Let Socialists Recognize and Use the Power of the Drama
Let Socialists Recognize and Use the Power of the Drama The Week on the Stage By Joseph T. Shipley A CHALLENGE TO YOU It is sometimes hard to be fair. In the face of tricky unfairness, there...
...And walking arguments—however interesting their theme—can hardly hold...
...and the lesson is driven home by another pair the author presents, a couple of whom the woman is decidedly distasteful, but who rules the roost until hubby quite justifiably flies away...
...Phil Rosen directed...
...Returning north, they expect to give a series of dance reciteals on their first visit to Mexico City, showing for the first time their Mystic Persian and Modernisteic dances.—They have just closed a successful season, appearing at Radioe City Music Hall and a lengthy steay at the St...
...At the Cort...
...Roberta" in Brooklyn Screen Premiere at Albee Starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers...
...Shall they have a baby...
...opens today at the Rosy Theatre...
...In the face of tricky unfairness, there is temptation to swing defiantly back...
...187 Broad st...
...51st Street and 8th Avenue, Friday, April 12, at 8 p. m. Eddie Myers and his Continentals will offer their scintillating rhythm for lovers of the dance...
...who 'are interested in the theatre, in all the "public arts," as a social force, who might be asked for advice, and might ultimately aid in the establishment of a professional theatre embodying the point of view here presented...
...Fortunately, -the company gives the play a power that compels the audience's attention...
...As a preliminary to this conference, we are seeking a roll cali of potential power, in the field of the drama...
...WOMEN'S WORDS "THE DOMINANT SEX...
...It Happened m New York" Rozyt New Him Fare "It Happened in New York," the new Universal romantic comedy .with Lyle Talbot, Heather Angel, Gertrude Michael, and Hugh O'Connell...
...There are important decisions to make...
...In New , Haven on April 12, 13, 14 it will be presentaed at the Little Theatre by tehe New Haven Cinema Guild which is sponsored by Prof...
...But I recognized that falsehood and abuse, even, do not ehange merit and truth...
...Managing Director, Zac Freedman, of the Fox has arranged Naimn's Easter Parade of Fashj ions, and George Givot, billed as I "The Greek Ambassador of Good j Will," for the stage part of this ' program...
...The theatre (with its stepson, the cinema) is, perhaps, even more than the school—for it goes on throughout life—a force for education...
...The Mainstreeters" featuring Zeb Carver, Ez Newsome and the "Original One Man Band" of amateur radiohour popularity...
...and Mrs...
...But the battle is but started...
...and her recent marriage to Bramwell Fletcher makes his playing of the husband's role more than usually effective—in the irony of the struggle for mastery...
...Henri Gine, Ruth DeQuincey and Basil Lewis, the eccentric dancing trio and the Dick Wong Troupe of Canton wonder workers are also pr<jminent on the steage entertainment...
...WHAT CAN YOU ANSWER...
...Adapted from the original story by Word Morehouse, New York columnist, and Jean Dalrymple, this story concerns the romantic adventures of a taxiesb driver upon whom a celebrated screen star bestows her unwelcome ' affections...
...is that of Walter C. Kelly...
...Chapayev"" Coming to Connecticut Direct from its twelvth week run on Broadway, the new Soviet tealkie film "Chapayev" will be on exhibition in New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport...
...Opening on January 7th, this Zoe Akins-Edith Wharton play developed, after a somewhat hesitant start, into one of the established successes of the season...
...his idea about promoting his motor alone, in opposition to the big company's, is obviously less intelligent than his wile's...
...towers of Mas Prnf I Q»w»JMiw...
...who is to make them...
...and it is he who brings breath of life into a play of walking arguments...
...Egan's theme, therefore, seems to be that the husband—whether wiser than the wife, or mfcrely more stubborn —should be the boss...
...Irene Dunne sings...
...Shall they live in the city or go back to the farm Dick loves...
...play under the supervision at Guthrie McClintic...
...in frank and full dramatic revelation of existing conditions, and in joint action through the theatre toward cooperation aid that spirit of alert and active intelligence which points the way to a socialized society...
...Just after I had written the comment on Communist plays for last week's issue, my attention was called to a Daily Worker article, belaboring The New Leader for not publishing a letter about the Odets play, "Waiting for Lefty...
...The accompanying vaudeville show at the Albee is headlined by Al Norman, one of Broadway's best-liked dancing comics...
...Organizations wishing blocks of cutrate tickets may write to the New Leader business department...
...Shall Dick keep his work by himself, or sell out to the company...
...II Amateurs: Members of present or past groups, in any capacity, ready to cooperate, perhaps by continuing the activity of present groups or joining these in a league of associated little theatres, interchanging .ideas and plays and experiences, or by joining in some larger enterprise, such as the establishment of a professional theatre, or tke organization of a great city-wide pageant, which might be carried into other communities of the la-vi...
...yet by implication we were deceitful villains for not giving it our columns —from which too much of our own material must be excluded: For a moment I had a natural impulse to change my civil words...
...they have found it a success, and therefore have legally married—much to their landlord's joy...
...Rialto Theatre Service Clnb To Hold Dance April 1 2th The Rialto Theatre Service Club, whose members compose the theatre's uniformed staff, will hold its first annual dance and entertainment at the Knights of Columbus Hotel...
...The film was directed by Alan Crosland and the screen {adaptation is by Rian Jame> and Seton I. Miller...
...Yet she is presented as a.bad woman (in this sense all women are bad...
