AMUSEMENTS
Amusements The Week On Stage R-R-Revolutipn By Joseph T. Shipley 'I'HIB current production of the Reln* hardt season, "Danton's Tod," by Georg Bue-hner. brings to tbe audiences at the...
...Jean Schwartz is the composer and Eleanor Dunsmuir has contributed additional numbers...
...Rosley was in the New York company, Mr...
...the ends uncertain...
...Laubenthal, Whltohtn...
...plastic In its progression, to be attuned to the pace ef the larger action...
...Gigli, Ruffo, Ptnza, Paltrinieri...
...Rosa Ponselle...
...Epailly In the Chicago troupe...
...Serafln wtU conduct...
...Bodanzky conducting...
...i Mr...
...The members of Mr...
...who are glad of the opportunity to display to their sweet and none too critical companions that they, ye-?, they, can shine...
...Fleischer, Manski, Howard, Parisette, Falco, Wells and Bonettl and Messrs...
...Bouraskaya, Mario, Manski...
...The score is dedict*ted to Walter Damroscb...
...The uneducated mob, without wit and wisdom to moderate its course, without knowledge of where to go, rushes blindly on its own wild ways, or after the most specious pleader...
...the Uttle lady sings her song into the very ear of a dozen—well, half a dozen—ecstatic gentlemen, proud to have their ladles see them so selected, conscious that some merit of theirs, discernible to the dancer...
...Belasco's technical staff were immediately called to the studio and models of the production were shown Molnar, who expressed considerable surprise in learning that such preparations had already been mad* for his play, which is not scheduled for production until next season, when it win probably be known as "Mima...
...Chamlee rejoins the company as Turiddu...
...Belasco the final revised manuscript of "Tbe Red Mill...
...Be Yourself" Is the title of the story written for Denny by Harry o: Hoyt...
...The audiences at tbe Manhattan Opera House now, have the remarkable opportunity of seeing not only thoh* old noma towns, but theh* relatrres and Monde moving before thorn on the screen, as they were engaged in their every-day activities...
...It will be directed by William A. Belter...
...director of the Roxy j Theatre, and Brno Rapee, director of music of that organization, are congratulating each other this week on the completion of ten years of close association...
...Yet— although "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was acceptable In German, despite the loss of Shakespeare's poetry—"Danton's Tod", seems to cry for production in French...
...When they are not being swept on the emotions of the mob, Dan ton and his fated friends are hurried in their amusements,' haunted in their loves by the ever-ominous shadow of the wing of the tameless crowd...
...Rosley and Mr...
...Mayr and Tiboett...
...He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and has written one play, "Murray Hifi", which is now on tour...
...Or is it that one is embittered at never having been called to Join the exhibitors on the dance floor...
...Bob Milash, Ruth Dwyer and "Bobble'', the monkey...
...Monday matinee and Thursday nijdit,r"The Pirates of Pen;zance...
...Russia...
...such sweeping effects are attained at the sacrifice of speed in the gentler and less massive moments, when the playing must be almost sculpturesque...
...Walter Hampden's announced in tenI tion of giving a few special holiday performances of "Hamlet" this season will be put into effect eNw Year's week...
...Rapee foUowed Roxy through various changes of associa • tion and the end of a decade finds the two combining their forces In carrying out tbe musical activities of the "cathedral of the motion picture...
...most of the stage is, in fact, usually wholly dark, with spots of illumination, dim of bright, according to the needs of the mood...
...An effect of general foreboding, of a dark impending fate, is conveyed by these reaches of black through which tall pillars vaguely loom, and Crowds wander in unseen reaches of the night...
...Adrian Rosley and Jules EpalUy have been engaged for the new musical comedy, "Lovey Dovey," which opens at the Sam H. Harris Theatre on Thursday...
...It was Roxy himself, who, as director of one of Broadway's large motion picture theatres in 1917, recognized in the brilliant young pianist just arrived from Europe, a personality equipped with the unique and particular talents necessary for the presentation of good music to the masses...
...Lauri-Volpi and Scotti...
...the latter with Mmes...
...Gyles Isham and Reginald Barlow for important parts in their forthcoming production of Robert Emmet Sherwood's...
...Lloyd Whitlock...
...the Revolutionary Tribunal, where Denton, DesmouUns, and the remainder of...
...Margaret Love, Leon a Roberts, and Walter Tupper Jones...
...Yet uncertainty and uncontrolled ; emotion are sometimes rather to be chosen than smug ease over a volcano—or as a clod under a trampling foot...
