George M . Cohan Feasts In The "Tavern"
George M . Cohan Feasts In The "Tavern" The Stage The Movies Music THE WEEK ON THE STAGE By Joseph T. Shipley GOOD OLD HOKI'M 'THE T.4 VERS"* rci/h George M Cohan. \ The Fulton Theatre. T...
...others declare it is an outgrowth of the midnight "white folks' shows" at colored the atres in the South...
...Four years ago Harlem wai a place to g o slumming...
...It i s doubtful that Universal Pictures Corporation or its employees realize that what they are selling is not motion picture entertainment, but a symbol — a symbol so eloqueat that it may be said to have rendered the unknown soldier articulate and to bespeak the unuttered, dimly outlined thought in countless thousands of hearts...
...but it is so frankly presented as such that we enjoy seeing it seen...
...Paul Klein, Mr...
...The vagabond, for example, will stop an angry man and ask him to repeat the line with more fervor...
...Browaa ville Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackntat street...
...besides Miss Brice, are Robert Armstrong, Harry Green, Gertrude Astor and G. Pat Collins...
...A survey of the audience and a glance at the personnel constantly in line at the box office is heartening proof that there is an intelligent public and that its name is legion The thinker— not necessarily the good dresser— dominates the crowd...
...Berger's previous German films include "Cinderella," "Meistersinger," and "Waltz Dream," his Paramount films are "The Vagabond King" and "Feodora" with Pola Negri...
...Joseph Allen as the hired man gives a delightful interpretation of a half-wit, whose humor adds a deal to the burlesque melodrama of the evening...
...Responsive Cord Struck by Greatest War Picture Yet Filmed i Something recently happened in the publishing business...
...She looked very flushed and rosy...
...Never once has the clear-cut truth been proclaimed that book and picture constitute the real war against war...
...For "The Tavern" is essentially a play of a man who has gone mad about the drama . . . literally mad...
...It suddenly began to pour one afternoon—a regular deluge...
...It has an original synchronized music score with four songs, actually sung by Mady Christiana...
...Hal Neiman, the modern Nat Willis: Jack McBridge and his girl friends: Cspt...
...So does the virus of color-prejudice extent...
...In a recent magazine article of New York's night ife, by that town gossip, Walter Winchell, of the seven photographs )f night dubs used as illustrations 'our were of well known Harlem :lubs...
...An echo, of more recent date, is i found in the reception accorded ; a motion picture transcription of the book at a Broadway theatre...
...As the son, Theodore Newton is a fearsome but sturdy lad, well presented...
...Therefore "The Tavern" is a most appropriate play t o exhibit Mr...
...The featured players in "Three Live Ghosts" include Claude Allister, Charles McNaughton...
...The new regime at Brighton, scheduled to start early in June, marks the beginning of the most important era in seashore theatricals, placing the house side by side with the famous beach theatres in Atlantic City and Asbury Park...
...with bits of the song and dance man interspersed: "She's as big as a cow and as tame as a calf...
...Polis have been signed for featured roles in "Sez You, Sez Me," which will be directed by Irving Cummings...
...rack Crimmins, and Mr...
...He, however, by virtue of his abnormality— his remove from the average attitude—is alone a spectator while all the rest of the world performs...
...Nor are the other columnsts less aware of the news importance now attached to Harem...
...Rand Book Store, 'i East 15th street...
...The vaudeville hah...
...No newspaper and no amusement expert has peered beneath the surface of things deeply enough to discern that the book in question is more than literature, and the picture something that transcends entertainment...
...a fantastic and colorful offering: Harold Yates aad Cooper Lawley...
...Assuming that the motion picture is essentially ah instrument of entertainment, and that motion i picture audiences are largely ! made up of the frivolous element, everyone associated with public amusements has been struck spellbound by the sensational success of the picture...
...Mary Philips as the eternally wronged woman, with the ruin complex, does a good piece, and the others are equally up to the requirements of their roles...
...Thus the hokum, recognized on stage as such, does not bother those of us off...
...His gaiety gradually wins over to him all those who onstage suspect him: so that at the close not only the whole audience, but the cast, are with him wholly...
...And here come the coliimnists, as sure a sign of the interest of the public as the bluej i rd is of spring...
...That a responsive cord in the public mind has been struck is made apparent by the immense crowds that tax the capacity of the theatre twice daily—and for added performances in the late afternoon and at midnight which have been introduced nearly every day since the picture has been presented...
...The Burning Heart" was produced and directed by Ludwig Berger, Paramount director, in the Terra studios In Berlin...