...We want, according *» the classes below, nsme, address (of individuals and groups) and brief indication of what you have done and are willing to do...
...It seems to be the outstanding matinee attraction of the year and Harry Moses, the producer, is already announcing a special Memorial Day afternoon performance by means of large placards outside the theatre...
...his farm is a dream out of boyhood, on which he will probably develop a terrible mess of financial troubles, however his vegetables grow...
...Jack Holt on Fox Brooklyn Screen Fashion Show Appears on Stage Jack Holt is seen on the screen at Fabian's Fox Brooklyn Theatre this week in "Unwelcome Stranger," Columbia's newest comedy-drama, in which Mr* Holt starts his nineteenth year as a star in pictures...
...unscrupulously using every device in her power to dominate her man...
...the cast included Ralph Morgan, BradleyPage, Frankie Darro, Mary MacLaren, Claudel Kaye, Don Chapman, and Sam McDaniel...
...Jo Mielzinor dosigned the settings...
...And there is no denying that the dramatisation of life, of the social situation, can be more fully stressed in the Socialist movement, that the power of the drama, as a social weapon, is all too sadly neglected, left to the two extremes of violence, .to the fascist and the Communist dictatorship groups...
...Indeed, it is only the pressure of civij dissension thst has delayed such action...
...The New Leader is a weakly, crowded, cramped...
...Moritz's Continental Grill Room...
...The position of master of ceremonies will be handled by Arthur Page, formerly of George White's "Scandals," who will entertain between numbers with songs and chatter...
...galo Gillmore, Hugh Williams, Charles Waldron, Moffat Johnston...
...But, though he has the smaller role of the henpecked husband, it is A. E. Matthews we wait to see...
...HI Others Interested: Persons without experience, but who feel the value and the need of this expression, of the dramatic avenue of social and Socialist consciousness, and who are ready to cooperate, as workers or audiencebuilders, in the various phases of the enterprise and the organized movement...
...Horry Moses Presents 100th Performance©* "Old Moid" Judith Anderson and Helen Menken gave their one-hundredth performance* in "The' Old Maid" last Monday evening at the Empire Theatre...
...J^m Katharine Cornell will present John van Druten's drama...
...SEND IN YOUR DATA I Professionals: Workers in the theatre or the motion pictures- and allied arts (producers, actors, dramatists, designers, stage-hands, etc...
...RKO Albee Theatre brings to Brooklyn a picturization of "Robertea," the musical play which has .been making theatrical history on the stage...
...Jerome Davis, Mr...
...A large and versatile cast of favorites headed by Randolph Scott, Helen Westley, Victor Varconi, Claire Dodd and LuisAlberni supports the three stars of "Roberta...
...j "Chapayev" has been hailed by Eisenstein, Pudovkin and Dovjenko as being "greater than Potemkin...
...Burgess Meredith, Brenda Forbes, John Emery, Leslie Bingham, Alice Bel more Cliff e, Arthur Chatlerton, and Katharine Cornell...
...By Michael Egan...
...SEND IN YOUR NAME to the Dramatic Editor of The New Leader, 7 East 15th Street, New York City...
...We feel, somehow, that Dick is the less practical creature...
...The second feature is "I'll Love You Always," with Nancy Carroll sad Georre Murohv...
...Overmatter—Leader—27 Fowler and Tantara Sail Fowler and Tamara who are famous for'their terpsichorean exploits in capitals of the World, sail today for South American ports where they fill conceart engagements...
...New Double Feature till at ? Brooklyn Strand The newest team of friendly j enemies to come to the screen...
...and the audience is therefore supposed to rejoice when Dick is in control at the end and wifie gives every indication (not to him, but he happily overhears) of her intention -to submit...
...Auriol Lee directed the...
...Ellsworth Huntington of the Department of Applied Psychology, Prof...
...Many a play that's a hit on one side of the ocean is of more doubtful popularity on the other...
...Jack Crawford, Arthur Meiznear and others...
...The Virginia Judge, and Andy Clyde, the popular comedian, featured together in "McFaden's Flats" at the Brooklyn Strand Theatre as part of a double feature program...
...this letter was two pages of single-spaced typing...
...The cast av composed of these players: Mar...
...Flowers of the Forest,'* for the first time in New York City on Monday night, April 8th, in the Martin Beck Theatre...
...but these are intercepted and delayed by long stretches of dialogue, in which the family quarrel is aired before us until—like the family wash—it grows threatbare and a bit brown at Hie edges...
...What are we permitting it to teach...
...It is the hope of a number of those who regret the waste of the powers of the theatre, at some time soon to call a conference, to consider in what ways we may more effectively make of the theatre a social force, without the bias of capitalist or Communist dogmatism and bigotry...
...and "The Dominant Sex" seems to have grown talkative on its ocean journey...
...Dick and Angela have tried trial marriage—that is, after a few other sex-trials...
...Helen Chandler makes the role of Angela less unpleasant than might otherwise be the case...
...Chapayev" will have its New Haven premiere on Friday night, the twelvth, at 7 P. M. On the 16, 17, 18of April "Chapayev" will be shown at the Hartford Women's Club...
...Under what compulsion is a paper, to publish ovary angry word sent to it...
...What use are Socialists making of the opportunities the theatre affords...
...There are in the play, which is a picture of the old and apparently eternal struggle of the sexes, even in love—many moments of delight, especially when A. E. Matthews is onstage...
Vol. 18 • April 1935 • No. 14