...The famed Roxy Chorus win present a series of carols...
...Ludlkar, Mr...
...Leslie Howard, who Is featured in Winthrop Ames' production of John Galsworthy's "Escape" in the Booth Theatre, New Tork, had two ambitions as a boy...
...The play wiU be revived at Hampden's Theatre Wednesday afternoon January 4th and will be repeated that evening and on Thursday and Friday evenings...
...the second appearance of Mme...
...Reginald Denny win commence his next Universal picture the latter part of this week...
...He has engaged Frank Mclntyre, Lynn> Overman, Jcanette MacDonald, Btily B. Van and Carl Randall, who wiU be starred...
...Naturally, sincerity is less likely to hold sway than calculated appeal to the...
...According to Mr...
...the National Convention at winch Robespierre cements his power...
...Gioconda" on Thursday evening with Mmes...
...new comedy, "The Queen's Husband...
...everywhere, even in the lovers' boudoir, there is a sense of the crowd, of the Revolutionary mob aquest for something to drown its lust for excitement...
...Turandot" on Wednesday evening with Mmes...
...brings to tbe audiences at the Century an exhibition of the full resources—and limitations—of the large scale presentation...
...The ways of revolution are wild...
...29, with Edna Leedom and Guy Robertson in the featured roles...
...Marta" win be the "popular" Saturday night opera with Mmes...
...Tbe Love Nest" at the Comedy Theatre is the name of the play...
...what it all moves toward is less to be discerned...
...In a few moments the Dean of the American Theatre was Clasped in an affectionate embrace...
...As the opportunity to go on the stage preceded a chance to develop his Uterary talents, he chose the stage, but he has devoted much time to writing...
...Mary Nolan will play tbe leading feminine role...
...The most effective scenes are, therefore, those in which' the crowd surges to passion...
...The movement ends with a religious procession...
...Dan ton wins his momentary triumph when the crowd caus after him "We want not blood, but bread...
...The typical revue scarcely aUows time for applause before the next number...
...Clergy with ikons and banners, warriors and peasants come from the church and march ' in procession singing religious songs to j the accompaniment of church belis...
...of e motion by e group of American d**oondents of Jewtsh-Pohab stock...
...Der RosenkavaUer" Monday evening with Mmes...
...Chamlee and Danise, Mr...
...Seraftn wiU conduct...
...The street scene where a drunken "hanger-on of the theatre abuses his bawdy wife—until the crowd in mockery defends her, until the street throng Is swept by the arrival of Robespierre Into a fervor of revolutionary righteousness...
...and Dwight Deere Wiman announce that in addition to Roland Young and Katherine Alexander they have engaged Gladys Hansen...
...Thomas Ricketts win also play the part of an editor...
...The sensitive poet, the broad humanitarian, the crafty lawyers...
...Wakefield, Alcock and Ryan and Mr...
...Louise Homer as Laura in "Gioconda" on Thursday evening and a special matinee of "Tosca" on Friday afternoon with Mmes...
...Even the speeches, especially those of Robespierre, suffered somewhat from this inevitable shift of proportion—which did not, however, Interfere with the general movement and spirit of the piece...
...Homer and Wakefield and Messrs...
...An rrent of more then panting Interest, the preoantoW4 the-ll ¦PtPlI Opera House In Row Tork...
...any real enthusiasm on the part of the audience starts working after the following piece has begun, and checks it...
...It happens that Mr...
...every type of revolutionary figure shows the effect of its type upon the general movement...
...a song about a fairylike youth whose favorite sport was picking brass rings to get another ride on the merry-go-'round...
...wiU be performed the remainder of the week and win continue the regular bill Hassard Short announced that he has acquired the rights to the musical version of "A Kiss In the Taxi", and will produce it under the title "Sweet Daddy...
...Just and Robespierre apply the justice of armed force...
...and the fairylike brass ring dancer soon has five men—and two of them were not less than 250 avoirdupois—dancing a delicate fairy ring around the room...
...BeUezza conducting...
...so that one may turn from a spectacle to sip an H.e glass or pass an idle remark or twe, turn j back, and still behold the performance...
...Earl Lindsay is staging the dances, and Marcel Varnel the book...
...Jewish Water Carrier...
...Epallly are both Fiench by birth and that both were last seen to "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," although in separate companies...
...Also, the audience is part of the perI formance^ Every possible number reaches out and attempts to draw into the action, on the dance floor that is the temporary stage, as many as possible of the general crowd, of the bashful but otherwise willing men (seldom women...
