AMUSEMENTS
AMUSEMENTS ¦ * «_ DRAMA ,| - «>*jr«. •«*-.» "What Is Life?" Points a Question john botvie's play raises the problem at the waiters of society THE more questionable operations of Mr. Chase,...
...Oarrlck Gaieties" will close at the Garrick Oct...
...A company is now engaged in Universal City, Cal., In filming Harriet Beecber Stowe's classic...
...Oscar Wilde, as in "The Importance of Being Earnest," when-he was not muddied with morality...
...Whether It be in Galsworthy's "Justice," a well-made play of the old type, or In Kaiser's "From Morn to Midnight," a most Ingenious drama of the new, the Implacable forces of society that surge about money, the need of It, the fever with which we spend it, the power It gives, the fierceness with which we clutch it, the hatred with which we attack those who would seize It, are vividly shown...
...Messrs...
...who baa turned producer...
...However, the first artificial being that leaves the electric retort makes common cause with 'the workers...
...The Lower Town, bathed in eternal artificial light, houses the wage slaves, garrisoned, regulated, forced down to an unbelievable lo# level* their identity established by numbers...
...DeGavirl* and Conati...
...Shaw's "Pygmalion" will be produced at the Garrick Theatre later in the season with several members of the permanent company ami .a few guest players...
...If It be not one with, the tragedy, the highest expression of the thoughtful mature mind, the serious play of tomorrow, wherein the conflicts inherent In life, in the existence of the one and the many—society and the individual—are boldly traced, wherever their urgings send us, and the noblest child of the drama Is bom...
...and there Is the fine young fellow to marry the girl...
...Buchners ""Death of Denton" and "Much Ado Abou* Nothing/* TThe Scarlet Letter...
...He seems to have used, - indeed, a bowle knife, or some other old-fashioned instrument for whittling out most of his lines, (or all the sweet, homelike truths are carved boldly forth, down to wlfie's advice to her child that a woman cannot have two careers, that of a profession (the opera, in this case) and that of a wife...
...Winthrop Ames announces...
...Alexander Koszegi, principal second violin...
...that Philip Barry's play...
...The Glasgow Orpheus Choir of fifty mixed voices will make their first appearance in America Monday night at Carnegie Hall...
...It is really a groping toward maturity, and Ink-bottle villains with white-wash he'roes may stalk in It: moral judgments and the final adjustment of happy endings may lurk...
...Escobar and Schalker...
...The, caat la bggdaa by Ana Forrest...
...From New York the company goea te Beaton, thence to: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Detroit: and from then on to its annual aeason at New Orkeas...
...This new picture, which was recently screened In Berlin, Is divided into two parts, the brains and the hands of society...
...larger quarter* at 14* East stth street, formerly Terrace Garden, which has been made over Into a theatre, with its seats and a workshop...
...The last scene sees the classes reconciled—"for the benefit of all, even for the people in the depths," as the programme* has it...
...The cast includes John E- Hazzard, Clara Bland Ick...
...Incidentally, such plays, void of apparent bias, made to seem Inevitable in the disaster that springs from the nature of society, are the truest Indictments taat could be drawn, much more flaal, when so shown by as artist, than the deliberate or unconscious distortions of an adolescent propagandist...
...at the Klaw Ta* iatre Monday night...
...formerly assistant dramatic editor of "The Times...
...Friday evening: JlCavalleria Rusll«***," with Mmes...
...Kathrya Ray, one of the principal Adornments in the second edition of '"A Night in Paris," will be seen in "Tomorrow win Com*- at thw<conclusion of her enga£?inent In the French revn...
...Shubert...
...Thousands of letters have beeh mailed to workers and progressive, institutions...
...JCatja...
...The present collection of piece*, pamphlets aad volumes catalogued total 1,007,097 separate .compositions...
...William Norris, J. M. Kerrigan...
...To Shakespeare, for Instance, tragedy always involve...
...and the intellectual temper of an age may be measured in terms of what it deems tragic...
