NEWS AND COMMENT OF THE THEATRE
NEWS AND COMMENT OF THE THEATRE THE week on the Stage The Movies jhsh the week on the stage By Joseph T. Shipley BROKEN CUP ALLEGORY is perhaps the meet _.j dtfflcalt of literary,...
...In it Mary Nolan plays the role of "Cassie Cook," the most attractive and most tempestuous of the white girls in Msdam Polly Voo's Shanghai Teashop—a "Cassie" at last faced by a real love and afraid of It...
...James Murray plays "Badlands" McKinney, a white derelict stranded in the Orient, who meets "Cassie" and finds in her his ideal of what a "lady" should be...
...Last Saturday, November 2nd, the Embassy, located at Broadway and 46th street, in the heart of the theatrical district, changed its policy from long runs of feature motion pictures to a policy devoted exclusively to the showing of sound newsreels...
...Since this now famous boy violinist made his debut in New York, many offers of engagements have been rejected...
...CaUgari," Veidt is supported in th* that, Mary Phllbin who is also etas red, Leslie Fenton, Fred Hacks* Gustaf Partos, Sam DeGraseeJ Aiders Randolf...
...The Fortune Teller," Victo: Herbert's fssamm, and in som< ways, best comic opera, is the cur rent revival of the present delight tul series at Jolson's Theatre...
...These were so charmingly expressed, however, as to keep the audience ever alert for the next euphemism...
...Although its policy -will be the showing of newsreels, The Newsreel Theatre will also show, when occasion demands, outstanding semi-news and educational subjects...
...Throughout, and at a commentary in contrast, even tc the bitter moment when the silver tasaie, crumpled, is dashed tc the ground, are the older folk picking the crumbs of life in self• cantered earnestnees, yet by theii snore aged bodies proffering a chil reproof to youth's extravagani fervor...
...Although the memory of th present reviewer does not ex ten te*those days,.he ventures to stat that Tessa Kosta's arch presents SJnn of the triple role assigned th toe Una, lady was quite satisf actor even te her who bad it first...
...The delegation comprises the moet accomplished dancers, including Joan Sharp, the daughter of the founder, who will play the traditional pipe and tabor for several of the dances...
...This will be the Society's third performance of the season...
...Village Theatre, are presenting Una latest of O'Casey's dramas, giving a mixed* performance, with excellent work by Sean Dillon as Syi Heegan, and Margaret shiiinliail as Susie Monican...
...Of the twenty-two plays in the repertory,"Cradle Song," by Sierra, which was added to the repertory during the course of th first season, has been presented most frequently, having had to date one hundred thirty-two performances...
...also in Bach's Cantata No...
...Why Girls Leave Home3' at the Cort When should a girl leave home ? When should she cut loose from the apron strings of her mother...
...Warren William as the author...
...fresh, care-free, drinking from a sDver taasle, abundance of tasty hfe...
...Some day the voters will grow up (we hope...
...This season the Canadian Pacific Railway invited the English Folk-Dance Society to send a team of dancers to the British Music Festival, which is arranged for November 13-15 in Toronto at the Royal York Hotel...
...But this part of the paper is supposed to talk of the theatre...
...It was my immediate feeling that those who voted for Walker ought to be handed lemon sticks...
...Last PerUmsmm Held Over £hm So tremendous has heayif tendance at the Lita* agj Playhouse during the sheet...
...d| Nobody," a Chaplin revival 11 M." and the Universal aswaed...
...but he playwright has greater diffirulty in disposing of the years hat elapse between acts...
...Ricci Violin Recital Ruggiero Ricci will give his first New York recital at Carnegie Hall, on Friday evening, November 29th, at 8:80 p.m...
...In the first act, we see youth, llgetuus...
...IN ROPE'S END Provincetotcn Playhouse Recalls First Successes On the subway tonight I saw a burly man, over six feet and two hundred pounds, wearing a baby bonnet, sucking a baby's milk bottle, and shaking a baby's rattle— which called attention to the big sign he wore: "I voted for LaGuardia...
...Ruggiero is barely nine years of age and looks seven, yet he plays with remarkable musicianship, tone, fire, and technique...
...a Conrad Veidt gives a cobhSshI performance as the sinlsta aj gician who, finding his lost a his pretty assistant reJeeM ft that of a much younger sua, a vises a revenge that a tartaj and interest-holding la the a treme...
...The fifth guest is a very level-headed, love-story writer, the kind the girls fall hopelessly In love with—not upon first-sight, however...