...This play of the French Revolution is produced throughout in semi-darkness...
...In the first place, the pace is slower...
...So the balloons bob across to the diners, and back again...
...Neither do I. But the other evening a college classmate I had not seen in fifteen years gathered me along to chat about the world since we had last talked, while the offering of a night club made pleasant background...
...Belasco...
...Patsy Ruth Mfller plays the leading role with him and other members of tbe cast include Budd Mcintosh...
...The presentation is, while not so gloriously dreamland as the Shakespeare, nor so solemnly potent in Its summoning as the "Jedermann," perhaps most typical in its drawing upon the resources of the large theatre, most representative, therefore, of this phase of Relnhardt's work...
...The first was to become an actor and the second to be a writer...
...The limitations, it need hardly be said, are minor unavoidable accompaniments of the large surge and sweep of space and rhythm across the stage...
...Tobengrizr on Friday srsiUiig with Mmes...
...The picture was directed by William James Craft from a story written for Tryon by Harry O. Hoyt...
...Alda and Howard and Messrs GigU, DeLuca, MaiatesElisabeth Rethberg win appear as solo1st with the New York Symphony Or- I chestra at the concerts in Carnegie Hall Thursday afternoon, December 39 and in Mecca Auditorium Sunday afternoon, January 1. i Fritz Busch win open his program with the world premiers of the first movement from "Russian Bells," a symphony : by Arcady Dubensky, member of the New York Symphony Orchestra...
...Jerltza, Guilford, Flexer and Parisette and Messrs...
...The play itself, while its action indicates the hopelessness of the efforts of the milder ones in-revolution, is a panorama of the spirit of revolutionary days...
...Once started, once free for growth, that spirit knows no stopping...
...Other features of a busy week wUl include the first performance here of Mme...
...Over one hundred cities end towns were photographed among' them Pinsx, Brest-Lltevak and many other cfnes wish a large Jewish population...
...Stuckgold and Torre end Messrs...
...Such large scale production as makes possible the great crowd effects, with dimly seen tavern groups extended into far darkness, with a central platform surrounded by tier upon tier of excited listeners, who are not listeners, but participants, whose voices call not merely from unseen depths of the stage, but from aU over the large theatre, behind, amid, the audience...
...Simple shifts of scenery allow almost unbroken action, with swift changes from street to amorous chamber to convention hall...
...Monday night and Wednesday 1 matinee "Iolanthe...
...these are moments of convincing power...
...the first movement of his new symphony pictures a peaceful seen* in Russia marred by a battle between the Russians and Tartars, who invaded Rusi sia in the thirteenth and fourteenth ceni turies, conquering tbe land and ruling it for a hundred years...
...50 PoK* — Pictared In Fijfn...
...Every public rastlftition of interest from synagogues to orphanages, were picturized so that American audience* may actually see the places they have not seen in the years since their, departure from the old country...
...Outstanding in this particular show were two men who might have been playing burlesque...
...Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights and Saturday matinee, "The Mikado...
...the reappearance after her illness of Miss Nanette Guilford as Liu in "Turandet" Wednesday evening...
...Henry WalthaU has been engaged by the Universal Pictures Corporation to play the role of Editor Wicks in the Peter B. Kyne newspaper story titled "The Freedom of the Press," now being produced by George Melford tor Universal...
...Glenn Try on, the comedian of Universal pictures, comes to tbe Colony Theatre in his second comedy to be shown in New York titled "A Hero For A Night," beginning Saturday, December 24th...
...Even before greetings could be exchanged, Molnar drew an envelope from the capacious pocket of his great coat and handed to Mr...
...the already condemned prisoners make ^heir plots, sway the throng, until St...
...Jerltza and Messrs...
...Hampden's current success, Ibsen's "An Enemy of The People...
...On the way home, several elements of the entertainment came into my mind, two especially as differentiating it from the similar sort of entertainment that appears on the stage...
...On the stage, where the audience has paid for nothing but entertainment, the most for the money has to be packed in...
...they did a comically ungainly dance with two big balloons that tossed delicately for their gyrations...
...From the Pie tares of 5* Polish Cities Now at the Manhattan Opera Ho.se...
...Eve L» GaUlenne, Egon Brecher, Josephine Hutchinson, Charles McCarthy, Donald Ca Meron, Alma Kroger, Harry So them...
...BeschMiian, DAngelo and Gabor...
