EVA LE GALLIENNE--Gallant And Gay
EVA LE GALLIENNE--Gallant And Gay The Stage The Movies Music THE WEEK ON THE STAGE By Joseph T. Shipley EVA HAS HER WAT ' "THE OPE.V DOOR." By Alfred Sutro "THE WOMEN HAVE THEIR WAY."...
...and other features...
...Not as finished aa the imported product of several, and then some more, years back, they have a rough readiness that makes their work refreshing, even when not wholly removed from the' amateur...
...The very name of the second play is thus an unwitting challenge (especially as this comedy gives signs of having been the earlier written...
...In the Fant&sie and Fugue in G minor by Bach-Liszt, he paid exceptional regard to the dynamics and produced a beautiful velvet tone in the pianissimo passages...
...The Phantom of the Opera," from Gaston Leroux' famous story of that name, is a mystery thriller concerning the evil done by a demented creature who stalks the Grand Opera House in Paris, and who in his desire to be loved, abducts a popular singer, taking- her to his chambers in the underground cellar...
...Gifted with Beauty and Charm SYLVIA SIDNEY combine* that rare comb::- tion of beauty and brains...
...Thus the young lawyer from Madrid (Donald Cameron again) finds himself despite his strong words against marriage, arranging to sit outside the window where Juanita (Eva once more) will await him, And "a college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor...
...In production, and in choice of plays to produce, these two pieces make a valid addition to the Civic Repertory list, wholly different from its several Russian dramas, yet enlivening and genuine and rich with theatrical fare...
...Among the attendees were Henry Hull, Leslie Howard, Donald Meek, Harry Beresford, Henry Biberman, Katherine and Guy Standing, Arthur Byron, Philip Merrivale, Basil Sydney, Mary Ellis, Ruth Nelson and others...
...Which returns...
...The other' numbers on the program were Kreisleriana by Robert Schumann and a group of solos by Chopin...
...In this talking screen version of the George M. Cohan stage play, Dix is supported by Miriam Seegar and Lucien Littlefield...
...A suggestion of the Senator from Alabama in "The Sap From Syracuse"—the tendency of many folk to create a legend once it has been started —gives body to this play, and even more directly to General John Regan of Bolivia...
...Walter Murphy, as the explosive revolutionary editor, is especially live...
...Lost Zeyyetia** «* Gaiety "The Lost Zeppelin," Tiffany's all-talking special with Conway Tearle, Virginia VaUi snd Ricardo Cortes ^^Atng the cast, opened st the Gaiety Theatre Saturday afternoon for an extended ran...
...When a first produced play has been so immediate a success as "Strictly Dishonorable," the next venture of the same playwright has usually tough sailing, so far as the critical guests are concerned...
...Civic Repertory Theatre...
...Succeeding lectures win deal specifically with "Rheingold and Agamemnon...
...Dost think I care for a satire, or an epigram...
...The story deals with a Zeppelin which is wrecked after flying over the South Pole...
...But women, in a small town, are more than nine points of the law...
...Though Harnett's style is calculated to appeal more to the intellect rather than to the emotions, his performance at this recital roused his audience to an unusual pitch of enthusiasm...
...These are presented in full realiism, with color and music, giving to all extent and purposes the first comprehensive rendition of an opera by the talking screen...
...So Long Letty" at Strand and Beacon Charlotte Greenwood, lanky and limber "Letty" of a cycle of farces very popular a few years back, la at the New York and Brooklyn Strands and the new Beacon Theatre in her first all-talking picture, "So Long, Letty...
...The opening...
...This film revue, which is now in its eighth record-breaking week at the New Metro pole Theatre in the West End of London, was produced by British New Era, under the personal supervision of Sir Gordon Craig...
...The tremendous technical difficulties of Brahms were non-existent to this brilliant young virtuoso in the variations on a theme of Paganini...
...By George A. Birmingham...
...Course of Lecture* on Wagner ' The music-dramas of Richard Wagner, which are soon to be produced at the Metropolitan, are the subject of an unusual course of lectures by Adele T. Katz, the first of which win be given Tuesday, Feb...
...The words are from 'Much Ado About Nothing," but they might have been Adolfo's to the old doctor, whom the women had once led to take part in a bull fight, and who did his best to save the unsuspecting lawyer...
...Kandel's course has proved very popular, and his "Black Sun" is an important novel which has been given much favorable comment from many literary sources...