...Among those who help fcarr elong, Richard Powell as Preset Sunt III bus to demonstrate the fund of fun which should mak Sjha a much desired figure o Broadway, when this Herbert sei lee comes to an end—if ever...
...Sharp, following the tatter's death in 1924...
...Is it her duty to repress her own ideas of how her life should be lived, and accept the point of view csfher parents, or should she live her own life, and achieve her own aspirations and snap those family ties with which Victorian tradition has bound together parent and child...
...The Last Performance...
...one group that has been grown up for a long time, that has been producing plays of maturity—with youthful freshness and vigor, is the Provtncetown Playhouse, now at the Garrick theatre...
...Walter Huston In a bit from "Desire Under the Elms...
...There are others whom you encounter whose cultural differences create nothing but static...
...Footlights and Fools" At The Strand Theatre "Footlights end Fools," starring frolicsome Colleen Moore in her most recent all-talking, singing and *»»"-<"ff production will begin Its New York premier at the Strand Theatre on Friday, November 8th...
...Her interpretations combined with an elemental spontaneity makes music actually visible to the eye, like a drama...
...bat these are swept into the* background by the love and the loyalty of the players and soldiers, starting to the front The next act has no connection with the story...
...Kennedy succeeded Mr...
...there is even greater difficulty when the allegory itself Snores, partly instead of a story, as in Joyce's TJlyasses," as in Sean...
...the Colony Theatre will present as its star attraction, Mary Nolan in her latest Universal All-talking film, "Shanghai Lady...
...A Popular Russian Artist First Newsreel Theatre tfpens For the first time in history, the newsreel is to have its own theatre...
...Mary Morris still in "Fashion...
...Announcement of this most recent innovation in New York's entertainment fare was made yesterday by officials of the Fox-Hearst Corporation, under whose auspices the new policy is being inaugurated...
...Hugh O'Connell, aa the unfortunate souse, gives a performance not easily forgotten...
...O'Casey's The Silver Tassssl" The Irish Players^ at the Greenwich...
...a little of "Patience," some also of "Him...
...When borne far from human actuality...
...putting nto them much that he has to chat about for our information mce the curtain has risen...
...But even Ibaen found that studies held closer to life can seldom carry their allegories lightly...
...I find, among the various strata of minds In this world," writes Miss Warde, "there are certain people, to use a radio figure of speech, with whom you can tune in—the click, so to speak, that comes with perfect rapport...
...but effectively swings •long the rhythm of life, catching |he soldiers into a fellowship, yet subtly debs sing them, snaring their ideals into cynicism...
...Where, we cry, s "The Top of the World" ? Where The Wizard of Oz...
...Ricci is the boy prodigy who appeared as soloist with the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra at Mecca Temple on Sunday, October 20th, last...
...as in Spenser's "Faerie Queene," as when Swift takes Gulliver a Journeying;, as when Maeterlinck throws impalpable veils over life...
...Bodansky Conducts "Orfeo ed Euridice" Sunday duck's opera, "Orfeo ed Eurif orm by the Society of the Friends of Music, Sunday afternoon, November 10th, in Mecca Auditorium...
...James Murray plays opposite Miss Nolan and the supporting cast consists of Lydia Yeamans Titus, Wheeler Oakman, Anders Randolf, Vols d'Avril, Mona Rico and jmmu Leong...
...Mary Nolan in "Shanghai Lady" At the Colony On Saturday, November 9th...
...NEWS AND COMMENT OF THE THEATRE THE week on the Stage The Movies jhsh the week on the stage By Joseph T. Shipley BROKEN CUP ALLEGORY is perhaps the meet _.j dtfflcalt of literary, figures...
...Opposite Miss Moore in prominent characterizations are Raymond Hackett and Frederic March, while others of importance in the supporting cast are Virginia Lee Corbin, Edward Martin del, Mickey Rennet, Adrienne d'Ambricourt, Frederic Howard, 3idney Jarvia, Cleve Moore, Ben Hendricks, Jr., and Larry Banthim "Footlights and Fools" was directed by William A Seiter from a story by Katherine Brush which was scenarized by Carey Wilson for First National Pictures...
...EnsJish Folk-Dancers Tonight The English Folk-Dancers of London, who will make their American debut in Carnegie Hall, Saturday evening, November 9th, are a group of seventeen dancers drawn from the English FolkDance Society, founded by Cecil Sharp, the eminent musician and collector of English folk-songs and dances...
