The Week On The Stage
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
The Week On The Stage By Joseph T. Shipley THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET," by Rudolf Besicr. At the Empire. KATHARINE CORNELL'S first venture as a producer is a vivid picture of an...
...It is Fortune Gallo's production of Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci...
...Let it he admitted at once that no play can recapture the mental image most lovers of literature cherish, of Robert Browning and his wife...
...Although Signor Gallo has adhered strictly to the original and was careful to avoid what might be called a "Hollywood version," a novelty has been introduced into the picturization of "Pagliacci'' by including a ballet in the first act and again at the opening of the second, adding to the action and effectiveness of the picture...
...Father's Son?* With Lewis Stone and Irene Rich at Strand Theatre -Father's Son,'* with Lewis Stone, Irene Rich and Leon Janney featured, will have its Eastern premiere at the Strand Theatre, Friday, February 20...
...the clutch ol i-rcjt tightens on Elizabeth's arm...
...Into the character ' r. Barrett a deal of Freudian t it has gone...
...Her lectures are timed to accompany the presentation of the operas at the Metropolitan Opera House in the annual Wagner cycle...
...But 1 suppose if you multiply 1,000 "fan mail" requests for songs per week, they've worth what they're getting...
...Scare two names to mind for subtly restrained and intellectually balanced playing, to set be3ide that of Katharine Cornell, as she meets the demands of this exhausting piece...
...This Teutonic film accomplishment is a heart rending accusation against war madness, and it's showing at least once each year in every school as a preventative against future conflicts has been urged upon the Reichstag by Alfred Kerr, of the "Berliner Tageblatt" and by many other critics...
...In her anxiety to be scholarly, she has sacrificed flexibility...
...This is a talking picture record of Count Byron Khun de Prorok's unusual discoveries in ancient Carthage, Utica and Libya in an expedition backed by the Algiers Museum of Natural History...
...Viennese Nights" Note At the Beacon and B'klyn Strand Theatres "Viennese Nights" moves from the New York Strand Theatre Friday into the Beacon, at 74th Street, and opens concurrently at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre...
...Having looked at the Mountaineers, we shall shudder as we hear the radio tunes from their guitar, bull fiddle, bass jug, accordion, violin, jews-harp, harmonica, and sweet potato...
...Historical cities are excavated right in front of the camera, and discoveries unearthed in view of the spectator...
...But its major mood is tense and heady and rich...
...Then let it be emphatically said it all ii real...
...Rex Cole's Mountaineers, the hillbilly musicians from our sunny South, will carry back to Dixie as much of $175,000 as their intermediaries leave them...
...One of the most unusual things to be seen in "Lost Gods" shows Count de Prorok opening the tomb of a Cartbagenian dancing girl...
...ADELE T. KATZ LECTURE One of the most ambitious talks in the lecture-recital field was given by Adele T. Katz in opening her series at Steinway Hall, February 10, on Wagner's NIbelungen Ring...
...The "Ring" consumes four long afternoons at the Metropolitan, yet Miss Katz in the space of an hour and a half succeeded not only in giving the historical background of Wagner's remarkable musicdramas and an outline of the story, but also in presenting to her audience the essential leit-motifs as they occur in the operas...
...One would like them at least to hr.ve crossed glances, if not verk-swords...
...Miss Katz has thoroughly mastered her material, but not entirely her delivery...
...he never so much, as sees his father-in-law...
...Vivienne Segal, Alexander Gray and Walter Pidgeon play the featured roles in this romance of old and new Vienna...
...Miss Katz's survey gives one a comprehension of the sweep and unity of the four operas as the story develops and the motifs take their place in the glorious music that is Wagner...
...The Romberg-Hammerstein romance is finding high favor in its popular price showings...
...There were jewels and ornaments of gold and silver and a vanity case containing seven different shades and types of rouge—obviously suggesting that the ladies painted centuries ago...
...Josephine Chappelle and Harry Carlton, an "Comrades of 1918," German Film Epic, Begins Indefinite Run at Cameo...
...The Week On The Stage By Joseph T. Shipley THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET," by Rudolf Besicr...
...Advertised as the most human drama eOer shown on the Strand screen, "Father's Son," is an adaptation of "Old Fathers and Young Sons," Booth Tarkington's famous story of a father who gave his son everything but understanding...
...Gold cymbals and other requisites of her art told the explorers of the girl's occupation...
...the Gamby Girls, L a Belle Pola, bright star of Monkey land...
...Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein 2d., the authors and composers of this, their first romance written directly for the screen, assisted Alan Crosland fh its direction "La Nuit Est a Nous" at The Little Carnegie The newest all-French talkie to reach America, "La Nuit Est A Nous" (The Night Is Ours) had its American premiere at the Little Carnegie Playhouse on West 57th Street yesterday...
...She recognizes, but only in passing, that the "Ring" might be looked upon as a conflict of labor and capital...
...KATHARINE CORNELL'S first venture as a producer is a vivid picture of an oppressed family, and a sensitive study of its genius, Elizabeth Barrett...
...A contract* for that sum, with Rex Cole, our General Electric distributor, was accepted last Monday by Merlin H. Aylesworth,' president of the, NBC, (which has nothing to do with biscuits), for the Mountaineers...
...Today the Cameo resumes its continuous popular price policy with "Comrades of 1948," as its superattraction...
...Miss Katz should develop the social point of view...
