The Green Bay Tree: A Fine Fertile Drama
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
"The Green Bay Tree": A Fine Fertile Drama The Week on the Stage Ry Joseph T. Shipley FRUITFUL STERILITY "THE GREEN BAY TREE," By Mordaut Shairp. At the Cort. By a juxtaposition of extremes...
...even after Dulcimer's death the lad is held on his pathway...
...The action of the play is projected into the future, when another world war is brewing...
...Dulcimer himself (the exquisite creation ol the author and James Dale) is an esthete, somewhat recalling the Daffodil...
...Double Bill at Jefferson "Bombshell," with Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, and "The Kennel Murder Case," with William Powell, will be the two features at the RKO Jefferson Theatre, starting Saturday, to Tuesday, November 28th...
...The revue is in two acts and twenty-three scenes and has a book by Nat N. Dorfman, Mann Holiner and Lew Leslie...
...Kola and Dunya, Monte Carlo dance team...
...but in the meantime cultivated with hot-house care, so choice as to be sterile, continuing its kind only by taking young shoots and transplanting them, flourishing like a green bay tree, but without seed...
...Charles LeMaire designed the costumes and Mabel A. Buell created the settings...
...The Green Bay Tree": A Fine Fertile Drama The Week on the Stage Ry Joseph T. Shipley FRUITFUL STERILITY "THE GREEN BAY TREE," By Mordaut Shairp...
...Leonora Yale (Jill Esmond) and "Isaiah" Owen (0...
...29 Lew Leslie's "Blackbirds" will open at the Apollo Theatre on Wednesday evening, November 29...
...The lyrics and music are by Mann Holiner, Alberta Nichols, Joseph Young, Ned Washington and Victor Young...
...The play was written by George Sklar and Albert Maltz, authors of "Merry-Go-Round...
...Haywire" Due at Bijou On Thursday evening, November 30th, Richard Aldrich and Alfred de Liagre, Jr., producers of "Three Cornered Moon," will present at the Bjiou Theatre a new comedy called "Haywire," written by Kennon Jewett and staged by Mr...
...de Liagre...
...The leading role, that of a university professor who becomes involved in the fight to prevent another war, will be played by Robert Keith, best remembered for his roles in "The Great Gold Brown" and "Beyond the Horizon...
...Florence Klug, comedienne, Anita Kerida, of Madrid, and Judy Brooks...
...With the assistance of Trump (Leo G. Carroll makes the part more than a mere butler's role) Julian will move on his bachelor way, one of the excess flowers of civilization the next convulsion (as Miss Yale tells Dulcy) will wipe out of existence...
...By a juxtaposition of extremes that has little resemblance to life, Mordaunt Shairp—aided by an excellent cast—has given enough reality to his eerie figures to interest us enormously in their fate...
...of "The Yellow Jacket", he acts as fairy god-father to Julian (Lawrence Oliver...
...Moscow Art Stars at International Music Hall Irene Kounavskaya and Piotr Lapouhin, formerly stars of the Moscow Art Theatre and the Chauve Souris, will be featured in the continental revue at the International Music Hall, which opens today in its new home, the former Little Club, 216 West 41th Street Others appearing with the Russian team will be Margarite Heller and Louis Hegedus, of Budapest...
...29 The Theatre Union, organized a year ago by a group of playwrights, novelists, directors, and theatre lovers, will present its first play, "Peace on Earth," at the Civic Repertory Theatre on November 29th...
...Among the sponsors of the Theatre Union are Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Vincent Benet, H. W. L. Dana, John dos Passoi, Waldo Frank, Sidney Howard, Morrie Ryskind, Mary Heaton Voi.se, Edmund Wilson, Blanche Yurka, and Elmer Rice...
...but the hold of the things he has been taught to value proves too great...
...The theatre has been entirely renovated, with the latest modern improvements, including a new sound system which makes the sound film audible in every part of the house...
...The struggle comes when Dulcimer announces that, on the day of Julian's marriage to Leonora (veterinary surgeon, no less...
...The house will show movie hits at popular prices, with a continuous performance from 8 a. m. to 2:30 a. m., and a change of program every Monday, Wednesday and Friday...
...But in the minds of the audience it takes deep root...
...Through a well developed plot the authors show the effects of war hysteria on many different types and classes of Americans...
...Others who play parts are Clyde Franklin, Millicent Green, Carolyn Newcomb, Ethel Intropidi, Halliam Bosworth, Frank Tweddell, and Walter Vonnegut...
...The Hall will also present the Mogiloff Balalaika Ensemble...
...Tom Powers is playing the leading role and the others in the cast will be Shirley Booth, Elizabeth Love, Harold Vermilyea and James Spottswood...
...the boy makes a valiant effort to study toward the earning of his own living...
...Lew Leslie's "Blackbirds" Opens at the Apollo Nov...
...Sam H. Harris Theatre to Offer Popular Price Programs The Sam H. Harris Theatre has changed its policy...
...his allowance stops...
...who is the son of Owen, but is brought up by Dulcimer to be good for no practical purpose, yet to appreciate all the beauty that for-granted wealth can bring...
...P. Heggie) represent what Dulcimer pictures as most of human kind, reaching toward ideals and then flapping down to blunt reality...
...PEACE ON EARTH"—THEATRE UNION'S FIRST PLAY TO OPEN AT CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE NOV...
...It is in thirty scenes and has seventy-two speaking parts...
Vol. 16 • November 1933 • No. 22
