Show Boat Will Give You a Great Show, at the Casino
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"Show Boat" Will Give You a Great Show, at the Casino The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley PLEASURE JOURNEY "SIloir IlO.ti;' Musical comedy fr n/ij, the navel by Ldna ierber Mu.\ie by...
...it Is hardly what should be shown in these early days...
...The early plays will be crude—but if one were to pile the ill-made plays produced on Broadway, one on top of the other, they would reach the spot I'd like to send their authors to...
...At the Rand School Auditorium by the Workers' 'Theatre...
...This is the, third audible film produced by Rene Clair in the Tobis studios of Paris, following "Sou lea Toits de Paris" and "Le Million...
...Rene Clair's "A Nous La Liberte" Held Over At the Europa Theatre Rene Clair's social satire, "A Nous Ia Liberte," has played to "standing room only" every night of its engagement at the Europa and enters the third week of its engagement commencing next Tuesday...
...The story, based on the Max Brand best seller of the same name, is that of a hard-riding, quick-triggered cowboy...
...During his absence Mix and his equally famous pony, Tony, have been appearing with a circus...
...If Mr...
...for the work of these players is at the core of a great hope and a great source of both propaganda and beauty, and those who are to carry it through must, in a sense, be wedded to their tasks, be possessed by a life-time devotion...
...The story carries from the Mississippi of the 1880's, through the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, to the Mississippi in our own day and age...
...Arthur Schwartz, who wrote the music for "The Band Wagon," Is the composer...
...The symphonies will appear in this sequence on the following dates: Nos...
...Bvolt and lyrics by Usear llammerstein 11 At the Casino...
...Sophie Braslau, contralto...
...and advantage Is taken of it to gambol rapidly through a delightful evening...
...Plays must rise out of the call for them, must spring from the workers through their own impulsions finding avenues of expression, from a stage open to truth, free from the restrictions of the Broadway theatre...
...Rossi's scenic effects were excellent...
...Yet this dear old hokum, set in the midst of a traveling "show boat" company of players, carries sufficient interest, especially when Dennis King is suave In the role of the lovable wastrel gambler...
...In the meantime, all who are Interested In fun that is fighting, in art that la social betterment, in the theatre and the Socialist cause, will write for Information to the Friends of the Workers Theatre, 7 East 15th street, New York...
...The two performances of the Ninth Symphony will be given with the assistance of Nina Morgana, soprano...
...In truth, the phrase I have just used Is not Inappropriate...
...Flying Colors** to Be Max Gordon's Next Max Gordon announces that his forthcoming revue will be entitled "Flying Colors...
...Claudia Dell, Earle Foxe, Stanley Fields and Zasu Pitts are prominent in the supporting cast...
...Tom Mix Makes Talkie Debut at RKO 58th New Yorkers will have their first opportunity to hear Tom Mix from the screen when "Destry Rides Again," his first picture in three years, is presented at RKO Proctor's 58th Street Theatre today...
...The effective scenes by Joseph Urban, the humor , effectively borne by Charles Win-nlnger, the lilting music and good songs "Can't Help Loving That Man," "Why Do I Love You...
...All of the nine symphonies will be given, as well as such other works as the 'Egmont," "Coriolanus," "Lenore" No...
...The direction did not help to remove these defects, though Mr...
...Show Boat" Will Give You a Great Show, at the Casino The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley PLEASURE JOURNEY "SIloir IlO.ti;' Musical comedy fr n/ij, the navel by Ldna ierber Mu.\ie by Jerome Kent...
...By Walter Jiasenclever...
...Zieg-feld had scheduled "Hot Cha" for the same scale of prices, he'd not now be withdrawing it...
...5, 6, 3, 2, 4, 7, 1, 9, and 8 on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, June 28 and 30, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, July 5 and 7, Tuesday and Friday evenings, July 12 and 15, on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, July 19 and 20 (Ninth Symphony) and Monday evening, July 25...
...We want our Workers Theatre to help point the way...
...8 Overture, etc...
...but a/ times to the eyes that see Its irunhce absurdity, that can give us such fantastic extravagance as "A Nous, La Liberte" presents on the film, that we can laugh also at the weaknesses, and condemn the excesses, among ourselves...
...Taking the will for the deed, as in these early stages we must, we found a good evening's, amusement in the Workers Theatre production last week-end...
...Hasenclever's play might fit in a Workers Theatre repertory, as a diversion from more solid dramatic material, somewhere in the midst of a full season...
...On the nights when the Beethoven symphonies are given the programs will not be completely confined to the music of Beethoven, but will be balanced and lightened by compositions of other composers...
...True, the play (either in itself or in translation) is weak in dialogue, vague In its comic effects, and blurred in its satire...
...hit of two seasons, and Paul Robeson singing "Old Man River"—borne along with good humor and enough of a plot and Helen Morgan and Dennis King and Edna May O.lver and the lively and lyrical Norma Terris, and a chorus of Ziegfeld's best beauties (not to mention a swift and symmetrical surge of Negro lassies): all this, and popular prices, make the evening one that will be repeated by many through the summer...
...This the Workers Theatre must provide...
...Van Hoogstraten to Present Beethoven Cycle at the Stadium This Summer...
...Crudity (as In the novels of Dreiser) may be balanced by power and clear vision...
...The chorus will be that of the Schola Cantorum of New York...
...The Hall Johnson Negro Choir has been re-engaged for the Stadium and will make its fifth consecutive summer's appearance on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, August 2 and 3. Tel] them yon saw their advertisement in The New Leader...
...The plot of "Show Boat"—do you care?—deals with a sweet young lass who marries a gambler, whb' gives her a child and leaves her flat...
...But where are these players to find their plays...
...Various plans to link the activities of the Workers Theatre witb active campaigning, by street corner platform, by radio, etc., are under way, and will be announced in these columns...
...WHAT FROM THE WORKERS THEATRE ? "GENTLEMAN WANTED...
...Russia is finding these things in Its theatre —after the revolution...
...And the acting was enjoyable because most in the audience knew most on the stage, and were ready to take them for better or for worse...
...and also the strong voice of righteous indignation...
...We need clear vision turned upon our capitalist system — not always the solemn gaze, studiously, condemning...
...Hall Johnson Negro Choir Reengaged Willem van Hobgstraten, who has just conducted for his second successive season the Beethoven revival at Bonn, will present a Beethoven cycle during his four weeks at the Stadium concerts this summer...
...Henri Marchand, Raymond Cor-dy and Rolls France have the leading parts In "A Nous la Liberte," and the music was written by George Auric, the noted French composer...
...The production will be in charge of Howard Diets, who will also write the lyrics and collaborate on the sketches...
...Paul Althouse, tenor, and Nelson Eddy, baritone...
...A sweep that permits costume and color...
...We need a sense of humor, which Is a sense of proportion...
...The radical theatre In France began with Shakespeare...
...The return of the tremendously successful musical comedy "Show Boat," with much of the original cast, has scored as instant and as worthy a success...
...Strangely original, you acclaim...
Vol. 13 • May 1932 • No. 22
