History In The Making -In Film Form -At the Embassy
History In The Making -In Film Form -At the Embassy Newareel Theatre Offers in Timely Events of the Day in Weekly Change of Program From an experi-ne»t to an in Jt-tbn ia thraa years. Thi...
...In 1924, his "They Knew What They Wanted", won the coveted Pulitzer Prize...
...This ia particr"7 Jw.sf many of the subjects IrMB "reign lands...
...Her ranch also has been robbed of its stock and the fact that it seemingly appears as if her brother is in league with the thieves complicates her budding romance with Tom...
...Without - so much as hinting that the reactions of his characters have any general bearing on human conduct, never concerned over the moral or social consequences of what is happening on the stage, he directs.his attention and that of his audience to the characters themselves...
...a™* many of the news items ™wn at tha Embassy News Reel "eater are shown nowhere else in tte United States...
...Bela Lugosl, David Manners and Adrienne Ames are seen at the head of a large cast of players...
...To these sufferers of patriotic nostalgia, it offers a breath of the homeland in scenes sound and talk of their native heath...
...But, to quote Goethe, insofar as any picture is a complete and perfect picture of the thing it portrays, so far is it a picture of all things...
...Then the Theater Guild produced "They Knew What They Wanted," and Howard took his place among the playwrights...
...The general public as well as members of the church are invited...
...1560 JJzJr*,, the first film house in ^United States to make the darJ MBturo of preaentlnf an all Mwsreel program...
...In short, from the very "specialness" of the characters and stories he presents, a sort of general overtone of universal truth is derived...
...On the stage, Tarzan, the Human Ape, will be one of the attractions, and his engagement at this theater will be his first appearance In this country...
...Thi , "2hY u the history of the EmgJ'Nrwi Real Theater...
...His first professional production was in 1921, a romantic play about the Guelphs and Ghibellines, called "Swords...
...In New York, this cinematic Melting Pot, the Embassy News Reel Theater, performs a number ef beneficial services for those who sre homesick for the fatherland...
...In his adaptation of Rene Fauchois's "Prenez Garde a la Peinture," which Gilbert Miller is now presenting under the title of "The Late Christopher Bean," he shows himself again a virile craftsman and a subtle painter of characters...
...Both are trenchant plays for the mature and the unafraid...
...His "Late Christopher Bean*' a Current Hit Sidney Howard, author of "The Late Christopher Bean," in which Gilbert Miller ia presenting Pauline Lord at Henry Miller's Theater, has, during the ten years that he has been writing plays, become one of the four or five leading playwrights in America...
...The Embassy News Reel Theater is, theretore, truly an international house, equipped with the transatlantic television which gives to the wanderer or native son yearning for his home-country a glimpse of the fatherland, a place where distance is annihilated and one seems to be in hit native country, city or town, ernong his folk again as he watches familiar scenes or hears his native tongue or perchance glimpses the t»ett of his land, living again the bfe ef his youth...
...Quite justly, he ignores any abstract idea that the spectator may derive from the play...
...In this play, a hearty, lusty comedy which moves deftly on the edges of tragedy, Howard ahowed an attitude toward playwriting which has since become his outstanding characteristic...
...Lucky Sam McCarver" followed "They Knew What They Wanted...
...Leontine Sagin, a woman, directed the picture aa her first directorial effort...
...It was not a popular success, but it remains one of the finest pUys he has ever written...
...Here are people, moving through a scene, and he is concerned with making them move as people, and not as ideas...
...The Silver Cord," a splendidly tart and spurring play, presents the parental protective impulse which turns some over-doting mothers into dragons who mount guard over their offspring with a forbidding and ferocious tenderness that blights the lives and the atrophies the wills of the children...
...We feel, in Howard's plays, however unconsciously, that impact of truth which any complete picture gives us...
...Holmes to Sneak on "We, the People" John Haynes Holmes, minister of the Community Church, will review, "We, the People," Elmer Rice's play of America, which is now running at the Empire Teater, at his regular Sunday night service, held Sunday evening, February 15th at the Community Church Center, 550 West 110th St...
...The Death Kiss" First Time in Brooklyn at the Fox— Tarsan, the Ape, oa Stage "The Death Kiss," mystery story, will be the feature shown at the Fox Brooklyn Theater, beginning today...
...Here history passes in review, the momentous with the foibles...
...Since 1926, Sidney Howard has been busy with a series ef plays and motion pictures...
...Its characters are all motion picture playera and studio executives, who, in the story, are given the opportunity of enacting characters with whom they come Into daily contact...
...H. D. 'Madchen fa Uniform' Continues at the Cameo "Madchen in Uniform" will remain for a fourth week at popular prices at the Cameo Theatre...
...Operated by Movietonews, Inc., -ntoctn of newsreeli throughout .Eworld, the Embaaay is in the JriM, poaition of being able Z^ij to preaent a pictorial ac MBBt ef the interesting events and l^^gBtngs from every nation on the globe...
...The locale of this picture is the studio—and with the exception of one or two sequences, its action is confined ot the studio buildings...
...Herthe Thiele plays the part of the young girl, and Dorathea Wieck interprets ths role of the sympathetic teacher...
...The Silver Cord" and "Ned McCobb's Daughter," successes both, were presented about a year later, in November and December of 1026...
...Terror Trail" is a story written by Grant Taylor, magazine writer, and brought to the screen by Jack Cunningham...
...Sidney Howard, Author of Fine Plays...
...Ltt hunger marchers stalk in tendon, Fascists celebrate in Italy, Hitlerites strut In Germany, rebellion churn Spain, a vessel burn at sea, war break out in the Orient, sa earthquake destroy a city, or anything else from a baby parade to a ski-jump be worth photographing, and in the shortest possible lapse of time the event will be shown on the Embassy News Reel Theater's screen...
...In this he plays a lone hand in the task of capturing a gang of bandits who have been plundering a small Arizona town, causing havoc and terror to the inhabitants—among them lovely Norma Laird...
...It is in no figurative sense that the claim has been made that from a seat at the Embassy one may actually witness, from week to week, the amazing panorama that is presented by modern civilization...
...At the Original Roxy Tom Mix comes to the Roxy Theater, 50th Street and 7th Ave., starting today, with his newest picture, "Terror Trail...
...The stage production, "Jungles," also includes Miss Mabel Starr and Her Trained Lions and Captain Schulz' Bears...
...i Since then he has written, in addition to numerous adaptations and motion pictures, "The Silver Cord," "Ned McCobb's Daughter," "Lucky Sam McCarver," and many other plays...
...Madchen in Uniform" is a sensitive story of a young girl and her conflict with a strict autocratic school of Prussia...
Vol. 15 • February 1933 • No. 6