...The term "problem play" is inclusive...
...The sterility of the business world makes its effects felt In Rice's "Adding Machine...
...It la called "a native opera with jazz...
...An American Tragedy" will begin a tryout tour at the Shubert Theatre, New Haven, pest week...
...Lovett...
...the violation of a social law, of loyalty to family, to king, to country, to god...
...The new artists who will be heard her* for the first time include: awrgperita Sylva, who will sing the "Carmen...
...But they are swiftly beaten Into submission by the chief engineer, wfio...
...loves that wife...
...Others in the cast tachl # William Rlcrmrdi, Walter Cannes H Helen* sHanott...
...that weuid make them pay no attfettoa...
...stories, of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Is merely further Indication of the mental and moral under-developmept of the...
...Miss Totten, It will be remembered...
...majority, whose emotions respond before their Intellects Inquire...
...Donald Mac Donald...
...Thp statement avers that war* it not tor thee* perennial, providentlaJly unsuccessful gtiempta, the Fascist...
...a two-art farce which will be played In conjunction with a one-act comedy "The Cradle Song/' by Sierra...
...and alnog with the scoundrelly husband is a daughter who fails to understand but loves him and, under his influence, almost goes astray...
...Walter Baldwin, Jr., Lester Vaial, Stewart Masten and Earle'Craddock...
...K. Blaney's spectacular melodrama, "will have its first showing at B. S. Moss's Broadway Theatre beginning Monday...
...Sweeping industrial impulses are pictured in such dramas as Hauptmann's "The Weavers," Toller's "Hlnkemann," and Kaiser's "The Machine Stormers...
...Carlo Peronl will direct...
...The dramatist records, he does not embrace,, them...
...Tafuro, fonati and Mongelll...
...It Is in no sense a small theatre, having a stage amply large enough to stage any drama...
...Antonio Paoll, Ethel Fox, Ada JSepf and Margaret Solley...
...Milt Gross announces that he has nearly completed the dramatisation of "Nlze Baby...
...judgments, of course, appear In the play...
...NEW ANTI-FASCIST LEAGUE IS PROGRESSING THE newly founded Anti-Fascisti League for the Freedom of Italy is extending Its activities all over the country...
...if "The Winged Messenger" will be the yfollewing attraction, opening at the r>8ronx prior to it he'Broadway showing...
...Among the organisations that have endorsed th* Anti-Fdcisti League for the Freedom of Italy are th* United Hebrew Trades, the Workmen's Circle knd many Socialist and Italian Mutual Benefit Societies...
...Allan Dines* has directed the production and W « be featured her* with Goners* i Tobin...
...Edyth Totten is the producer...
...with Mmes...
...8. Polio, organiser Vermilion County (Indiana) Central Labor Union, and other prominent labor leaders...
...The Sliver Cord," while "Juarez and Maximilian" will brea*k its run at the Guild Theatre with Copeau's production of "The Brothers Karamazo/T...
...Ethel Taylor...
...Every character is in the right...
...In the Upper Town lives the ruling class, amidst all the joys and comforts of its age...
...He makes his farewell appearance here, as he sails for an extended engagement in Spain the following week...
...lest sr...
...Most of their presentations will be modern, but the Habima will render them in classical Hebrew...
...Sylva and Paggi, and Messrs...
...there are, tnerefore, others who retort that, given the form, we may gradually grow toward the spirit it requires, just as-this country has been growing its way toward democracy (though it at times seems as-If we can't **-en tell the, right direction) these ' list hundred, and fifty yea ra.___——¦ A^any rate, there is Mr...
...The Good Fellow" marks the first appearance as a playwright of Herman J. Mankiewics...
...Boat Song," a musical fantasy by Leonard Leonard...
...William Conrad, contra-bassoon, and David GllcHsteih.'trunpet...
...The piece Is by Jael MeCnrroll, the California poet, and will hcv* Incidental music by Maori* Reubens...
...laboratory theatre move to larger quarters - The American Laboratory Theatre has' moved to...
