Shaw in a Series of Brilliant Speeches at the Guild Theatre
Shaw in a Series of Brilliant Speeches at the Guild Theatre The Week on the Stage *TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD." new flay by Bernard Shaw, P» tented by the Theatre Guild at t. GmlJ Theatre, IN A...
...Tiomkin was one of tbe first composers to be interested In a national Russian ballet...
...Nevertheless Shaw seems to have found enough substantial truth with which to crowd two hours of his latest play...
...Theft of Monti Lisa" Continues at Europa "The Thaft of tbe l i o n s Lisa", German musical screen comedy-, drama, is now repeating its European success in New York...
...It is with interest therefore that one contemplates the announcement that Mr...
...George of the modern drama baa cast aside most rules of play construction in his newest comedy...
...Willy Font, well-remembered from "Zwel Herzen" and "Das Lied 1st Aua", plays bis first dramatic role, and Trude von Moio, former member of Max Reinhard's Theatre School, co-stars with him in ber first appearance in films...
...There is only enough of a plot to give his characters their cues as to when to start talking and when to let off...
...Paris has also acclaimed Tiomkin as a Clever composer, as well as a brilliant interpreter of the ultra-moderns...
...He also served as musical ambassador for George Gershwin by introducing the letter's "Concerto in F." In adapting his classical training and background to the modern medium, Tiomkin has shown a comprehension of the spirit of the Ume by reflecting lt In his music, which cannot help but provide a stimulating and progressive influence in the theatre...
...Too True to Be Good" has been dubbed byJShaw a series of lectures...
...Beauty and the Boss" At B'klyn Strand "Beauty and the Boss" with a cast headed by Marion Marsh and Warren William will be the feature picture at the Brooklyn Warner Strand Theatre starting today...
...At one point, his wise burglar hero even mounts a soapbox— in this case the end of a bed—to address the audience in the best oratorical manner...
...E. L. unitii Tiomkin, a New Broadway Personality A new note, and what bas been acknowledged a refreshing one, has been supplied to the Broadway stage by Dlmitri Tiomkin, one of the outstanding pianists and composers of tbe modem school...
...Those who like ideas with their plays win not cavil at Shaw's throwing the ordinary theatre1 technique o v e r b o a r d . A sheltered and bored daughter ot the rich, a lusty chamber maid, a disillusioned patriot turned burglar, a mother who bates her daughter but fears to say so and a father who dislikes his son and makes it very plain, a British soldier who arranges high decorations of honor for n general who lores water colors more than tbe paint of war,— each have their turn In delivering Shaw's stinging epigrams and biting truths...
...Broadway has already lauded examples of bis orchestral work in the Albertina Ranch ballets, "BoleroFandango" and "Illusion In White", which graced the T o l lies" earlier in tbe season...
...It has been faintly damned «s too talky, Shaw's semi-apology being cited as corroborating evidence...
...One of the most interesting episodes of bis career was tba period he spent as a director In the first theatre of the Soviet Government To Have American Premiere at the Cameo Next Wednesday Evening An interesting scene from the latest Soviet talkie, "Golden Mountains," which begins an indefinite run at the Cameo next week...
...In his piano recitals In that city be revealed himself a gallant disciple of Ravel, Prokoneff, Stravinsky, Monpu and Mulhaud...
...Ernest Cossart and i n k Shannon, the general and c private, and all that is to be .sired...
...It ia true that the St...
...His aim continues perfect And there is more of consistency In "Too True to Be Good" than Shaw bas displayed in his public gyrations of recent years, what with his sudden fondness after a life-time of Socialism for the brute force rule of Mussolini...
...Mothers, war, religion and upper class Ufa are Shaw's chief targets...
...Beatrice Lillie as the chamber maid become nurse, Hope Williams, given a chance to act after years of shoulder-shrugging lt across the stage, and Hugh Sinclair as the burglar meet the demands in a thoroughly pleasing inner...
...new flay by Bernard Shaw, P» tented by the Theatre Guild at t. GmlJ Theatre, IN A thrilling harangue ths draws the final curtain dow on "Too True to Be Good," one o Bernard Shaw's principal mouth pieces, exclaims in a mood of trou bled defiance that he must go or preaching, forever preaching "evei though I have nothing to say...
...s< eloquent is Shaw's peroration tba moat audiences will no doubt be convinced that the proper attitude of the day la one of doubt and skepticism, with no acceptable truths to which a worried soul may cling yet discovered...
...Too True to Be Good," as can be seen, makes strong'demands oh its players...
...This film, which opened Tuesday (March 38th) at the Europe, has played to "standing room'' in the first week of its engagement and will be held over indefinitely...
...Tiomkin together with Albertina Reach and Ernst LUbitach are to sponsor a musical production...
...It is an adaptation of "The Church Mouse" reigning Broadway stage success "HELL DIVERS" AT CAPITOL Direct from a successful four months' engagement at the Astor Theatre—"Hell Divers", co-starring Wallace Beery and Clark Gable, will be shown for the first time at popular prices at tbe Capitol Theatre for the week beginning Friday (April 8th...
...It Is this interchange of talents which makes them so mutually helpful to each other's work...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 15