...There is gen•rally somebody doing something, t stage hand prowling about, or % property man polishing furniture...
...Mona Rico and John St...
...In "Be Yourself...
...Arliss made a dash for the stage i o o r of the theatre...
...Mady Christians is supported by a large cast of German stage and screen favorites, including Gustav Froehlich, Friedrich Kayssler, Frieda Richard, Ida Wuest and Lena Malena...
...The Changing Harlem No one seems to know just hov or where the present fad for Ne gro entertainment started...
...It party, the port of last call of every visitor to the Great White Way...
...Harlem is acepted...
...Indeed, the various players are a goodly company for Mr...
...Here may be seen Louis 3obol of the Graphic, Mark Hellnger of the Mirror, Lou Sherwin tnd Russell Crouse, Marcus Grifin, Bernie Feinman, Bob Davis, ttan James of the Eagle, Lee Poster of the Morning Telegraph, and iny number of others...
...John J. rarey continues in his direction, tnd with him are still associated, tfr...
...Kathrin Clare Ward, Tom O'Brien and Alan Roscoe play important parts in the photoplay...
...All attractions will play a minimum engagement of one week, although In some cases they may be continued for longer periods...
...Inside in the strange gloom that pervades a :losed theatre in the daytime, he found himself standing next to Miss Montgomery, who had also just dashed in out of the rain...
...Tbe Cotton Club opened in Harlem six years ago and was an Instantaneous success...
...But with this growth of interest on the part of the white world came an ever increasing importance...
...The book and motion picture under discussion are Erick Maria Remarque's epic of the World War, "All Quiet on the Western Front," and Universal's picturization of it, now being exhibited at the Central Theatre...
...Their romance has been one of h e happiest among stage people...
...Arliss proposed and was accepted by Miss Montgomery because both knew enough to come in out of the rain...
...Bernard Capehart...
...Tbe cast includes well-known artists of the stage in this talking film based on the play by George Middleton and E. A. Thomas, Golf enthusiasts will be able to see Walter Hagen aad Leo Diegel in a highly diverting golf film in which much golf wisdom is dispensed in a humorous manner...
...work with Mr...
...as the audience at length discovers...
...This final concert is composed of the spirituals and other Negro Folk songs for which the Choir is famous...
...From present indications the follow-theleader complex which always has pervaded that field will be responsible for a weird assortment of heavy productions in work In the Hollywood studios this Summer...
...Hundreds of Socialists f r om various parts o f the city, who have purchased tickets for the affair, will be In attendance, as will members of other organizations that have obtained allotments of tickets for the event, which is staged b y Maurice Frank...
...German and Pole, Russian, Scandinavian and Jew, Hungarian and swarthy Italian—the intelligentsia of every radical group in New York, including Japanese and Chinese, are to be found at every performance rubbing elbows with their native intelligentsia of every strata of the New York social structure...
...all the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players...
...The Shuberts, vhose advertising has been placed hrough Capehart Carey Inc., durn g the past, will continue to use he same personel of the Capehart ?arey Co., through the Blaine rhompson Company...
...The story of the play is another excellent piece of hokum...
...175th performance of the St...
...Chevalier in "Big Pond" At the Rialto Theatre Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert are now appearing In a new hit, "The Big Pond," Paramount'3 latest release starring the international favorite at the Rialto Theatre, Times Square...
...Fraser" company, gave the...
...Hall Johnson Negro Choir To Give Last Concert at Mansfield Theatre Sunday Many of the readers of the New Leader will be interested to know that the Hall Johnson Negro Choir will give its last recital of the season at the Mansfield Theatre on next Sunday evening, May 25th, at 8:30...
...and occasionally reality breaks through the stagy conversation, as whan the vagabond slyly repeats the remark about the wife never resting, when he hears that she has had twelve children...
...Andy Gella, Mr...
...The dazed puzzlement of those in charge of the Central Theatre, the confusion that obtained when an eager public swamped the place, aad the waspish activities of the ubiquitous ticket scalpers constantly outwitting the efforts of the management to drive them off, combine to prove that Universal did not know what a welcome feast of reason it had spread for the delectation of an intelligent public...
...The established firm of Capelart Carey, Inc., known throughjut the theatrical industry, is now >art of the Blaine Thompson Company, advertising agents for the iVaroer Bros...
...Strand Theatre, brings from the Warner publicity offices a rather touching little story about his romance with Florence Montgomery, the lady who subsequently became his wife...
...Although definite reports of the number of tickets sold b y Socialist branches are lacking as The New Leader goes to press, Socialist party officials feel that there .aSt...
