Zugfeld's "Hot-ChaP!" A Fiesta of Beauty and Song
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Zugfeld's "Hot-ChaP!" A Fiesta of Beauty and Song The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley COLOR AND SOUND "HOT-CHA!" Ziegfeld production of the Brown and Henderson mutual comedy. At...
...Zone Grey's "South Sea Adventures" at Cameo Zane Grey's battle with a giant marlin (sword fish), weighing more than 1,300 pounds and finally subdued off the coast of New Zealand, Is but one of the thrilling episodes in his latest feature "South Sea Adventures," the feature attraction at the Cameo Theatre...
...When one considers the handicaps of a small, uneqidpped stage, and the lack of funds, the Workers' Theatre production of "Dole Brothers" becomes an achievement worthy of enthusiasm...
...Pioneer efforts in the field of labor drama have too frequently been exposed to public view while the intentions were better than the finished product...
...Paul Haakon in Dance Recital April 10th Paul Haakon, gifted young dancer and protege of the late lime...
...for he botches his way in genial nonsense all through...
...The first production of this group of Socialist artists was seen last Friday and Saturday night at the Rand School...
...Starting In a New York night club, the party overflowers to Mexico, where colorful backgrounds set the stage for swinging tunes and gay dances— not to mention Bert Lahr and the bull-fight...
...Romance Sentimentale" happens to be the only Russian Eisenstein film which does not deal with the usual propaganda of the Soviet screen productions...
...All hail the workers' theatre movement...
...Kmc, Natasha Vysevlod, a Russian emigre living In Paris, makes her soreen debut under Eisenstein's direction...
...But this is because in addition to being propaganda the play can stand on Its own merits as a work of art...
...This film was produced by Eisenstein and his photographer, Tisse, about one year ago in Paris before their recent visit to the United States...
...HotCha...
...E . L New Eisenstein Film at Europa Together With "Theft of Mono Lisa" As a supplementary short feature on the program of the German musical film, "The Theft of the Mona Lisa," the Europa will present "Romance Sentimeutale," the first sound film produced by Serge Eisenstein, the famous Russian director of "Potemkin," "Ten Days That Shook the World" and "Old and New...
...Presented at the Rand School by the Workers Theatre...
...The bull (and other live beasts) are only incidental, but not to mention Bert Lahr would be to omit the chief fun of hue amusing evening...
...Two highly critical capacity audiences saw a production that carried a difficult play for more than two hours with rare minutes of monotony...
...but that is like comparing mince pie or plum pudding with fruit cocktail...
...This cannot be said of the Workers' Theatre...
...It is an answer to the complaints of playgoers that propaganda plays must be boring...
...And after we get through hailing it, let's give it the support it must have to thrive— the support of intelligent audiences who are sick of bed-room farces, leg-shows, crook melodramas and Harvard heroes usurping, the boards where living characters projecting vital Ideas should be...
...Duschlnsky's grim play of the disintegration of a jobless worker's family, done into facile English by Anna Bercowitz, might well be a model for workers' theatres...
...But there Is enough glory for the players— Emll Katz, Jean Weidman, Beulah Kashins, Edward Bobbley, S. K. Mlrt, Manuel Agtan, Morris Klein, Alex Kastcnbaurn, Albert Agran, Jean Greeman, and the Indefatigable publicity aide, Henry V. 01neek--to go around...
...Play Girl" at Warner And B'klyn Strand "Play Girl," with Loretta Young and Norman Foster, is at the Warner Theatre and Brooklyn Strand Theatres...
...A Play of Unemployment...
...First honors should go to David Rossi who directed the play...
...and Bert's 'Toodfeos," Marjorie White, is a gay personage...
...A Fiesta of Beauty and Song The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley COLOR AND SOUND "HOT-CHA...
...Lupe Velez adds a piquant sauce, with her swift and flery personality...
...By Richard Duschinsky...
...Is a delightful cocktail of mixed fresh fruit THE WORKERS THEATRE ARRIVES "DOLE BROTHERS...
...New Artists' Gallery Draws Large Crowds The response of New York art enthusiasts to the recent opening of the Midtown Galleries Cooperative Exhibitions at 659 Fifth avenue has been flattering indeed...
...In addition to the high level of quality maintained, it seems to be the diversity of styles represented, with something for every taste, that has attracted so many to the galleries—a cross-section of modern American art, as it were...
...The group of over thirty-five painters and sculptors who have joined in this cooperative venture, like artists the world over, desire their works to be seen by the greatest number of people possible...
...The Workers' Theatre Is ambitious, as well it needs to be to accomplish the great task ahead of i t It has a program the final goal of which is a string of workers' theatres throughout the nation, federated in a single institution devoted to advancing the cause of Socialism...
...The piece has some sort of a plot, with Buddy Rogers the young boy who temporarily forgets his dear one In the hot land, until the bull-fight brings him back to his senses, and they all unite to contlnue the cafe under the ownership of "Alky" Bert Lahr...
...At 4he Ziegfeld For generous beauty and vivid flow of color it will be hard to beat the Joseph Urban settings, and the many costumes of the pleasing dancers of Ziegfeld's "Hot-Cha...
...Elenore Terris will assist him...
...Pavlova, who also worked with Mikail Mordkln and Michel Fokine, having been unanimously acclaimed by both public and press for his dance recitals here two seasons ago, will give another on April 10th at the Cort Theater...
...Through this plot surge good songs, notably "You can Make My Life a Bed of Roses," and a chorus of girls as pretty as the front-row boys could desire...
...The struggle between this ferocious monster of the sea and Grey, which kept up for hours, is only one of the many thrilling and dramatic highlights of this picture replete with spine tingling adventures with denizens of the deep...
...has been compared with "Of Thee I Sing" and "Face The Music...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 14
