appearing before audiences of such contrasting nature...
...The actual assassination of King Alexander is now preserved for posterity...
...opeaeariaasoai Monday, Sept...
...I:m ¦. as...
...There is no reason why these forms of entertainment-should not be beneficial to the stage just as the stage has proven to be of inestimable value to them by furnishing them so much material and a ready-made audience...
...axils Epstein, Julia PrlmoU, fiSS laessens...
...It, too, is mo.-.t effective when it depends on itself and when it more and more employs its own intrinsic qualities in its programs...
...xnrls P. Goldberg, Fred Shutaia...
...Mandelaon...
...in Savannah, Georgia...
Vol. 18 • September 1935 • No. 37
