Edith Evans Excellent in "Evensong" at The Selwyn
Edith Evans Excellent in "Evensong" at The Selwyn The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley UNEVE*" BONO "EVENSONG." By Edward Knnbloeh and Beverley Nicholi (from the latter't novel). At the...
...But Calv...
...Edward Childs Carpenter, Irving Caesar and Sigmund Romberg are respectively responsible for the book, lyrics and music of "Melody...
...but no excuse is needed for B. M. Steigman's "The Unconquerable Tristan" (Macmlllan, $3...
...Radio City Music HaU Has John Barry-more in "Topaze" The customary thousands of film fans who crowd the Radio City Music Hall will have their chance of seeing John Barrymore in "Topaze," the film version of Maurice Pagnol's play, which Radio Pictures brings to the screen after the play's notable success in London, Paris and New York...
...he did not moralize it...
...and there is bravery, as well as folly, in the final gesture that renounce safety for furthev seasons of song...
...The Radio City Music Hall News is on the bill...
...Phyllis Barry enacts the leading feminine role...
...No Beer...
...and the evening glow that gives a faint radiance to "Evensong" is moonshine...
...The drama needs this, too...
...Read "The Growth of the Soil" and "The Peasants...
...The volume of Mr...
...The rivalries of the artists' room at the opera have less body than the flutterings of moths in a summer storm...
...Supplementing the feature film will be the first motion picture theater engagement of the irrepressible comedian—Ed Wynn— who comes to the Capitol's stage with his "Laugh Parade" with cast of CO...
...Workers' Laboratory Theatre Opens Season of Radical Drama Two plays, a mass chant, and a lively dance make up the first program of the Workei*' Laboratory Theater of Chicago February 10th, at Lincoln Center...
...and Lynn Riggs, and the in oest-under-the-haycock school, including O'Neill himself, do not make their sex "native" by setting its aberrations in Missouri...
...But those who like good actinic will find the play but little hinders their enjoyment...
...The Workera' Laboratory Theater is a subsidiary branch of the Chicago Workers' Theater...
...George White supervised the entire production...
...Second, that O'Neill, rebel as he tries to be, "has fumbled and floundered in every direction in an attempt to find truth and free it from its fetters...
...It was the New York middle-class that permitted "Hamlit" to play when it was called "Filial Piety," or "A Moral and Instructive Tale as Exemplified in the History of the Prince of Denmark...
...SIGN OF THE CROSS,' 'DESERT SONG' AT BROOKLYN PARAMOUNT In announcing the show starting today, the Brooklyn Paramount Theater heralds the combination of "The Sign of the Cross" on the screen and "The Desert Song" on the atage as one o' the biggest shows ever presented at that theater...
...The sections of the book — "Minna," "Mathilde," "Cosima"—indicate the deep influence of women upon Wagner...
...The dramas of Sidney Howard and Philip Barry are traditional (therefore "English") in form...
...What the joint playwrights have omitted is a world in which all this occurs...
...Publishers use such occasions for launching books...
...Schwab and Mandol's musical romance, "The Desert Song," offers the stage support of the entertainment program...
...Bobby Connolly staged the musical numbers, Joseph Urban designed the settings, and Charles LeMaire created the costumes...
...Another recent book ("The Liberation of American Literature," by V. F. Calverton, Scribiiers, $3.75—which James Oneal has thoroughly analyzed from the Marxian point of view) makes a few points on the drama I wish to discuss...
...But, disagree though one occasionally may, the book is a mine of information...
...rotn does not press the point that O'Neill's failure, beyond its personal cause, is due to his inability to seek outside of capitalism for a remedy: he excoriates the system, then would give it patches and a crutch...
...Lewisohn reminds us that Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize because he was-(save for the Socialist Upton Sinclair) the most anti-American of our prominent writers...
...Baba, don't cry for the moon," sang Pierrot once...
...Here, with the easy flow of good fiction, is traced the life of this romantic and revolutionary, this lover and genius, who has given music its greatest impetus since Beethoven, and is probably the most popular of great composers...
...it is typical ruling-class hypocrisy: pleasure, not profundity, is the goal...
...I agree with two other points about the drama, in this richly packed volume...
...At the Selwyn...
...In addition to the large company of principals there is a contingent of fifty George White beauties...
...DRAMA AND MUSIC IN PRINT Next Monday marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Wagner, rounding his allotted threescore and ten...
...It is interesting, in the light of Ludwig Lewisohn's flailing of the Puritans, to have Calverton point out tha...
...the tempest of Baba Letoile, the Spanish fury, is as unreal as her name —less pretentions, but no less manufactured out of the desire of the moth for the star...
...There is good foil for her, too, in ,the nelce whose youth she would hold close, drawing a factitious sustenance from that young strength...
...And Barnum, who liked to fool the public, called his New York Theater (1845) a "Moral Lecture Room...
...The cast also includes Rosco Ates, John Miljan, Henry Armetta, Edward Brophy, Sidney Bracy, Charles Dunbar, James Donlan, and Al Jackson...
...Featured in the cast of more than one hundred are Evelyn Herbert, Everett Marshall, Walter Woolf, Jeanne Aubert, Hal Skelly, George Houston, Ina Ray, Vivian Fay, Louise Kirtland, Victor Morley and others...
...It presents plays dealing with the life of the masses and with the movement for social change...
...The Sign of the Cross," Paramount's dramatic spectacle produced under the direction of Cecile B. DeMille, features Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton and Claudette Colbert...
...First, that the toleration of burlesque and suggestive musical comedy, while sincere studies of life's problems are studied, cannot be called puritan...
...at least the Puritan closed the theater...
...Comedy Week at Capitol That comedy pair, Buster Keaton and Jimmy (Schnoczle) Durante, make their latest co-starring appearance on the Capitol Theater's screen for the week beginning today in "What...
...An interesting stage ahow, which includes Amos V Andy, York and King, the tintype comics, among its features, surrounds the feature picture...
...And it must not be forgotten that Calverton, even when one disputes the placing of his emphasis, continues to emphasize the sociological approach to literature...
...Calverton is caught by his 'ook's title into too great a hailing of "American" works...
...and Edith Evans (last seaeon's Florence Nightingale) gives reality to the opera stsr whose voice is paasing with her prime...
...Steigman leaves the genius still iyond reach, but makes the man surprisingly real...
...The orchestra will be under the direction of Al Goodman...
...Melody" Due Tuesday at the Casino Theatre George White yesterday selected the Casino Theatre as the Broadway home of his newest musical production, "Melody," which will be unfurled for its premiere performance on Monday evening", February 13...
...indeed, out of his operas as they grew, i.nd out of his loves, the poet-composer seemed to fashion a world wherein he dwelled, save from the pricks of real life, glorious—and alone...
...Yet he won faithful followers in all lands, and no more devoted slave than Cosima who, until her death in 1930, reigned over the Wagner festivals at Bayreuth...
...a satire- on the current beer contro versy...
...The effort of an aging man to cling to the last shreds of a vanishing youth is a stock subject, yet always touching in competent hands...
Vol. 15 • February 1933 • No. 6