...A few intrepid adventurers would cross 110th street boldly and with shrieks of laughter to disguise their fears and emphasize their bravado would visit a few of the better known clubs...
...What could one d o ? I asked l e r to marry me...
...Thi play is also running in Berlin am is being presented in Paris at th Theatre Albert by the Englist Players...
...All the emotional savour of the stage is an aroma that clings to him, with the pleasant sense of the good rtadition of theatrical hokum...
...of the show consists of Meyer Golden's "Dance Fables...
...Gary Cooper is starred in this with Mary Brian, Phillips Holmes, Morgan Farley and Guy Oliver prominent in the supporting cast...
...George M. Cohan as the vagabond gives a delightful portrait of the whimsical drama-mad wanderer...
...This Columbia talkie was directed by Albert Ray and was adapted from the story "Borrowed Love...
...Tickets for the event will COB...
...Cohan's friendly advances...
...T t H E R E is that in the name anc X In the presence, of George M. Cohan, which suggests the theatre at its best...
...The sight is must unusual, probably unprecedented in the theatres of Broadway, and is due to universal recognition of the fact that the anti-war campaign is presented in the most powerful and unanswerable form yet devised in the transcription of Remarque's eloquent text to the screen...
...Its scenery, music, costumes, dancing, and especially its chorus is the talk of the town "Samson" Benefit To Be Held This Saturday With the stage set for what promises to be the outstanding popular musical event of the summer season, the curtain will rise at Madison Square Garden Saturday evening...
...The tragi-comedy of life goes on about him: as spectator (even as we in the theatre by night) he can see the forces that play upon the characters, and foresee events they cannot ten unto the coming...
...175th Perfosnawmee for "The Pint Mrs...
...Beginning Saturday...
...No doubt there are other subjects—and many of them—which the intelligentsia would generously support with patronage if given the opportunity, but motion picture producers have been slow to realize the possibilities...
...Frank Turtle directed this Civil War romance which is from a story by Keene | Thompson...
...Borough Park Labor Ly ceum, 14th avenue and 42nd street...
...Included in this program are other features, among them being the appearance of Floyd pibbons telling of the Byrd South Pole Expedition, in itself thoroughly entertaining...
...The second half of the week, Wednesday through Friday, brings "Only the Brave" to Little Carnegie's screen...
...Fannie Brice's comedy and "Three Live GEists" in which Beryl Mercer is featured, will be offered...
...Veteran producers and exhibitors are shaking their heads wisely and proclaiming sagely that the hour has struck when the public is interested in the serious things of life for screen material...
...Hall Johnson, the Conductor, has made some new arrangements of interesting numbers, but the program as a whole, Includes many old favorites such as "Nobody Knows De Trouble I See, Lord," "Religion Is A Fortune," "Keep A-Inchin* Along," "I'm a Eas' man," etc...
...There are plenty of good dreaser3, too, obviously representatives of the fashionable book-loving element, but the rank and file is made up of sons of toil, eager to absorb a familiar and beloved doctrine presented in the readily assimilable f o rm of images on the screen...
...Johi Ervine comedy at the Playhouse This mid-winter success is aha proving a hot weather b i t in Nev York as well ss fat London...
...Robert Montgomery and Jocelyn Lee...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announces acquisition of screen rights to "Union Station," the Munaey Magazine story by Nan Page...
...Perhaps this sounds a bit foolish, but read on: Arliss was teaching at a theatrical school in Margate, England, and he had fallen in love with one of his beautiful pupils, Florence Montgomery, and she with him, although very little had been actually said, as the proprietress of the school did not allow tier instructors to make love to her pupils...
...Strangely enough, no intelligent analysis of this record smashing development has come to light in the avalanche of fulsome praise that has greeted the picture...
...It featured such stars as Isabelle Washington, Cora La Redd, Celeste Coles, Leisha Hill and others...
...There she waa wet through tnd through, and I could do nothng for her—because I was wet :oo...
...Through the cooperation of Laurence Rivers of "The Green Pastures," many of the angels of "The Green Pastures" chorus, who are well known for their -past...
...George Arliss Is at the Strand This Week The return to the Broadway screen of that noted artist, George Arliss, who is starred in "The Creen Goddess," current at Warner Bros...
...It was a curious thing that that theatre should have been absolutely deserted except for us two," said Arliss...
...Cornelius Freudenthal, Mr...
...It too has broken all records...
