Shaw and Pirandello Ticklingly Entangled
Shaw and Pirandello Ticklingly Entangled The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley A LITERARY LARK "FOOLSCAP." A comedy by Gen-naro Cured and Eduardo Cian-nelli. At the Timee Square. The...
...and admission prices will be the usual Cameo scale...
...Nor is the story close to western tales: of an ascetic youth whom "the facts of life" send Wandering, until he goes through a second wedding ceremony, is claimed by two wives, and declares he cannot say who he is, and a council of rabbis announces ha is a "gilgul", or wandering lost spirit 1 Those who know Yiddish are enjoying this melodrama, overflowing' the theatre in which its effects are given the usual Jewish emphasis...
...comes over...
...There ere vividness and life in the Jewish stage overemphasis...
...Such foolery as the first act affords continued through the evening would be genius...
...At the Yiddish Art...
...Yoshe Kalb" is an effective melodrama, with many amusing snapshots of Jewish types...
...In addition to Healy and his stooges, a strong bill balances the program, which includes such talent as Caroline Andres, the girl who opened the new Music Hall...
...Frederic Worlock at Shaw could fool reporters when G.B.S...
...The producers, who must have been aware only e limited audience would revel in "Foolscap", are to be congratulated on their courage in presenting this engaging piece of literary drollery and satire...
...Maurice Schwartz has had years of good work in the theatre (with many better plays than "Yoshe Kalb"— "Anathema" and Bloody Laughter," to name two at random), and he deserves the success the present ballyhoo will bring...
...Why cannot folks be content to take things as they are...
...The many Jewish types are effectively shown, in every variety of beard, with natural comic touches— though these at times delay the action...
...and the encomiums of the English press betoken a careless prsise, or a low ebb indeed of Broadway production...
...When ihey awake, George Bernard Shaw and Luigi Pirandello, whose autos have collided on an English road, And themselves in what seem hospital beds...
...Third concert by Manhattan Symphony Sunday, Jan...
...The film is beeing shown continuously from 9 a. in...
...The final scene, of the rabbinical court that is to identify Yoshe, is well done...
...Cameo offers "Math hen in Uniform" at popular prices Continuing its long and distinguished Times Square run, "Mad* chen in Uniform" is current at the RKO-Cameo Theatre...
...At this concert William H Woodin's suite "The Covered Wagon" will be given its first per formance and Paul Stassevitch will play th* Elgar violin concerto, which has not been performed in New York City for many years...
...Too many in thia land labor to make a mountain out of a dunghill...
...all the performance, indeed, though without novelty, is intelligently handled...
...Bang...
...But one ignorant of Yiddish will .be more than usually bored at the current production of the Yiddish Art Theatre...
...music runs through the storm scene (which Dido, too, once utilized for a seduction...
...Musical comedies and pictures have been the outlet for Healy's witticisms during the past year...
...All the professional men-in-the-public-eye, Rabbi Wise, Channing Pollock, Morris Guest (the program drags "u" in), hurry to sign their names to letters of recommendation...
...The Royal Neapolitan Trio, and the Seven Trojans...
...But it is only a lunatic asylum, outside of which they collided, a madhouse inhabited by Eve, Cleopatra, Francesca, MenelauB, Helen of Troy, and other manias, including God...
...Yoshe Kalb" is not an easy play for one with but a smattering of Yiddish to follow...
...Better (if you understand Yiddish) go look at "Yoshe Kalb...
...The Balabanow Accordion Five...
...Is the English-speaking stage in this country so impoverished that a well-presented Yiddish melodrama must be hailed as epoch-making...
...Tad HeaJy tops stag* show si Fo> Brooklyn—"Second Hand Wife" film feature Broadway's favorite son, ths internationally known comic Ted Healy, brings a carload of laughs and a stageful of stooges to ths Fox Brooklyn Theatre starting today, in conjunction with the Kathleen Norris story, "Second Hand Wife," on the screen...
...His mad-wag antics on the Fox stage will be displayed locally for the first time during many laugh-less months...
...29, at 9 o'clock...
...Then they know...
...The wit of Shaw, the depth of Pirandello (or is it dullness...
...this is a fit committee from the next world...
...are effectively suggested if not sustained...
...29 The third concert of this season given by the Manhattan Symphon) Orchestra will be held at th< Waldorf-Astoria on Sunday eve ning, Jan...
...What better, exclaim the playwrights, than,, to write a drama for these figures to enact I How the inmates run away with the dress rehearsal, and what is the final fate of Shaw and Pirandello, and whether the audience belongs there too, make the mad movement of this crazed travesty...
...The balance of the program will consist of the Weber overture to "Oberon," Uurrill Phillip's Grotesque Dance for a Projected Ballet, and Wagner's Prelude and Love Death from "Tristan and Isolde...
...even in the present case, "Foolscap" concentrates a gay spoofing and a keen criticism of two important figures in the world theatre today...
...Max Adalbert has the title role and is supported by a large cast of German screen stars, including Kaethe Haack, Max Guelstorff, Hermann Vallentin, Friedricb Kayssler and Paul Otto...
...Following Pirandello's metaphysical querying, Shaw wonders whether they're dead...
...When the woman first approaches the young man, soft music starts to play...
...Look at Hoover—no, don't...
...As a matter of fact, there are a dozen plsys now on the boards as well staged as "Yoshe Kalb," and more subtly...
...In First Popular Price Manhattan Showing at Cameo "Der Hauptmann von Kopenick" ("The Captain of Kopenick") the G,erman comedy drama based on the hilarious incident in 1906 when an ordinary cobbler, disguised in a captain's uniform, arrested the mayor and treasurer of Kopenick, is to be held over for a second week at the Europe Theatre...
...Too many cry "Wolf I Wolf I" Many a simple man has been spoiled by trying to live up to his ballyhoo'd reputation...
...While they laughingly speculate as to their whereabouts, a figure appears at the window, and announces himself: Shakespeare...
...but it has not come to redeem the American theatre...
...BROADWAY BOWS "YOSHE KALB" ("Simpleton Joe") from the novel of I. J, Singer, by Maurice Schwartz...
...and Eduardo Cian-nelli (part-author) is less effective as Pirandello only as the Italian is less familiar...
...A knowledge of German, which helps with philosophical plays, avails little before this panorama of alien ways I and types, among the pious "Chassidic" Jews of Russian and of Austrian Poland...
...The story is carried over its score of years by having four choric interludes, with two faces peering over the shoulders of a man seemingly reading a manuscript, on the dark stage...
...to 11 p. in...
Vol. 15 • January 1933 • No. 3
