ooney Makes Freedom Plea at Embassy Theatre
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
Mooney Makes Freedom Plea at Embassy Theatre The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley QUITE A LONG FELLOW •PATIENCE." BV Gilbert and SulUvan. Mttton A borne' production at tKe St....
...By Paul tlayee...
...I On the same program we have | the latest newsreel manifestation | of the Hitler regime with the ; recording in sight and sound of the I famous Nazi Book Bonfire in Berlin in which volumes of Lenin, I Marx, Ludwig, Remarque, Mann, I Heine, and lesser literary lights were fed to the dames to the sound of song and music...
...With the manner of a lawyer, Mooney presents his case with cold, stark logic...
...On June 4th, at Hie Union Audi torium, 229 West 48th St., Maestro j Achilles Anelli will present his artist students in scenes from "Aida," with Charlotte A. Gillard singing the title role...
...In - special Embassy picture, we hear Grisch present his side of the story and also play a farewell melody, appropriately Tschaikovsky's "Sonata Melancolique," on the 236-year-old instrument...
...With the background of Saint Quentin Prison and his barred cell, this film makes a remarkable record of the cause celebre which has stirred the world for the pant Seventeen years...
...believed that this is the first time that the role has been sung by a Negro woman in a white cast...
...This is a venture in race relations as well as an artistic entertainment...
...This performance will be staged for Reconciliation Trips...
...Among them are Lanny Ross and the blarkfsce comedy stars Molasses and January...
...Famous Prisons* Deliver...
...Brown Skin Aida in White Cast Many outstanding Negro artists have qualified for this role and received favorable criticisms for their portrayal of this unhappy maid...
...DANCE-DRAMA 'IN THE PROPHECIES: THE SECRET...
...Starring- Appeal for Liberty or Death in San Francisco Jail Marking the first time that a man convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment is permitted to make his appeal to the public for consideration of his case, the Embassy News Reel Theatre is presenting this week the exclusive talking picture of Tom Mooney in the San Francisco jail making a stirring plea for freedom or death of the charges for which he was incarcerated in lillfi...
...Fly by Night" Due Wednesday The forthcoming production of "Fly by Night," by Richard K. Fiournoy, which opens next Wed* nesday night, May 31, at the Bel* mont Theatre, should not be confused with the play which once bore a similar title (later it was changed to "The Barker"), The latter was produced in New York several years ago Some people are laboring under the impression that the original play is now being revived...
...But it is...
...Lanny Ross, Wesley Eddy Stay on at Hie Fox—"Hallo Sister" on Screen A strong holiday vaudeville bill at the Fox supplements the efforts of Wesley Eddy, master of ceremonies, in displaying additional phases of his versatility in this his twelfth consecutive week at the Fox...
...The first act, with language often poetic, often touched with humor, carries through various symbols of the Orient the guest for the eternal secret of all things, caught as it is in the conflict between science and beauty (intellect and emotion), most nearly glimpsed, yet most elusive, in love...
...last week she and Paul Hayes danced and spoke their way through two acts of the letter's devious and arresting dance-drama of yesterday, today, and all the tomorrows...
...He offers the well known facts of his conviction and then submits the unanswerable argument that "if innocent, he should be freed...
...Jamee, Have "Patience" my children and you shall hear Ad merry a lark as for many a year ( Broadway's been amused by...
...but if guilty, hung...
...William Goldburg Productions, Yiddish motion picture producers, have completed work on the first of a soric-: of talkies in English dealing with Jewish life and problems...
...Another interesting sidelight of the German situation is found in the demand for the return of a $25,000 violin loaned by a German firm to Grisch Goluboff, the 10-year-old prodigy...
...At Oortha't Studio, (116 Wett 65'ft SI...
...It thrusts at pretense As a chickadee sitting atop a tall fence Thrusts its notes at the sky...
...This organization was founded by the Rev...
...Ruth Nugent, Frank Shannon and Paul Guilfoyle are the featured players in "Fly by Night," which is being staged by Murray Phillips...
...The second act, with more sardonic tones of humor and nearer satire, shows in New York today the struggle of the soul of the artist amidst material needs, brings home, that is, the same opposition ef the body and the spirit...
...The third act (not yet written) would please ua if, like cinema super imposures, it somehow showed us at once the contemporary and the timeless...
...meantime, Dorsha and Paul Hayes give moving expression to this satiric fantasy in dialogue and dance...
...Tonight Dorsha in presenting a group of solo dances of this season's contriving...
...But that is to be...
...The film, titled "Victims of Persecution," is now ready for release...
...Vivian Fay, dancing star of the late George White's "Melody" and "Varieties...
...Clarence V. Howell, well and favorably known in Harlem...
...On the screen the Fox is presenting "Hello Sister," the romance of a boy and girl on Broadway, lonely In the midst of millions, but finding happiness and despair in each other after meeting via the "pickup" route...
...And the audience's laughter Comes echoing back from each roof-beam and rafter, (Until you don't know just which fellow is dafter, rhe gay lyric Gilbert or Sullivan whose runes most effectively drive out the blues, With' their merriment lightsome and dalliance gay), fcs pleasant a show as you'll find on Broadway, With Danforth to stan' forth as comedy's chief (Though the entire cast ie a comic relief) Ku the dragoons and poets and milk-maids combine Jo rouse your impatience till the end of the line Brings the wit's clever turn, or the music's bright rhythm:— Long will theatre-lovers have this couple with 'em...
...Holiday Mats for "Another Language" and "Wise Child" There will be a special Decora* tion Day matinee next week for "It's a Wise Child" at the Hudson Theatre, and also for "Another Language...
Vol. 15 • May 1933 • No. 21