...Sutro's one-act The Open Door" is a clever, rather than an emotional capture of that moment when a devoted friend and a loyal wife discover, or reveal, their patient, stifled1 love for one another while husband sleeps innocently— and without danger of horns—upstairs...
...When the Cat's Away," a Disney Sound Cartoon...
...Originally scheduled for a premiere on Tuesday evening, February 11, it win instead open on Thursday, February 13th...
...While the* "rapture" of Preston Sturges' first play is far from careless, ets either a visit or a reading will make at once manifest, the play moves with a casual breathlessness which all critics defy him to recapture...
...The suggestion that the devil must have been reading Bernard Shaw is indicative of the play's method: subtle shades of meaning are wafted through the night, until the fireplace dims with the paling of dawn, and loyal friend and devoted wife move their disparate ways...
...STATUES WILL RISE "GENERAL JOHN REGAN...
...Miss Raize course, which consists of five lectures on consecutive Tuesday mornings, will deal with the great composer of music-drama in the same interpretative manner which Miss Katz used in dealing with modern composers in the series of lectures which she recently concluded at the Guild Hall...
...Included ths featured players are Or Withers, Bert Roach, Patsy Miller, Marion Byron, Helen ter, Hall am Cooley and Harry Gribbon...
...Lon Chaney, who plays the "Phantom," is supported by a large cast...
...At The Bottom" Comes Up The professional matinee of "At the Bottom" on Friday, Jan...
...CHAS...
...The Last Mile" is a drama with an all-male cast headed by Spencer Tracy...
...Others of importance in the stage show are Florence Brady and Gilbert Wells, Cunningham and Clement, the Honey Family, Dei Chain and Artie Conroy, snd the Three Small Brothers...
...Part of the opera "Faust" is heard and seen in this production (not only arias but the choruses and several of the ballet scenes...
...Richard Wagner and the Nlebelungen Ring" is the subject of the course, which will begin Tuesday by a discussion of the text of the great Ring Cycle...
...Recapture" does not quite live up to its name, but should at least capture its share of Broadway's attention...
...Phantom of the Opera" At the Colony Theatre Universal's talking version of "The Phantom of the Opera" is now at the Colony Theatre...
...This Thursday evening it is opening for a brief tryout at Parsons' Theatre in Hartford...
...and he is set opposite her once more in the Quintero brothers' comedy "The • Women Save Their Way," turned into palatable sfiagMah by Granvule-Barkera...
...31, was marked by one of the largest attendances on record...
...The comic moments are worthy of what we expected...
...A notable cast of comedians has been assembled in support of Miss Greenwood for "So Lone;, which is a Warner Bros, and phone production...
...There is no doubt, for example, that the subtleties— when there are any—of Birmingham's "General John Regan" might be lighted more delicately by a cast elsewhere chosen...
...The deft and amusing lines of this c o m e d y pass pleasantly through an effective cast, with Egon Brecher mellow as the priest, and various others in equally entertaining roles, including his two mumming nieces...
...Eltinge Theatre...
...This overflow turnout was due in a large measure to the curiosity of the acting profession who were desirous of viewing the work Of Leo Bulgakov, directing an American group in a Russian play...
...but the burly, broad lines of its usual satire stream lustily from these people...
...Unfortunately, it does not know quite how to end, and that messy elevator will always be ready In deux minutes, falls—"dea in machinal" at the close—carrying the heroine and the play to death together...
...The picture is said to have been more than a year in the making David Barnett in Recital David Barnett, the young American pianist, appeared on Monday evening last in a recital at Carnegie Hall before a large and cordial audience...
...It is farce at its fastest and funniest, with Miss Greenwood romping through her part more grotesquely and dexterously than she did in the stage version...
...By Preston Sturoet...
...in characters, in situation, and often In dialogue, the play tickles...
...This program marks the inauguration of the new sound film policy, which the 55th Street Playhouse is going to adapt for future programs...
...but let It be said that, judged without any bias of prior success, "Recapture," despite one or two brief slow stretches, is an entertaining play...
...for these small-town women are very gammers of gossip, and move to make real what their fancies frame...
...THE FIRST FINE RAPTURE "RECAPTURE...
...if a man will be beaten with brains, he shall wear nothing handsome about him...
...In brief, since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world ean say against it: for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion...