...t LOUIS STANLEY Joe Cook, Star of "Fine And Dandy" Honored In recognition of the vast amount of publicity given Evansville, Ind., by Joe Cook, the Rotary Club of that city yesterday voted unanimously to enroll the "Fine and Dandy" star as an honorary member of the organization...
...And In addition, the work enjoys a popularity of which few of the great musical dramas can boast...
...and at times the grim father grows to a semblance of Svengali...
...Violet Carlson, musical comedy's petite comedienne heads the attractive vaudeville show that includes Sammy Cohen, the little comic of the screen...
...With it he reopened a scandal that probably enlivened breakfast tables 4,000 years ago...
...First Sound Film of Grand Opera Chosen to Inaugurate Brecher's Central Park Theatre The first complete sound film of a grand opera has been selected by Leo Brecher to inaugurate a policy of motion pictures at his recently acquired Central Park Theatre (formerly J Olson's) on Seventh Avenue at 59t& Street...
...Musicians and critics who have previewed the film' are of the opinion that Che vocal recordings and orchestral effects are produced in a distinctly superior manner...
...In the latter task she was assisted at the piano by Hyman Kurzweil...
...The decision to film this particular opera is considered a wise one as "Pagliacci" lends itself admirably to screen requirements...
...I hope some of that $175,000 goes to relieve starvation in the Southern hills...
...His talk, which accompanies the film, reveals hitherto unknown facts concerning the lives, customs and religions ot people who thousands of years ago vanished from the face of the earth...
...Besier has made the large and lively Barrett family a background for the struggle between the head of the family, who wishes to keep his daughters all unmarried, and the invalid Elizabeth, whom loves makes well, then frees...
...Lost Gods" at the Warner, Film Record Of Lost Civilisation Skyscrapers in the desert—built of mud and salt, which would melt away in the slightest rain, except that there Is no rain— Lost civilizations, burled for thousands of years under desert sands— A beautiful white queen of savage desert tribes—fact, not a fictional scenario— The scandal of an infatuation for a dancing girl by a prince 40 centuries ago— These and many other a r w r i ng incidents are presented in "Lost Gods," current at the Warner Theatre...
...All seats were reserved and the entice house was scaled at $5.50 for this performance only...
...It is brief, it possesses variety, the costumes are effective and the scenes are plctorially delightful...
...G. B. Shaw, years ago in the "Perfect Wagnerite" showed the revolutionary implications of Wagner's music, as the times made them rich in social feeling...
...It is learning thi3 that sets Elizabeth free, gives her the (still frightened) power to dash for Italy as Mrs...
...Let it be added that the present play gives further shock by confronting us, who picture Browning as a staid old man, with an impetuous young fellow, a firebrand, a dandy (Yet "Sordello" won its paeans and its scorn when Browning was 25...
...it is performed by an excellent cast, with Brian Aherne a good Browning for his Barrett, and Katharine Cornell the crown of a royal play...
...Not all of "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" maintains the rich tone it takes on after its leisured opening...
...Danny Small with Harry Mays, dark hued dance .exponents...
...The heart of Wagner's music is the motifs accompanying the characters, the^objects, the activities or the scenes depicted...
...With Miss Stanwyck, film land's newest find are: James Rennie, Charles Butterworth, Joan BlondelL, Natalie Moo reread, Ricardo Cortez and Claude Gillingwater...
...She could take'much less for granted than she does of the expertness of her audience and elaborate and illustrate some points more than she does...
...Illicit" and Splendid Vaudeville at the Hipp "Blicit" the screen feature at R-K-O's Hippodrome this week starring Barbara Stanwyck is the unusual revelation of a girl's strange love theories...
...Charles Gregory and Jules Raymond, musical maniacs...
...Moreover, she has not developed sufficiently the social interpretation of music, although she is aware of this significance...
...Considered A Biting Accusation Against War Madness "Comrades of 1918," the German screen epic, which as "Four Infantry Men on the Western Front in 1918" has been the sensation of Central Europe, had its American premiere Thursday evening (February 19)- at the R-K-O Cameo Theatre, before a distinguished audience...
...Iicrrrr thought—for she lived l°:?io the OEdipus complex was n'.ned — may legitimately rise from the new knowledge that all the Barrett children save herself were conceived in fey—the father satisfying himself upon a wretched wife...
...Lost Gods" is the result of eight years' search into the lost civilizations of antiquity...
...Her voice is somewhat monotonous and her pedagogy at times defective...
...Act Two moves with the "Sonnets from the Portuguese" rather than with Robert Browning...
...Browning...
...What Ho, the Woodsmen...
...Even Robert Browning is subordinated to this duel...
...Thursday evening was one of vast importance in the history of the Cameo, R-K-O's popular theatre on 42nd Street, with representatives of the German Republic as well as other prominent personages of all nationalities on hand...
...G. W. Pabst directed this NeroTalking Picture and Fritz Kampere, Gustav Diessl, Hans Joachim Moebis and Claus Clausen play .the four important characters...
...Count de Prorols, who headed the expedition, is a famous author and scientist...
...The role of Elizabeth Barrett not only is as sensitive and varied a part as Katharine Cornell has played, but reveals her prominent in the theatrical list as leading lady of the land...
...Also on the Strand program is a Vitaphone "short'* featuring Henry Santry, noted orchestra leader, and his "Soldiers of Fortune...
...A working class audience would help her to do so...
Vol. 12 • February 1931 • No. 8