...Skip is married to Clare and lives with much irritability upon her limitless fortune...
...Parker has taken the complexities of our marital affairs and has, in a most delicious fashion, woven them into a mirth inspiring week-end party of the American leisure class sojourning in France...
...In the hospital of the third act the emotions have broken through, on one path to the bitterness of defeat had frustration, on the other tc the here* clutching of the moment's Joy...
...Civic Repertory Theatre Third Anniversary The Civic Repertory Theatre's performance of Tchekov*s "The Sea Gull," this week marks the seven hundred and fiftieth performance of Eva Le Gallienne'a company in Fourteenth street...
...At an Invitation performance on Sunday evening, November 17, the group will present a series of scenes from Ks past successes:' Paul Robeson in O'Neil's •The Emporer Jones...
...But the author is interested less in his characters than in the idea he develop* through them—in which «p»the naming of "Ulysses" is appropriate...
...O'Casey has woven thii theme—that is, if this interprets lion of the allegory be approxi mately correct—with language o: beauty and at times sharp wit though not (deliberately not) witt singly moving plot...
...with the dances from "Fiesta" and song* from "Orpheus...
...Our intellectuals will bemoan the fact that the playwright has omitted the discussion of weighty problems and has spent the entire play in subtle references to affairs d'amour...
...Robin Hood is list ed next...
...The program consists of Country, Morris, and Swerd Dances under the leadership of Douglas Kennedy, the present director...
...The chorus has been provided, and is under the direction of Mr...
...and Mrs John Mundy...
...GOLDINE HTLLSON...
...adapted by Winifred Reeve (noted as Onoto Watahna, writer of many popular Oriental stories) from an original story by John Colton, was directed fey John Robertson...
...It Is easier to weave...
...Persinger, leading up to a European debut in part* Berlin and London next year American Music Hall To Open Sat...
...The theatre will be known as the Embassy, The Newsreel Theatre...
...Also featured on the progrsaf The Little Carnegie Playhoaaa an abstract film "The Tab...
...This performance also celebrated the third anniversary and initiated the fourth calendar season of the first repertory theatre in New York...
...The slot moves with a measure of ease hrough the time on stage...
...Vivienne Osborne, as Marga Chapman, is the lady around whom the three male characters revolve...
...For, in their sMSTSSit scales, both novel and flay present the one picture, of a etvfltsntion degenerating, degraded...
...Her action is downright reprehensible to those who still cling to the old-fashioned notion that the place of the daughter is with her mother...
...She will also have the support of a chorus in numbers from the Opera Alceste by Gluck...
...What with Marga'> disgust with her drinking husband, her desire to recapture bar romance with Skip, Clare's Jealousy of Marga, and finally the writer's undemonstrative adoration of Marga, many things happen in rapid succession on that memorable week-end...
...It takes for its locale the city of Shanghai...
...After his recital In Carnegie Hall, little Ricci will undergo a period of uninterrupted study with Mr...
...Especially realistic are the scenes taken on the Shanghai Express...
...There will be a large cast of comedians, singers and dances, coupled with a handpicked chorus of thirty-five beautiful girls...
...He is a pupil of Louis Persinger who win play the piano accompaniment at this recital Among the numbers which Ruggiero will play are: Fantasia Appassionata (Vieuxtemps) a Paganini Concerto, and a Mozart Concerto...
...Kenneth Harlan comes from the movies for his first stage appearance, and makes good with it...
...Bring hem along with the rest...
...The concert is under the patronage of the American Branches of the English FolkDance Society...
...Maria Theresa in Carnegie Hall Program Maria Theresa, one of the six original proteges of Isadora Duncan, will interpret a Gluck-Bacb program on Saturday evening, November 16th at Carnegie HalL No artist is better fitted to carry on the lofty Ideals of this art than is Maria Theresa...
...i "The Last Performs...
...With a single company numbering approximately twenty-five members, she has produced and preserved in her permanent repertory, the finest plays of Russia, France, Spain, Denmark, Italy and tcnginnri Those which have proved most popular have had frequent performances...
...I tm a pleasure to hear these tune Ad songs, which come with the al tee of memories out of othe: days, still valid in up-to-dat theatre...
...Shirley Warde, who appears in the title role of the Kelly play, things, that Maggie is justified...
...A continuous per formance from 1 to 11 p. m. will prevail on Sundays only anl twice dally at 2:30 and 8:30 thereafter...