...Call of tbe West" At the Hippodrome Another first-run picture holdi the screen interest at RKO's Hippodrome this week, where "Call of the West," featuring Dorothy Revier and Matt Moore is presented...
...tinue to be on sale in all parti a the city until Saturday afteraom Socialists who want the party U j resale a share of the prooaSBwS from the sales are asked to pelchase their tickets in adance a' any one of the following station* 1 Jewish Daily Forward, 176 Kef I Broadway...
...bemusing them and amusing the audience offstage...
...For four years now, Harlem has been the accepted place to round out the evening...
...into the ranks of the Negro himself...
...A book written by an unknown, a poor ex-German soldier f r om the ranks, j expressing the viewpoint of his I kind toward war and the driving I forces behind wholesale human | slaughter, broke all sales records i throughout a large part of the j world...
...Neither the publishers of the book nor the makers of the motion picture appear to have a clear conception of the wares from which they are raking in fortunes...
...To "the vagabond...
...ia a sensational novelty and HerI bert, Geraldine and Victoria, a I n ew generation of aerialists...
...Willis Mauss...
...May 24, f o r a presentation of • the opera "Samsqu and Delilah...
...The degree of prosperity enjoyed by the producers who have gone far afield to create something to appeal to normal adult intelligence may bring out investigation in the industry that will lead to emulation...
...The Harlem clubs were suspicious of downtown visitors at first, gradually opened their doors to the whites and now many of the more snobbish places will not admit customers of their own race...
...Here come the crowds from the Main Stem, here haughty Park ivenue rubs elbows with its colored cook...
...Johnson, will sing with the Choir on that evening, while some interesting new solo voices will also be heard...
...The entire campaign against war, reiterated by The New Leader and other socalled radical newspapers for years, is epitomized in the book and picture in powerful eloquence hitherto unknown...
...Capehart Carey, Inc., Now Controlled by the Blaine Thompson Co...
...At The Little Carnegie An unusual double feature bill ushers in the new week at Leo Brecheris Little Carnegie Playhouse, 46 West 57th street...
...Somi attribute it to the influence ol post-war Paris...
...May 24th, for four days, "Be Yourself...
...He is therefore able to speak to the various persons the storm sends into the tavern in a way at once whimsical, queer, and vaguely prophetic...
...B r o a d w a y Shows at Brighton Broadway will be brought to Brighton Beach this summer when, {for the first time in its history, the Brighton Theatre, operated for many years as a vaudeville house, will inaugurate a policy of legitimate stage attractions...
...All is now is the wind-up of every theatre changed...
...Finnish Socialist Hall, 2056 Fifth avenue...
...as she settles the problems of life . . . with a laugh...
...be a large representation of aV I ciaiism, and that a proftt will aVJ crue to both the city office ess 1 the branches of the party as a result of the sales made, saslaB % the party organization to contbna its work without curtailing any of its activities...
...At any rate the fad became a craze, then t fashion, and now almost a habit Van Vechten's "Nigger Heaven" ii but one of many books written or the subject of recent years, and "Blackbirds" and "Hot Chocolates' illustrate the stage influence...
...Both pictures were directed by Thornton Freeland...
...The Burning Heart" Stays Third Week At 55th Street Playhouse The German musical film romance T h e Burning Heart," with Mady Christians, will enter the third week of its run at the 55th Street Playhouse, beginning this Saturday, May 24th...
...noted German war ace...
...It will play only the highest grade of dramatic and musical comedy productions prior to Manhattan engagements and will give the oceanside its first Broadway shows since the days of the old Manhattan Beach Theatre over a quarter of a century ago...
...Victor recording songsters...
...or tell the young fellow who swears he will marry only for love, that this is the best he has ever heard the line spoken...
...Every night one or twp or talf a dozen of them may be oblerved seated at ringside tables, it the Cotton Club, at Ye Olde «Jest, at Connie's, j o t t i ng down anscdotes, news items, names of ceebrities...
...The Tavern" is a pleasant reminder that the gentle art cf getting across in the theatre is no new game, and that the players themselves recognize their ways, and enjoy the tricks of the trade as much as those whom they (sometimes) deceive...
...Fraser' Last Tuesday Grace George, A E. -Matthews, Lawrence Gross mith and members of "The Firs Mrs...
...Indeed, so important has Harlem become that it has overstepped its own boundaries...
...George M . Cohan Feasts In The "Tavern" The Stage The Movies Music THE WEEK ON THE STAGE By Joseph T. Shipley GOOD OLD HOKI'M 'THE T.4 VERS"* rci/h George M Cohan...
Vol. 10 • May 1930 • No. 16