...An unobtrusive Uttle man entered the reception room of tbe Belasco offices and through an Interpreter asked the attendant If Florenc Molnar could see Mr...
...at the club, dining, dancing, chatting are equally important— not to mention, drinking...
...In Brief The following member...
...Winthrop Ames' Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company begins the last two weeks of its nearly two-year engagement in New York at the special holiday matinee, Monday, December 26, in the Roy ale Theater...
...Mr- Seraftn will conduct...
...He has written I two operas, one of which "The Romance of the Contrabass," founded a Tchekov story, was produced at the Moscow Imperial Opera in 1S16...
...Rapee, as conductor of one of the first large symphony orchestras on Broadway, proved an Invaluable aid in carrying out the ideals of public entertainment by Rothafel...
...Dubensky himself win conduct the performance...
...Is the reasen they were the chosen...
...The book and lyrics are by Clifford Grey and William Cary Duncan...
...but when the soldiers of Robespierre, indifferent to the yells of the crowd, seize Danton and the rest to carry them off tospre-oniained execution, the crowd is at once on the side of the victor...
...Jerttaa and Plexor and 'p-Angelo, Bada,^Seachi1tan, and "Picas...
...Among the perlormera in tbe Bernhardt company, although main credit must ge to the director and the groups he has massed, especially good work is done by Paul Hartmann as Danton, by Arnold Korff as St...
...Two of his suites ! have been performed by George Bsrrere's I Little Symphony Orchestra...
...The repertoire for the week of December 36 is...
...mob-lusts...
...In Movies S. L. Rothafel...
...Martinelli In a new French role...
...Gattl-Casazza's revival next Saturday afternoon of Meyerbeer's "Le Prophete" will be the chief feature of Christmas week at the Metropolitan Opera...
...Rethberg as Santuzza, Monday afternoon at a holiday matinee when Mr...
...Easton, Stuckgold...
...1 The next offering of the Actor-Managers, Inc., win be the phty made by Robert Emmet Sherwood from a short story by Ring Lardner...
...The final quiet ,the madness of Luetic on tbe street, the silent passing of the tumbril with its victims, the guillotine being alaansed after the sacrifice, and the mourning of DesmouUns' sweetheartwife' iTl the base of the bladed framework...
...these offer the hushed brooding of the world over its wrongs and sorrows...
...William A. Brady, Jr...
...Tosca" as a special matinee on Pride* with Mmes...
...Mayr, Tedesco, Scbutzendorf, Bada, Altgiass, Meader, Wolfe, Gustafson, Burgs taller, Mr...
...Bodanzky will conduct...
...and a young girl whose personality was quite attractive, who did an Imitation of Bert Williams, and who—as my friend painted out — was Intelligently building up a successful performance by utilising to the full every phase and aspect of unfortunately limited native gifts...
...Mile...
...The company begins its first transcontinental tour on January 9 in the Walnut street Theater, Philadelphia, and win not be seen in New York City until November 1828...
...GambareUl and the Roxy Ballet Corps wfll present a "Ballet of Toy.** Other features wUl be "Tbe Legend of Cinderella...
...MUSIC Mr...
...It wiU present Mr...
...in "CavaUeria Rusticana...
...Perhaps these are some of the reasons why one does not go so often to a night club...
...The repertoire> in detail is as follows: 1 "Haensel und Gretel" and "CavaUeria Rusticana" Monday afternoon, the former with Mmes...
...Rethberg, Flexer and Egener and Messrs...
...Lauri-Volpi, Basiola, Ludikar, Bada, Tedesco, Altgiass and Cehanovsky...
...Madge Bellamy in "Silk Legs" wiU be the principal picture offering at the' Roxy, 7th avenue and SOth street, the week beginning, Saturday, Dec 24th There win be a fun complement of, Christmas features, which will make the Roxy one of the most delightful places in town to spend Christmas Day...
...After Theatre Do you often go to a night club...
...of the Civic Repertory Company will take part in "The First Stone", by Walter Ferris, which win open at the Fourteenth Street Theatre January 10th...
...To those who never were in Poland, the pictures are a fascinating scene of penetrations Into the Uves of Jews in an environment so far removed from tbe amertoan scene...
...Just, by Hans Thimig as DesmouUns, and by LiU Darvas as the bereaved Lucile...
...Bodanzky conducting...
...Dubensky was I oorn in Viatic...
...Dubensky...
Vol. 5 • December 1927 • No. 1
