LABOR COLOR-LINE CUT IN VIVID "STEVEDORE"
Labor Color-Line Cut in Vivid "Stevedore" The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley Theatre Union Wins Again "STEVEDORE," by Paul Peters and George Sklar. Second Theatre Union Production,...
...This year Sanford will have Meyer Davis, the "Maestro of Jazz," associated with him in the production of this novel attraction...
...He has already started casting for this new edition, which will feature a prominent Broadway cast of 60 peftple, including his personally selected Sanfordolls...
...At Brooklyn Paramount "Double Door," the successful stage play, has been transcribed into a thrilling cinema, and will be offereM today at the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre, together with a stage show featuring Ethel Merman and a galaxy of stars...
...It also has flaws, being in some respects crudelyi put together, and not always—as when the policeman steps behind the counter to reach the bottle, instead of the girl's handing it to him, which was natural and would have prevented the shooting—does ,it convince us that it is real...
...and in "Stevedore" it has again produced a play no one should miss...
...A program-note declares that "some of the scenes in this play are based on incidents which occurred during the attdcks on Negroes in East St, Louis in 1919, the Chicago attacks in 1919, the Dr...
...The screen play is an adaptation of the novel "Promenade Deck" by Ishbel Ross...
...Build the Socialjet Party and get subs for The New Leader to help build it...
...come to Broadway on Tuesday evening, May 8. Sidney Harmon and James R. Ullman, who ventured Hoto the medical profession as co-producers of "Men in White," the season's longest-running play, at the Broadhurst, are sponsoring this comedy of the squared circle by Lynn Root and,;;,Harry Clark at the Cort Theatre...
...and "Stevedore" is a gripping picture of how laborers down South are beginning to realize that the color-line is less fundamental a dividing mark than that between worker and capitalist...
...Bobby Seeford Readies Third IcJIHon erf "Sbowooot levee" Abosnrd tfce Bme^oeoef' _ Bobby "Sanford, the young Broadway producer,'who during the past two years gave New York theatregoers a new vogue in summer entertainment by the presentation of his "Showboat "Revue," announces that he has just completed negotiations with James* A. Kenyon, of the Hudson TUver Dayi Line, to present the third edition of hia revue aboard the floating theatre "Buccaneer...
...Then we should have no deep-eyed villains, but a scene in which all elements are the inevitable result , of a system: therefore we should work against, not the individual villains, but the system that makes them inevitable...
...The Milky Way" to Open at the Cart Theatre May 8th A >iew prise fight play, "The Milky Way," is scheduled to...
...Charles Starrett has the masculine role opposite Sally...
...Pass it on to your neighbor...
...mlere art Pox Brooklyn—New Oemooshy Stooe Show "9 on a Honeymoon," Fox Film's new romance, will have its "World premiere • at the Fox Brooklyn Theatre today...
...Nor Is the supposed Negro attempt at rape as closely linked with the labor trouble, in the texture of the play, as one might desire...
...Which means education instead of shotguns, This is perhaps too much to expect of the average play—there Were 2,000 years between Sophocles and Shakespeare...
...Leo Donnelly, Brian Donlevy and Hugh O'Connell have the featured roles...
...loss Honeymoon" Hat Pro...
...A Meyer Davis orchestra will furnish the music for the revue and also for the dancing on the Day Line steamers preceding and following the Showboat performances...
...The revue will also feature an entire new score, original sketches by prominent authors and specially designed costumes for this new edition...
...Phil Duey, young American baritone radio entertainer, headlines" the Alexander Oumansky production, "The Heat Wave Revue...
...While this sounds a good deal like a listing of a lot of similar race and labor troubles in order to win sympathy for the play, there is no doubt that the action in no way goes beyond the range of truth...
...and how the cry of "rape," even falsely raised, is an easy screen for breaking up any effort of the Negroes to better their condition...
...Second Theatre Union Production, at the Civic Repertory Theatre...
...Jack Starnes and his troupe of entertainers, .and the Fox Melody Masters are in the stage revue...
...And—while one is indicating defects—one continues to feel, in the Southern plays of lite, that a good dramatist would get beneath even the characters toward whom the audience is hostile, and show that they, too, are the product and the victims of their environment...
...Sweet case in Detroit, the Begalusa lumber strike, the New Orleans dock strikes, the Colorado Bathing Beach fight, the attack on the Camp Hill, Ala., sharecropper, and the similar attack at Tuscaloosa, Ala...
...Bert Frohman, master of ceremonies...
...Excellently staged and well acted, "Steve3ore," the second presentation of the Theatre Union, continues the effective work of "Peace on Earth" with a gripping study of the problems of labor and color along our Southern docks...
...And that 'the play has power...
...The temporary victory of the Negro group, with which the play ends— though at the cost of leaders' lives —gives the audience no doubt as to the white triumph...
...Sally" Eilers has the featured role...
...and emphasizes the fact that force, begetting force, leads to no near solution, In the movement toward a true theatre of the people, the Theatre Union is taking long strides in the right direction...
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...Zasu Pitts, Henrietta Crosman, Irene Hervey and John Mack Brown complete the cast...
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Vol. 17 • May 1934 • No. 60