...The role of Audrey, played by Sdith King, rises to a greater iniivi duality than the remaining 3arts...
...9 The American Music Hall, Jules Hurtig, general manager, have leased the theatre known formerly as Loew's American, at 42nd street and 8th avenue, for the operation of a permanent burlesque stock company...
...PASTIME IN BARBIZON We moderns have been expectantly waiting for Just such a play as "Week End...
...Maggie's behavior in deciding to leave may or may not be questionable in the minds of many moderns...
...Grant Mills as Skip, Frances Kelly as the blackmailing chauffeur, and Alfred Hesse as the most correct butler, all perform exceedingly welL As for Vivienne Osborne, only by witnessing her portrayal of he young wife who is emotionally unsettled by an unhappy marriage, can one appreciate her...
...Her presentation of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony given at Carnegie Hall last season?-as a memorial tribute to Isadora Duncan, stamp her as a great artist, intelectually and emotionally...
...production t'-arrtai 9 Veidt and Mary PhUbtaasgH ed by Dr...
...and is well acted...
...Eva Le Gallienne, who founded her repertory theatre on October 29th, 1926, with a performance of "Benavente's "Saturday Night," has produced twenty-two plays in the course of her four seasons as an independent director...
...One can readily understand their interest in her, since Miss Osborne has a way about her that would win the heart of any man...
...Sydney Shields, about whom it all stirs, plays her role with grace, and the players in general build where the play fails, so that between the two the evening passes pleasantly...
...8 in which Maria Theresa interprets the ascent of the soul to heaven...
...Before these marriages, Skip and Marga had been sweethearts...
...Paul Fejosjtgj management of this sepahfl Street Playhouse have ossacl hold over that unusual ahad other we*k starting thlsajpjl November 9th...
...Whole streets of Shanghai were reproduced in faithful detail for the production of the picture...
...This is the problem which confronts the heroine of George Kelly's latest play, "Maggie, the Magnificent" at the Cort theatre...
...Some of hi: figures, too, are obviously pointed es though bis poetry were, in thii play, but a fluctuating gleam, in stead of the steady searchligh beam he has elsewhere made ui LONG LIFE...
...It was written by Austin Parker and is presented by Be la Blau at the John Golden Iheatre...
...nurtured at its very source, she has consecrated her talent, her very life to its furtherance...
...Even there other forces Sjssjgast more selfish, narrower concerns...
...The passing of time wa Beads vivid by the presence in th box of Alice NIelson, who createthe chief role some thirty year ago...
...Ibsen, however, worked usually with a definite plot...
...Marga is married to a millionaire whose one fault is permanent inebriation...
...HAPPY AFTER ALL At the Vanderbilt, "White •lame" builds one of the good old ales of love that almost goes to he rocks, but of course finds its vay to the more solid rock-bed shall we say) of matrimony...
...Marge's week-end visit .to Clare and Skip is the first since their romance...
...Hundreds of Chinese were used by the director to give exactness to the schene...
...and the news of Babes I Toy land for Xmas doubtlei snakes many parents (then younj Stars) pun out their purses fc Director of Eurythmics he family treat...
...In this film, Vadtsp formance—his last under hfe e* tract with Universal—ranks, » cording to many, with fab ojg lent acting as the Sleepet||3 "The Cabinet of Dr...
...The opening, performance will be Saturday night, November 9th, with "1930 Burlesque De Luxe...
...won acclaim from the nafBjKa the'metropolitan critics sa^l 1 cellent camera work of Dth Fejos, whose directorial fj9| reaches the acme of perfeebsjs this film, if one may Judge htj critical approbation it baa bssssI ed...
...aj9 versa...
...Fc heated, what reason is there wh these valid pieces of earlier day should not continue to charm th OhDdren of those who flocked t them before...
...Howiver, the flow is not seriously impeded, and the play moves along...
...Kenneth MacGowan ia supervising the performance, which will be a treat to all whose memories cover those excellent plays—4f they are lucky enough to get in...
...On November 16th she will be accompanied in her original dance presentation by an orchestra of forty members of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Hans Lange, assistant conductor of that organization...
...The policy of the theatre will be a complete change of show weekly, and all seats will be reserver...
...Shankhal Lady...
...others have been presented at rarer intervals...
...Margaret Mower, as Clare, with her pet Pekinese, is unquestionably listed in the Social Register...
Vol. 9 • November 1929 • No. 14