...11, at the Stein way Guild Han, at 113 West 57th Street, at eleven o'clock in the morning...
...Donald Cameron makes a good partner for Eva Le Gallienne in this piece...
...That thoroughly English young clergyman confronted with, and then enamoured of, the American golddigger with the gift of slang...
...All the World Wondered" Now Called "The Last Mile" Herman Shtrmlin announces that the play by John Wesley which has hitherto been known as "AH the World Wondered" will now be called "The Last Mile...
...Here we have a Spanish version of Beatrice and Benedick, with the erpbanig on the feminine fashioning...
...DDLLXN GBAM should be very happy these days for he back Fred and the famous Stones In "Hippies," which opens gagement at the New Amsterdam Theatre this week...
...At the Strand Theatre GRANT WITHERS is one of the many celebrities appearing in "So Long...
...The play, though wide in its sweeping gestures as an arm that heaves a brick, is just that forceful in its picture, not merely of the Irish as people, but of the Irish—and most any one else—as members of a state, as political beings, as politicians...
...Barnett takes his music seriously, aa was evidenced by bis highly intelligent performance...
...At the little Theatre Miss Sidney is to be seen in "Many A Slip," Lew Cantor's new show...
...The same program contains George Bernard Shaw's famous addres...
...K. D. "Seven Keys" at Hippodrome The R-K-O Hippodrome this week is presenting Richard Dix in "Seven Keys to Baldpate," his first Radio picture...
...Author of "Black Sun" Civee Course of Lectures A ben Kandel, weU known in literary circles, will give the sixth of his course of lectures in current literary trends, this Tuesday evening at the Rand School...
...Ernest Newman's translation will be used...
...date, too, has been altered...
...Barnett's previous appearance in New York was on January 12 with the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra, Dr...
...The plane is able to carry only one passenger, and the commander knows that his young unmarried aide is in love with his wife...
...For her Intelligent command of the shades of personality makes her interpretations increasingly deep with implications the good playwright leaves -for the actor to suggest...
...We may add another superlative, fur this charming little lady seems to overpower as with each new part she plays...
...Henry Hadley conducting.—C...
...The Irish Theatre...
...If the work of Patricia were up to the level of that of the rest of the cast, there could be no complaint as to the playing— though Auguste of ths elevatorMeyer Bereuson—looks the drole enough for special mention...
...Letty," which comes to both the Strand and Beacon Theatres on Friday...
...but that's more than enough to annoy such Irish ss are, with fchadaoss but none too gently satirized in a play that reaches out from Ireland to include all humankind...
...Somehow the public should be brought to know of this group of Irish players...
...London Revue Talkie .At 55th Street Theatre T h e Co-Optimists," the all-talking, singing and dancing revue of the British world-famous entertainers, had Its first American showing at the 55th Street Playhouse Tuesday, February 4th, for an indefinite run...
...By Serafm and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero...
...Featured in the picture are Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin and Norman Kerry...
...and the pieces of the evening are by good playwrights...
...EVA LE GALLIENNE--Gallant And Gay The Stage The Movies Music THE WEEK ON THE STAGE By Joseph T. Shipley EVA HAS HER WAT ' "THE OPE.V DOOR...
...On the six act vaudeville bill Joe Jackson, the funny tramp on the bicycle returns to the Hippodrome for the first time since Charles B. Dillingham managed that house...
...Among the principals in addition to Norman Kerry and Mary Philbin are Snitz Edwards, Gibson Gowland, John Sain polls, Virginia Pearson, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Edith Yorke, Anton Vaverka and Bernard Siegel...
...By the end it has completely split: for the high comedy mood, and the social-sentimental mix less than oil and firewater...
...His grand-niece by Active creation is ready to unveil the monument, even though the promised king puts in no appearance— and "The Wearing o' the Green" replaces "Rule Brittaenia all the ******** have of an afternoon...
...IN THE new double bill of the Civic Repertory Theatre, Eva Le Gallienne has cast herself for the two main roles, and has done well...
...The commander and his side are the only members of the crew alive when a rescue plane appears...
...It directed by Lloyd Bacon...
...So Long:, Letty" was, adapted for the screen by Robert Lord and Arthur Caesar...
...It is when she turns out to be not a gold-digger, but one of those honest - to - goodness self - sacrificing dear creatures, that the play begins to crack...
Vol. 10 • February 1930 • No. 1
