Norman Thomas-"Kuhle Wampe" on Cameo Screen
Norman Thomas—"Kuhle Wampe" on Cameo Screen The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley PAID IN FULL FOR SERVICES RENDERED." By W. Somerset Maugham. At the Booth. When a playwright wishes...
...The return of Nathan Becker" will be held over for an indefinite period...
...but too much weakens, and less insistence brings more conviction...
...Thomas are Hendrik Van Loon, Mrs...
...In 1913 it was founded as a week-end camp...
...Maugham is bitter, sincere, and powerful...
...It's a powerful play...
...Besides the cast, 4.000 workers of the Labor Sports Union participated in the filming of the sport** sequence in the picture, The German labor songs were sung by the chorus of the Berlin State Opera...
...The previous record was held by "Zwel Herzen," which ran at the Europe from October 1990 until September 1981...
...Lincoln Steffens, Edward Dahlberg, American author who was asssnlted by the Nazis...
...In the Cameo oresentation there will be English titles I throughout the film...
...Those who appear in the symposium with Mr...
...It is an historic home of poverty...
...a drama of the German unemployed...
...we retort within ourselves that the "lost generation"—already amply portrayed in novel and drama—has not been so utterly unable to find itself...
...Still more dangerous is the task of using a family to sufh up a social order...
...and this is the danger before a playwright with a thesis...
...Showing the typical lif* of a worker's family in a gloomy Berlin tenement, their eviction and subsequent removal to "Kuhle Wampe," and the growth of the struggle against hunger, the film moves from the bleak drama of despair to the epic of hope...
...there is less justification when a miscellaneous assortment of ludicrous or tragic happenings affects every guest invited to "Dinner at Eight...
...This looks too much like building a play around a scheme, instead of out of life...
...it seems much less natural for Nina Leeds, in "Strange Interlude," to be associated with a man in every possible relationship: father, ideal of her dreams, husband, lover, friend, and son...
...Maugham, better known for other things, in "For Services Rendered" brings these five types on the stage, and blames them all on the war...
...For Services Rendered," these folks have certainly been paid in full...
...Man Bites Dog" is the farce about tabloid journalism "Return of Nathan Becker" Continues at Europe "The Return of Nathan Becker," the first all-Jewish talking and singing picture produced in Soviet Russia, has established a new all* time week-end record of admissions st the Europe Theatre...
...after the war it became the permanent residence of many workers unable to pay rent...
...Strong as the writing is, and at times deeply moving (as when Fay Bainter and Henry Daniell enact the scene where the sister, already half-mad, proposes to and is rejected by pie naval officer on his way to suicide...
...we are not drawn to the author's thesis, but repelled, by his own excess...
...Kuhle Wampe" is the name of a tent colony outside Berlin where the evicted unemployed live...
...Home of Foreign Films Offer* Interesting Program Norman Thomas will disease Hitler and Fascism in a special symposium on "Hitler," which the Cameo Theatre will offer, starting this Saturday, as s special added attraction to the feature film "Kuhle Wampe: Whither Germany...
...Perets Hirshbein, Clarence Hathaway and Amos Pinrhot...
...The blind man's mother is about to die from cancer, so that the curtain falls on a man left helpless and alone...
...Man Bites Dog" Opens al Lyceum Theatre Tuesday Instead of opening next Monday, as previously announced, "Man Bites Dog" will give its opening night performanee at the Lyceum Theatre on next Tuesday evening, April 26th...
...When a playwright wishes to capture a whole society in a drama, he runs considerable risk...
...Msny of the tough breaks that one family can get are piled together in "A Saturday Night" This is a concentration we may grant, a dramatic convention...
...Kuhle Wampe" was the last artistic expression of the German proletariat before the rise of Hitlerism and it was the first to be banned...
...Hertha Thiele, a German screen star, who won international renown for her performance in "Maedchen In Uniform," plays tho leading role in this film and Ernest Busch, who was seen here in "Kameradschnft," plays opposite her...
...To balance these^come i Woman made mad from sex-starvation after her sweetheart is killed, another ruined by/a war-marriage, andi a third, frightened by the insanity and the loneliness around her, turning to a wealthy married man she docs not love...
...When the Davis family, in "We, the People," is hit by the depression, there spreads out from them, as ripples when a stone drops in a pool, a stir in every field of American life...
...Today it is the site of hundreds of dispossessed families...
...Peachum's beggars' outfitting shop has a life-size exhibit of the five chief types of human misery...
...English dlslogue titles have been superimposed on the film to make it understandable to non-Jewish speaking audiences...
...It is much simpler to show an "average" family, and let the audience at "Another Language" or "Three-Cornered Moon" exclaim "How like my relatives I" When the fsmily becomes not average, but "outstanding," the trouble starts, as we see when a doomed line of the ancient Greeks is modernized into "Mourning Becomes Eleetra...
...All in one play we have a man blinded in battle, another driven to drink, a third committing suicide because he cant get back to civil life from the navy...
...In "The Three-Penny Opera," Mr...
...It is a drama of the unemployed...
...It is this traditional center of unemployment that the producers of "Kuhle Wampe" have made the core of their film...
Vol. 15 • April 1933 • No. 16