...by Princess Troubetzkby, will aJap be Included tsj •Treat 'em rough" wm I open monday at the ki09 Richard Heraden will present Trsft •aha Rough...
...Finally the lower orders, led by a renegade from the upper region, revolt against the master class...
...They have been playing recently in Riga, Warsaw, Vienna and Paris...
...But some more favored adults are financially free from concern, or temperamentally less players than spectators of the human comedy: Xnatoie France, though he was not a dramatist, for his stay in the ivory...
...Over immature minds, the false picture may nave greater sway:" the Influence of Dickens...
...Across the Pacific," starring Monte Blue, adapted front Chan...
...The new stage la about twioe the sis* of the one on which the Laboratory'* plays were presented lent season., The second subscription seaeon, under the direction of Richard Bolrslavsky...
...Lbs Rencoutres...
...Shubert are about to offer, win have a young Swedish soprano, Nallee Lindholw...
...9 and go On tour under the management of Jack Vorke...
...wUi »la* the Waldateln Sonata ot Beethoven et his Aeolian Hall recital On October 13th...
...The league has received heartening replies from William Green, president Am*rlcan Federation of Labor...
...Thursday evening: "Faust," with abbes, des Rosiers and Schalker...
...Judged by the highest standards...
...And so the final curtain, after an evening that carried...
...Special ballet program...
...Ian Maclaren, John Roche, Dorothy Sands, Blanche Talmud and Paula Trueman...
...Chase, in John Bowie's play Tiist Life...
...Albert Marsh, oboe...
...a new satiric play from the Trench of Alfred Savolr...
...here next May...
...juarez arid maximilian" to inaugurate guild season oct...
...Tafuro, Interrante...
...What is important to observe in considering the maturity of such plays is not the skill or the novelty of their technique, but the absence of stated or implied moral standards...
...In which Marjorie Ra an is starring at the Henry Millar '. ,atre, suggest a speculation 'that has l .'oquently come to my mind: What v ould happen to such wasters, to Mich gambling spendthrifts and Supi prtere of loose women, if the spirit of Socialism were.to guide the land...
...Benno Moiselwltsch, the Russian pianist, will give a recital at Aeolian Hall Saturday afternoon, October 16th...
...Then it Is closely akin to...
...the Dancer," the near musical plgy which the Messrs...
...W. L. neighborhood season opens thursday with "lion tamer" The Neighborhood Playhouse, that Charming little theatre on Grand s'treet...
...Their activities call for the sld of much music...
...by Wilder...
...pj *es> , |A work new to New York by the ¦French composer, Jacques ibert, will I he played by the New York Symphony Orchestra at Its opening concert in Carnegie Hall, Friday evening, October 29...
...music Sylva as ' Carmen' Feature of Last Week at Century fflHE fourth and final week of the I San Carlo Opera lessen will beA gin Monday night at the Century o-aatre- Nine opera* will be presented, including * special midweek matinee on Thursday...
...The league has established contact with national, state and local Central Labor Councils, and it announces that it will soon reach the country through an English bulletin...
...The love tale Interwoven with the struggle draws towards the .Inevitable happy ending...
...will have the following cast...
...thought away pleasantly enough, as you may feel, on vagrant speculation...
...Ono...
...Insofar as they are likely to outlast their day, to be true "plays of tomorrow...
...music notes Baslie Kibalcbich, conductor of the Russian Symphonic Choir, will introduce an excerpt from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony at the Aeolian Hall recital October 17th to commemorate the centermtal of Beethoven's death...
...it is a auite de ballet called...
...old and still somewhat scientific school seem to think that emotions and tendencies are less physical in their maneuvers, and that the disuse of* a desire, the failure to exercise a wish, somehow results in the ultimate death of that desire or tendency.^VThere are some who will say tbere'sSio' use pondering, for Socialism will not come until the spirits of men have changed, and this problem will not arise...
...Only one or two of the oldest libraries of Europe have collections in excess of this number...
