Firebird: Mother-Love and Mystery at the Empire
"Firebird": Mother-Love and Mystery at the Empire The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley WHERE THERE IS SMOKE "FIREBIRD" By Lajot Zilahy At tht Empire. From the Hungarian comes • suave...
...Toacamni in Praise of "Teatro Dai Piccoli" Arturo Toscanini, who is rarely known to indorse theatricals or performers thereof, made the following declaration concerning a forthcoming attraction on Broadway: " I am very glad to learn that Pod i ere * is coming to this country in December...
...Some of the sequences are in natural color...
...At the Booth (Samuel French, publither, $2.00...
...She confesses to the murder...
...The atory Is a stormy-plotted drama affording her opportunity for a full display of her emotional ability...
...Chopin's "Les Sylphides...
...In this picture Williamson has photographed m a ny strange fish, man-eating shark, a diver turned "pressure drunk" at the sea bottom and a thrilling fight between a diver and an octopus...
...and Judith Anderson makes her role ao coldly correct, so well-fitted to the part, and Henry Stephenson so suavely seconds her, that the society study outweighs in power and value the element of mystery, and gives a temporary glow to the stir of the evening...
...STILL ELOQUENT "Another Language...
...and Debussy's "The Afternoon of a Faun...
...With the return of Dorothy Stickney to the cast, I listened again to "Another Language," and found that a summer's passing has left it as natural and as diverting as ever...
...Every episode in the Wililamson film is authentic and none of the bits were staged...
...Call Her Savage" is an adaptation by Edwin Burke from Tiffany Thayer's novel of that name and was directed by John Francis Dillon...
...Lloyd Bacon directed...
...In addition the stage show includes: Maxine Lewis, Olga and Mishka, the Balalaika Sextette, Flaschette, Virginia Peck, and Tom and Betty Wonders...
...25 An international Dance Festival will be inaugurated at the New Yorker Theatre by S. Hurok on December 25th, for a period of two week, when he will present the following dance events in repertory: Mary Wigman and her group of twelve dancers from Dresden, to be seen here for the first time...
...Rockabye" at the Mayfair "Rockabye," starring Constance Bennett and featuring Joel McCrea and Paul Lukas, will be the attraction at the Mayfair TheatreStarting today...
...By means of an especially i n vented utbe, Williamson may ride along on the ocean floor and p h o t o graph the mysteries of the m o n sters of the world beneath the ocean surface...
...The company includes Tashamira, Jacques Cartier, Randolph Sawyer, Richard Stuart and Claire Lea, in addition to Gluck-Sandor and Felicia Sorel...
...and, even thus boldly sprung upon us, it is inconclusive...
...The famous actor, having made swift love to the high-born lady, dies...
...The Workers' Theatre has been actively carrying ahead its program for a drama to rise out of the industrial and social conditions of this country, and - still Wants good plays in the field...
...Interesting Under-Sea Film Held Over at Cameo "With Williamsmi* Beneath the Sea," a motion picture photographed almost entirely on the b o t tom of the sea, is holding over at the Cameo Theatre...
...The Piccoli Theatre will b e in-* stalled in the Lyric Theatre o n December 22nd with a c a s t of eight hundred super-puppets, o n e thousand costumes, three hundred stage settings, and a corps o f twentyeight singers and technicians, Hurok to Present Wiener Ssingerknaben" Next Week The Wiener Sangerknaben—the Choir Boys of Vienna—will make their second New York appearance at the Lyric Theatre Sunday aftern o o n , December 11th, i n a program of church and B e c u l a r works as well as the Mozart l i t t l e opera "Bastien and Bastienne...
...Gilbert Roland, Monroe Owsley, Anthony Jewitt, Thelma Todd, Estelle Taylor, V'illard Robertson, support the flaming-haired star...
...Mary Wigman — Escudero — I Others—in International Dance Festival Dec...
...of course, she is not guilty...
...From the Hungarian comes • suave study of high society disguised as a mystery play...
...Kameradschaft" (Comradeship) has been selected by the Committee of Exceptional Photoplays of the National Board of Review as one of the outstanding pictures of the month...
...This film, which is based on an actual mine disaster at Courrieres in 1906, where 1,400 miners lost their lives, has been rewarded the Gold Medal for the best picture of this year by the London Faculty of Arts...
...some one in Her Excellency's apartment has been visiting the actor nightly...
...in a tense scene the husband grows gradually convinced of her guilt...
...Franken has caught Clearly in sharp focus a significant and as tragic as humorous aspect of life...
...The plot, the rebellion of the youngest against the tyranny of the family, is endlessly fertile...
...Workers' Theatre Opens The new season of the Workers' Theatre, in the Rand School Auditorium, will open on Dec...
...Alas, the end, though not a real surprise, is not prepared for as it should be...
...By Rote Franken...
...Reading this story of the Hallams, whose union gives strength to their conviction that they are "always right," reproduces the feeling that Mrs...
...Frank's play of social injustice will be repeated on Dec...
...16, with "Cause," a play by Leonard Frank...
...Uday Shan-Kar and his company pf Hindu dancers and musicians, who will make their first American appearance in a series of dance performances depicting religious, nature, and peasant dances of India, and Vicente Escudero, who will appear with his ensemble...
...They are now en route to New York after a western tour...
...E. Brown's New Film at the Winter Garden Supporting Brown snd Miss Rogers are Farina, of the Our -Gang comedies, Walker Walker, Sheila Terry, Preston Foster, Guinn Williams, and Harry Gribbon...
...A pictorial treat in the f o r i* of a Magic Carpet called Rickash$ Rythm, and the Fox Movietone News rounds out the program...
...and there is no end of recognition In the scenes of "in-law life...
...Bob West returns to the Fox organ console, Sam Jack Kaufman and the Fox Playboy Band are the support of a funny stage show titled Charlie Foy's Bughouse, starring Edie Foy's jesting son Charlie Foy and his merry gang of mad men...
...The American people will be able to enjoy what I consider to be the finest entertainment on the contemporary stage...
...Clara Bow in "Call Her Savage" at Fox Brooklyn.— Bob West, Others on Stage Film fans who have awaited ClaraBow's new picture will have their chance to view it when "Call Her Savage" opens today at the Fox Brooklyn...
...Kameradschaft" Voted Exceptional Film "Kameradschaft" ( C o m r a d e - ship), G. W. Pabst's famous film epic of the mines, is to be held over for a fourth week, commencng tomorrow, Tuesday, December 6th, at the Europe Theatre...
...10th, at 8:30, for the premiere of two original American ballets, "Phobia," by A. Lehman Engel, and "Tempo" (Dance Marathon) by Herbert Kingsby...
...Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegel...
...But there is a sort of Grand Hotel movement that lends a measure of interest to the hall scenes of the apartment house, with minor figures in clever character moments...
...The Dance Center Grows The new season of the Dance Center, where Gluck-Sandor and Felicia Sovel have been developing the American ballet, carries the dancers to the Barbizon-Plaxa on Dec...
...In addition to this program, the Dance Center announces four other ballets to be given this season: de Falle's .'TheThree-Cornered Hat...
Vol. 14 • December 1932 • No. 23
