Peasant Wins Over Bourgeois In "The Good Earth"
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Peasant Wins Over Bourgeois In "The Good Earth" The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley PEASANT INTO BOURGEOIS -THE GOOD HAKTH." By Owen and Donald Davie from the novel by Pearl S. Buck. At...
...She makes him s good wife, being provident and shrewd, and, above all, attached to the land...
...He is ready to sell some of his land—now entrusted wholly to his old friend Ching, once an independent neighbor, now a submissive overseer—in order to travel with the young and selfish "second wife...
...Starting today "Goona-Goona" will start a seventh consecutive week run at the Cameo Theatre...
...For iU new season, The Theatre Guild has art on stage the simple story of Wans Lung, the poor farmer who becomes as a great lord, winning great lands but losing his soul—because be forgets the soil...
...and from the looting of that man's house O-lan hides jewels for her husband Wang...
...Goona-Goona" Remains 7th Week at Cameo Smashing a nine-year record for hold-overs is not stopping "GoonaGoona," the Balinese film produced by Armand Denis and Andre Roosevelt The film continues on...
...Simply and clearly as the play pictures the change of peasant into bourgeois—a universal transformation, it bears also more direct pictures of Chinese attitude...
...This record checked up by "Goona-Goona" makes it tne longest run at popular prices now playing on Broadway...
...The inexpressive yet shrewd wsys of this peasant woman, close ot the earth her mother and drawing from the soil Antean strength to endure, give a power to the play beyond its story, and lift it to a noteworthy significance among the season's offerings...
...On the stage will be "Armida" in person, also Bernle and Walker, Anything Can Happen, Henri Therrien, the famous Roxy tenor, and the Fox Beauties...
...only the death of O-lan recalls him to his simplicity, and his honest and intimate contact with the noil...
...The purchase of so much land that he must hire hands changea the peasant Withdrawing from the soil, he takes on the ways of the petty landlords, grows less kindly and tolerant and begins to sp^nd bis money on clothes and concubines...
...Famine driving them to the big city of kto South, they have the melodramatic luck to have a fright ased millionaire shower them with geld...
...Bauer, a scientist (George Bauer), of a formula which enables him to revive the dead and extend their life for a period of six hours...
...At the Guild...
...despite hard times their property grows...
...Until the wife who has spurned him by living saves him by dying...
...Sam Jack Kaufman and his Joy Bsnd, and Bob Hamilton and Rosa Rio at the twin organs...
...The scenea and the ceremonies add color to the story...
...While Claude Rains, aa the farmer, and Henry Travers, as his father, give performances on a par with the present—and usual —effective Guild setting and direction, Alia Nazimova, as the wife, rises to a creative presentation profoundly simple yet stirringly true...
...Six Hoars la lira" Start Warne^ rWter gjbgjfag Starting today, Warner Baxter, the popular draraeti actor, comes to the Fox Brooklyn Theatre in his bow vehicle, "Six Hoars to Live," with Miriam Jordan, John Boles and a cast of favorites Including George Marlon, Beryl Mercer, Irene Ware, HalliweU Hobbes, Edwin Maxwell, John Davidson, Edward McWade and Dewey Robinson...
...Six Hours to Live" is an adaptation of the original story "Auf Wiedersehen" by Gordon Morris and Morton Barteaux, arranged for the screen by Bradley King...
...Nor are O-ten'a arrangements that her little dumb daughter shall die with her, less touching...
...bet there ia poignancy in the wife, alone on the inner floor ia the agony of birth-throes, while the men pound the door to ssk what alone ton rerns them: "'« it S SOB 1 Ia it a son...
...The story deals with the discovery by Prof...
...The poor Wang Lung is given, to wife, a slave from the Great House of Hwang...
Vol. 14 • October 1932 • No. 18