...The soloists include Boyd Steven, Albert Froggat, Agnes MacGregbr and William Smith...
...At this juncture the plot becomes conventional...
...Interrante...
...and emphatically' present, . behold the scarlet woman who fills wlfie's shoes while that unsuspecting dear Is abroad, and who comes out Just after wifie believes hejr husband's He (how heavily he ¦wore...
...The music is...
...Saroya aad Messrs...
...At Mrs...
...and along with the wife is a sister who loves a lawyer, and the lawyer who...
...The purpose of th* festival is to acquaint the professional musician, and the public in general, with' the wide collection ef music acquired by gift, purchase and by the copyright laws since the founding of the Republic ia 177...
...Followed by "I Pagliacci...
...He will sing ta "RigoIstte" and in "Otello...
...Social condemnation or approval, moral...
...It will open its doors Wednesday, October «. It is located on 48th street between Broadway and Eighth avenue...
...Wilfred Jkytell...
...Motnar in "The Goat Song," symbolizing the fundamental struggle of the Individual and the conventional,in "The Glass Slipper" portraying a single phase of that conflict In more realistic play...
...This J* the e*s*W Jpany which has been playing tat Cs >j c*g» for some Urn...
...The two-day festival will be an invitation affair...
...Bowie...
...The repertoire company includes Albert Carroll, Otto Hullelus, Marc Loebell, Lily Lubell...
...by Frank Harllng and the play is by Laurence Stalling*, co-author ot "What Price GlOry...
...Jeannett Adair...
...Eugene O'Neill has made several studies of modern temperaments in conflict...
...Saturday matinee: "Carmen,'* with khans...
...Maturity searches behind the ..epithet and' the judgment, to analyse, the forces that conflict...
...In the matter, of stage equipment It IS the last word in lighting and scenic appliances...
...Bonw Cramer...
...Schalker, Fox and solley...
...The presentation is being made after the permission of the Soviet government was obtained to bring the players here...
...A feature of the week, will be the re-apu e a r a n c * with the San Carlo for the first time in two years, of Vincente Bel...
...The adult that, because of temperament or economic stress, is a direct participant in life, will strive to analyse the forees that urge in society and in the individual, and will, if he be a dramatist, throw them in opposition upon the stage, in problem play or tragedy...
...Messrs...
...But for all that...
...Messrs...
...The seating capacity is 298, divided between an orchestra floor and a balcony...
...The out-of-town premiere will be held at the Poll Theatre...
...Jed Harris, who w4ll produce the play, is already engaged In gathering a cast to Interpret this epic of the Rock*ways...
...will oben carry In October with the presentation of The Straw «*V...
...would be forced to resort to foreign diplomatic entanglenients and war threats In order to keep th* public hiigy with soma ktad of bunk cohOHmptios...
...Ospfaday^evening: "Otello," with Wtaji Saroya and Schalker, and Maalrs...
...Wednesday: "Travlata...
...11 The Theatre Guild's permanent company will open their new season with "Juarez and Maximilian" a week from next Monday at the Guild Theatre...
...James H Maurer, president Pennsylvania Federation ot Labor...
...October 11th...
...Martin BrenSteln, bass...
...The week's repertoire follows: Monday: '"rosea," with Mme* lUman and Falco, Messrs...
...naturally they are not prominent upon the stage...
...The dramatists of the industrial era in every land draw their tragedy from the pressure of the forces of life, the mechanizing influences of a capitalist order, upon the impulses of the individual...
...Tefsjo, Interrante and Mongelll...
...The calmer psychologists of the...
...The play will open here at the Longacre Theatre October 11th: The Civic Repertory Theatre will lntr xluce "The Anniversary" by Tehckov...
...Tbo opening attraction will be "Secret Ca«ds,*Y* three-feet play by a professional writer who ¦ for personal reasons prefers . to remain unnamed...
...The vault is not to fee opened until 100 years from the date of its seating...
...edyth totten theatre will open october 6 The Edyth Totten Theatre Is the latest addition to New Tork's long list of playhouses...
...Hurok says...
...The most obviously mature plays, therefore, are tragedies...
...Twelfth Night" and "The Sea Womssfs Cloak...
...jeanne bagels in "ram" . at the bronx opera house V Jeanne Eagels will be seen again iw the role of Sadie Thompson, which jfcpens at the ¦ Bronx Opera House for fcne'week, starting Monday...
...And there Is the material that has supplied many a play, and once more does duty for Mr...
...The adult may accept the theory of free will In determining his own responsibility...
...In Its best manifestations the problem play moves Impartially to the close inevitably expressed in its opening conditions...
...The acting, the directing and the elaborate setting—they are all perfect...
...and spoils his hopes by blurting out that she is to bear issue of his Infamy...
...Ethel Barrymore will return to Broadway the coming season under the Frohman management, the star of Somerset Maugham's latest play, a sophisticated comedy, entitled "The Constant Wife...
...Washington, Sunday evening...
...Beam's" win be transferred from' the Guild to the Garrick Oct...
...they do not take sides...
...habima players of moscotf coming here m noverriber S. Hurok, who...
...Joyce emphasizes a more spiritual problem In "Exiles...
...Bam H. -gHarris Is presenting this return engagement...
...They are Saul Goodman, tympanist...
...George Torrenet, 1 k Char*** "Mess* May Hopkina •< lj Nedd* Sarrlgaa...
...broadway briefs "Deep River," Arthur Hopkins'* initial effort la -the musical field, will open at the Imperial Theatre Monday evening...
...Michael de* Stefano, violin...
...Albert . Taveralar and Jessie Graham...
...There is, of course, the claim, of the psycho-analysts that emotions and tendencies dammed in one direction, suppressed or repressed, or wttatever they wish to call them, will find a new channel as inevitably as dammed watef will rise to flood...
...in order to prevent a recurrence of the revolt, invents the artificial man to do his bidding and eliminate the slaves...
...Winifred Cenihan...
...Expression Is tic scenery and ritualistic music will be utilized, Mr...
...but they are tpose of the period pictured, not of the playwright...
...Messrs...
...He has written much verse and two novels...
...The hero dies not because the playwright wants virtue (or vice) to triumph, or because he thinks the audience may—indeed, we usually sympathize with the victim: but because ^ some d'omlnairt force in the life around the main figure inevitably moves him to that end...
...Paoll...
...Under his direction' and guidance they storm the Upper Town, amashing the central machine that regulated their whole Hfe...
...Manifestly, these persons move In the domain of high comedy...
...heretofore has confined his activities to the management of musicians, announces that he will enter the theatrical field this season, presenting the noted Moscow Theatre Group Habima, a dramatic greup Which now Is touring Europe...
...he will accept the doctrine of pre-determlnlsm for that of others...
...Other plays to be staged this season Include "The Trumpet Shart ;«ound...
...In due time "Pygmalion" will alternate at the Garrick with Sidney Howard's new play...
...Ballester aad Mongelll...
...wtuhmgion to hold munc Th* Division of Music the Library ef Congress, la to bold * musical festival October 8-8 with two sisal a a* daily...
...fret, Vincente Ballester and Mongelll...
...There are various attitudes toward the world possible to the adult...
...none of them Includes the making or the imposing of moral judgments...
...baritone, who since has been a member of the Metropolitan and Chicago opera companies...
...Recent Importations from Hungary reveal both types of mature mind...
...j Thursday matinee: "Hansel and 'Sretel," With Mmes...
...and Lothar in "The 'Werewolf,* scintillating on the surface of life, with no concern for the terrors of Its deeps...
...Hugh S. Robertson Is the conductor of the choir...
...recent efforts to combine all the forces of civilization In one portrayal are kawspn's excellent "Processional" and Dos Passos' more dogmatic "The Moon Is a Gong...
...Is the founder and president of Drama Comedy, a theatre club which numbers a membership of over 5,608 men and women...
...conductor of "Countess Merits*" symphony orchestra, is the latest musical acquisition of the Messrs...
...Axman and Kopf...
...a new play by pisomsp and Fannie Hatton...
...class war depicted in new film BEFORE Is definitely disappears In the maw of the American film octopus the German film industry Is making its last bow to its old ideals with the fantastic, brilliantly executed tale of "Metropolis"—the city of machines...
...with Mme...
...The authors, John Bpolton and Clemence Randolph, Adaptf tfl the play from a story by W. Somerl&t Maugham...
...a romantic comedy by Mark Swan, is being produced by Anne Nichols, with Minor Watson in the leading role...
...This marks the fourth conSsecutlve year that Miss EafreIs has I played In "Rain...
...Richard Gresham" and "The Winged Victory...
...Hewdy King...
...Jkggi and Falco...
...pUnJst...
...One negative of the picture is to be sealed away in an alrproof vault at the Smithsonian Institution at Washington...
...Onofrel, Intesranta and Mon*eftt...
...who is a professor In English at the University of Chicago, was formerly editor of the "Dial" ami is now- editor of "The New Republic...
...But persons so swayed are moved—as Brutus and Anthony show in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar"—alternatively In- either direction, and by the ablest pleader...
...The group of fifty players will come to New York during November...
...with music by LaBiche, which was ached* nled for last season...
...Youth Betrayed," .a new drama,by Robert Morse Lorett, win be presented on Broadway in a fortnight by BscamiUo Fernande...
...The MischavElman String Quartet, at its first subscription concert on Tuesday evening, October 12th at Aeolian Hall, will offer a program of Haydn, Brahms and Tchaikowsky...
...The play opens In Baltimore next Monday...
...Tafuro, &iili and Cervi...
...Chase, blacker than life, with his Marjorie Rambeau wife more innocent of lire than one would fancy anybody today— much less an operatic sfilr—could be...
...uncle tom's cabin" to be filmed for posterity Film producers have begun making pictures to be viewed by posterity,'and posterity is to have "Uncle Tom's Cabin...
...Metropolis" belongs amongst the masterpieces that have been produced in Germany, and will leave a deep impression everywhere...
...Another attitude also possible to the mature le the complete avoidance of moral Issues, of social -problems...
...the good fellow" due at the playhouse tuesday At the Playhouse on Tuesday night Crosby Gaige will present "The Good Fellowi" a new satiric comedy by George S. Kaufman and Herman J. Mahktewicz...
...White Wings," which opens at the Booth Theatre Tuesday evening...
...And there are scenes in it which, despite the evident capitalist intentions of Its director, Herr Lang, are a powerful plea for the class struggle...
...who is a' great grandchild of Jenny Lind, the Swedish nightingale...
...From there the company gees, en its annual Coast-to-Coast tsar, returning...
...i Tuesday: "Rlgoletto," with Mme...
...will begin its thirteenth season next 'Thursday night with "The Lion Tamer...
...The Drama of America By Joseph T. Shipley VIII...
...the French aarce...
...High comedy and such comic opera as that of Gilbert and Sullivan, which pays attention to the forces of nature and society only to mock them, to turn them Into tlpsyturvy burlesque, are the lighter aspect of the mature mind that in more serious mood- turns to the problem play and the tragedy...
...Seven new mlslolans have joined the Philharmonic Orchestra for the season which opens at Carnegie Hall Thursday evening, October 14...
...Gladys Annan, Rose dea Hosiers...
...The Plays of Tomorrow Maturity of mind and-will are rare In life...
...The league has issued A statement on the last attempt sssihst the lite of Dictator Mussolini, in which it declares that Fascitl reaction is trying to exploit this third unsuccessful attempt of th* kind to first distract the attention of th# world's public opinion from the appalling economic and political conditions in which It has plunged Italy, and secondly te morally coerce foreign democratic governments to, refuse to refuge all Italians -who have been forced to fie* Italy and escape the wrath jf the black shirt tyranny...
Vol. 3 • October 1926 • No. 38
